# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/61 "2003-06-24T17:07:36Z")
A water ski. I was 9. I was behind our boat (showing off, yes, I admit it), and tried to lean over and touch the water. The ski slipped out from under me, off my feet, into the air, and came down right…on…my…mouth. OUCHY!! I now have very nice caps on my front top teeth. ---
**Author:** ![juji\_mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@juji\_mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/juji_mojo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/62 "2003-06-24T17:15:13Z")
Front teeth originally cracked on monkey bars when I was about 9 and very awkward. A little on the chubby side not graceful and disproptionately large shouldersand short arms. I was trying to the same trick that my four year old brother with a (even then) gymnast’s body had done swinging through them. And then as now I couldnt keep my mouth shut and bashed each of my front teeth into triangles… Comme ca. l/ \l Still trying to affort permanent caps not just those “white” fillings. I also cracked a molar eating some fruit salad … it was on the pineapple chunk I think that I lost it. I broke three brackets for my braces eating a Scor bar in the cold. (Orthodontist yelled at me for three consecutive visits on that one) ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/63 "2003-06-24T17:16:51Z")
Pizza? Chips? I laugh. My father once chipped a tooth on a piece of sliced cheese. His father once chipped a tooth on a piece of toast. ---
**Author:** ![Godfrey\_Daniels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Godfrey\_Daniels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godfrey_Daniels)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/64 "2003-06-24T17:33:45Z")
The sidewalk. Walked out the door, feet hit ice, face kissed the concrete. Just a little chip, but right on the left front incisor. It’s since been bonded, so you can’t even see it anymore. I kind of miss it. ---
**Author:** ![TwungTister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/65 "2003-06-24T18:27:33Z")
On another tooth! ---
**Author:** ![mipiace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@mipiace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mipiace)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566/66 "2003-06-24T20:32:49Z")
When I was 12 I was fighting with a friend over a frozen snickers bar…she snatched it out of my mouth and pulled a portion of a tooth with it. Truth is stranger than fiction. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-silliest-thing-youve-chipped-a-tooth-on/183566.md?page=3)