# What's the silliest thing you've chipped a tooth on? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 22, 2003, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566 "2003-06-22T10:41:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Captain\_Gutgore\_Blooddrink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Captain\_Gutgore\_Blooddrink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Gutgore_Blooddrink)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/21 "2003-06-22T18:34:43Z")
Opening a beer bottle when no bottle opener was around. After that, I learned the lighter trick. ---
**Author:** ![Dragonstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@Dragonstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonstar)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/22 "2003-06-22T19:27:52Z")
Pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/23 "2003-06-22T19:39:01Z")
I also broke a molar in half eating pizza. The front half of the tooth got stuck in the pizza, the back half fell out the next day. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/24 "2003-06-22T19:45:57Z")
Regina You’ve described my popcorn event. And just this week we ate at a little meat and three place and I was about to get into a nice big pork chop when I had that crunch thing that’s gotten familiar by now. Fortunately it wasn’t a chipped tooth this time, just felt like it. To add to the drama I had just gotten my replacement crown for the popcorn tooth a few days before! I pulled out a filling once eating a Sugar Daddy. That’s a real thrill to bite down on a filling. And you know those little candy hearts you get at Valentine’s? Had a mouthful, chomping away and CRACK! Years ago now. My mouth’s only got a few of the original starters, but at least there’s something in every slot. Even wisdoms which have yet to give me any trouble – until I post this… ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/25 "2003-06-22T20:06:41Z")
Chipped tooth? A Burger King Whopper. I lost a tooth, however, while chewing on a flip-flop when I was a wee lad. Those were the days. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/26 "2003-06-22T20:27:34Z")
I chipped my front tooth on a supermarket freezer, after fainting (and falling) while shopping on a very hot Christmas Eve. The manager was sure I had slipped on something, and was mortified I was going to sue him. 😃 The worst thing though was trying to find a dentist still open. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/27 "2003-06-22T21:11:23Z")
I haven’t chipped a tooth but, as a kid, I had a habit of crunching grains of sand with my front teeth. As a result the edges of my teeth got fragile, and one day a tiny portion of one just fell off. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/28 "2003-06-22T21:15:56Z")
I cracked a tooth on an olive pit while at lunch during a job interview. I was in agony the rest of the interview. To add insult to injury, I didn’t get the job. I was also involved in a kissing accident, but the person who wound up with a chipped tooth wasn’t me. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/29 "2003-06-22T21:37:25Z")
Pepperoni Pizza…and nope, there was nothing in it, and nope it wasn’t burnt or anything… ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/30 "2003-06-22T22:23:44Z")
Charms blow-pop. Three times. Same tooth. No more blow pops for me. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/31 "2003-06-23T01:40:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lawoot \* > \*\*A bagel. And not even a REAL one, but one of those supermarket ‘bagels’. \*\* Me too. Well, not a supermarket one, but a big, puffy Noah’s bagel. I bit down on something hard and went “Damn! Feels like that was a pebble! I could have broken a tooth!” So I fished it out of my mouth and…“Oh Christ–it _ **is** _ a tooth!!! That’s disgusting, how the hell did somebody’s tooth get in…hey, wait a minute…I didn’t used to be missing half a molar…” I also had the same thing happen while eating a slice of cheese pizza, but that time I could tell it was my own tooth breaking. In both cases they were teeth with old fillings that had gone rotten underneath. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/32 "2003-06-23T02:01:32Z")
A clown. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/33 "2003-06-23T02:38:05Z")
The handlebars of my bike… not so silly. While jumping over other kids on our bikes (pretending we were Evel Kneivel)… very silly. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/34 "2003-06-23T02:41:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Washte \* > \*\*Hubby chipped half his tooth off whilst eating mashed 'tato… \*\* I did EXACTLY the same thing. Eating some mashed potatoes, the tooth was fine before I started eating them, didn’t even know it happend, but afterwords, I had a molar that was as sharp as a knife. I’m really surprised I didn’t cut my tongue on it before I made it to the dentist. Now I have a tooth with a GIANT silver filling in it (covers the whole top of what’s left of the tooth) and I even had to have her file it down a couple of times to round off the edge. ---
**Author:** ![Shirty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Shirty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirty)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/35 "2003-06-23T02:50:07Z")
Another tooth ---
**Author:** ![herownself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8baadc/32.png) [@herownself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herownself)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/36 "2003-06-23T03:49:54Z")
My [rubber chicken keyring](http://www.mcphee.com/bigindex/current/09608.html). ---
**Author:** ![lorinada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5e925/32.png) [@lorinada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorinada)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/37 "2003-06-23T04:15:18Z")
The first broken tooth was from a Runt, which is not really silly considering how damn hard those things are (but so good!). The second one was a flabbergaster since it was on a McDonald’s hash brown. I really don’t eat as much junk food as it would seem from this post. I always fear I’ll break one on a carrot since I like them raw but so far I’ve been lucky. ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/38 "2003-06-23T04:16:10Z")
I’m not sure how old I was–old enough to have permanent teeth but young enough to still play tag-type games. I crashed into the side of the toilet bowl while chasing my brother. Chipped one of my “two front teeth.” It’s still chipped. I’m told that it’s kinda cute. I have my doubts. But it doesn’t hurt, so I’ve never capped it. ---
**Author:** ![Romola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@Romola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Romola)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/39 "2003-06-23T04:32:51Z")
My violin case + lollipop = chipped front tooth. Poor thing didn’t stand a chance. A minivan stopped short in front of the car I was being driven to school in. My head slammed into my case but I thought I was ok, until I got to school and put the lolli in my mouth and piece of one of my incisors came off. I had to have it filed down and now my smile looks kind of off. ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/40 "2003-06-23T04:46:59Z")
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