Losing Teeth?

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My son is six and is losing his firat tooth, he wants to know if it bothered anyone else or freaked them out?

My son was eating a cheeseburger when he lost his first and swallowed it. I don't remember him being freaked out. He got freaked out by things like automatic doors.

My son ended up swallowing his first lost tooth, as well. He was freaked out by not having a tooth to leave for the tooth fairy (we solved that with a note and a photo) more than the process, for he had been expecting it. Still, he finds it all somewhat odd and interesting - he'll stare at the tooth or the hole for a while, and with the first few he had all these interesting theories and stories.

Some kids do freak out. I don't know details, I just know I've of it before.

Nope, it didn't freak me out.
What freaked me out was my dad tying a string to it, tying the other end to a door, and slamming the door to jerk it out.
But I kept moving with the door, so it didn't happen and my mom finally stopped him.

Funny now, scary then.

I knew that a new tooth would grow in where the old one was, so I wasn't freaked out by it.

What bothered me, however, was when one would be almost out and just hanging there by this little flap of gum, and it would hurt if I pulled on it or twisted it, and I knew that if I just gave it a good quick tug it would be over with, but I didn't want to do that because it was fun to play with it with my tongue--pushing on it just hard enough to hurt, then letting it go back into position, and repeating this over and over again.

Also, once it was out, I couldn't stop running my tongue over the hole where the tooth was, feeling the smoothness of the gum and then the little hard bumps when the new tooth started growing through.

So I guess the answer is yes--it did freak me out just a bit, and is freaking me out now just thinking about it some 30+ years later!

(P.S. Shouldn't this thread be posted in the Parents' Forum instead of the Crater?)

Thank you all for the replys, my son sounds very much like CTBill, he says the same thing.