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Does anyone actually remember losing their baby molars?

31 replies

opalescent · 30/05/2022 22:55

All my teeth related memories are of losing front teeth and looking gappy. Similarly, all my adult experiences of children losing teeth, is always front top or bottom ones!

Can anyone actually remember a molar coming loose and wobbling out- or has it recently happened to your DC?

The idea seems bizarre but I don't know why!!!

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Polkadotties · 30/05/2022 22:58

Yes I can remember mine coming out

Basilbrushgotfat · 30/05/2022 22:59

Yea, one of them - it hung on in there until I was 15!

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opalescent · 30/05/2022 22:59

@Polkadotties really? Was it a non event or were they massive?

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Anotherdayanotherdisappointment · 30/05/2022 22:59

Glad I'm not the only 1 that thought this OP!

BogRollBOGOF · 30/05/2022 23:05

I remember losing some from further back around y6 ish.

DS has lost a molar at 11 this week.

DeusInAbsentia · 30/05/2022 23:08

Yes. I remember nicking some of my mums wool and trying to tie it around the molar via the door handle to dislodge it.
Despite seeming an excellent idea at the time it failed miserably and friction burnt my tongue. Hmm

merryhouse · 30/05/2022 23:12

Yeah, about 12 or 13 I think

MajorCarolDanvers · 30/05/2022 23:16

Yes. I can physically remember the experience

Oystercatchers · 30/05/2022 23:20

Yes, I can.

Boiledbeetle · 30/05/2022 23:20

Yes! The sweet sweet pain the wobbling of them caused leading up to them coming out was delicious!

And then the whole class got to spend the next few weeks watching 👀 them sit in a glass of coke to see if sugar really did rot your teeth.

I've just realised it was so long ago now I don't actually remember what the outcome was!

bluetongue · 30/05/2022 23:30

Sure can. Mostly because many of my baby teeth refused to come out once the adult tooth was coming through and I had to get them pulled out. For one of molars the local anaesthetic didn’t work and I pretty much felt the whole thing. It’s one of the incidents that led to me having a dental phobia as an adult.

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 30/05/2022 23:39

My dd 9 has started losing hers.

FelicityBeedle · 30/05/2022 23:40

I wiggled one so much and it came out attached to a long string of my gum! I had to cut it off with scissors

Rno3gfr · 30/05/2022 23:41

Yeah, I remember. Happened between 12-15. I noticed no wobbling, and then each time it happened they’d come out after I took a bite into food. The first one came out after I bit into a cup cake 🤢, I wasn’t expecting it at all- I actually went into shock. I actually bit down on a few of them not realising they’d come out. GROSS.

riotlady · 30/05/2022 23:43

I can very vividly with one of them- I accidentally bit a popcorn kernel at Guides and it split straight down the middle but stayed in my gum. For a few days it looked like a normal tooth from a distance but I could open it up like a clamshell. Then one half fell out, then the other. I kept it in my pocket at school until a boy stole it!

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 30/05/2022 23:44

Most of my molars had to be extracted as the adult ones were growing but the baby ones wouldn’t fall out. It’s not a fond memory.

ThatPosterIsSoRight · 30/05/2022 23:46

I don’t remember my molars coming out.

DS is 12 and lost one recently. His other teeth would be wobbly for ages (years in one case!), but the molar just went from wobbly to out in one day. And you don’t get that satisfying turning-it-all-around thing you get with the other teeth, it just pops out. Much less memorable.

Boiledbeetle · 30/05/2022 23:53

ThatPosterIsSoRight · 30/05/2022 23:46

I don’t remember my molars coming out.

DS is 12 and lost one recently. His other teeth would be wobbly for ages (years in one case!), but the molar just went from wobbly to out in one day. And you don’t get that satisfying turning-it-all-around thing you get with the other teeth, it just pops out. Much less memorable.

Now I did get to do that with mine! I wonder if it depends on the age they sart to come out? I was only about 8 so maybe that's why mine took a lot more effort to remove!

TheFormidableMrsC · 31/05/2022 00:18

My DS lost a molar this week. He's 11. There's another wobbling away so that'll be out soon.

TulipsGarden · 31/05/2022 00:25

Yes, I remember how weird the hole felt - it was much bigger than front/canine teeth, you could fit your tongue in there.

I discovered recently that children can start losing their baby teeth as young as 4... I thought it was more like 7!

TheWayoftheLeaf · 31/05/2022 08:13

Yep because my mum yanked it out

MiddleParking · 31/05/2022 08:17

When each of my molars started getting wobbly I pushed my fingernails into the gum to force them out. I can remember the feeling very clearly.

coffeecupsandfairylights · 31/05/2022 08:25

Definitely.

I lost one on holiday in Canada and I was really disappointed when it came out as I'd had so much fun wobbling it and sticking my tongue underneath it 🤣

CharlotteSt · 31/05/2022 08:26

Boiledbeetle · 30/05/2022 23:20

Yes! The sweet sweet pain the wobbling of them caused leading up to them coming out was delicious!

And then the whole class got to spend the next few weeks watching 👀 them sit in a glass of coke to see if sugar really did rot your teeth.

I've just realised it was so long ago now I don't actually remember what the outcome was!

I did that too and it did dissolve.

I had a very wobbly front tooth for what seemed like forever. An older girl bumped into me in the playground and knocked it out. She was horrified but I was thrilled because it had been hanging on for so long.

modgepodge · 31/05/2022 08:30

I suspect no one remembers molars because the first few at the front are very exciting - novelty, the tooth fairy etc. i suspect by the time molars come out the novelty has worn off and kids no longer believe so it’s far less exciting.

i had a child in my class (y5 so 9/10) lose 2 molars in 2 consecutive maths lessons. I thought she was taking the piss the second time when she asked to be excused, but no, she’d actually lost 2 teeth in 2 days.