# What body parts grow back? Not nipples, right? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 20, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-body-parts-grow-back-not-nipples-right/536721 "2010-04-20T06:43:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-body-parts-grow-back-not-nipples-right/536721/81 "2012-02-01T14:30:19Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > A friend of mine said her tonsils grew back - she had them removed at 5 or so but at age 18 was told by a doctor that she had a perfectly normal set of tonsils. > I have heard somthing along this line before - is it truth or myth? That happened to me too! Well, them being taken out at 5 and regrowing completely, but it was noticed well before I turned 18. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-body-parts-grow-back-not-nipples-right/536721/82 "2012-02-01T15:33:52Z")
> [@goodie](#): > > Also, I’m forced to ask…what else can you do with that salamander mustache? You would, no doubt, become quite the lothario with very little effort if you were blessed with amphibian lips. You could fall asleep while engaged in cunnilingus, letting your sali-stache do all the work, and then let it hold the cigarette to your lips for your post-coital smoke. Very cosmopolitan! ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-body-parts-grow-back-not-nipples-right/536721/83 "2012-02-01T18:30:06Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Don’t get your nipples in a twist? +1 Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-body-parts-grow-back-not-nipples-right/536721.md?page=4)