When did you lose your first tooth?

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When did you lose your first tooth?

4 or younger	5%	[ 5 ]
4 or younger	6%	[ 6 ]
5	12%	[ 13 ]
5	14%	[ 15 ]
6	8%	[ 9 ]
6	12%	[ 13 ]
7	4%	[ 4 ]
7	5%	[ 5 ]
8 or older	4%	[ 4 ]
8 or older	5%	[ 5 ]
Don't remember	11%	[ 12 ]
Don't remember	16%	[ 17 ]

Total votes : 108

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12 Dec 2010, 10:31 pm

I lost mine at 5. Most kids start loosing their teeth at 6, I have heard.

I have noticed that some people lose their teeth quicker than others.

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12 Dec 2010, 10:50 pm

I don't remember when I first started loosing my teeth or when it ended but I have this memory of having a loose tooth when I went to my grandfather's funeral and that was about a month before I was 8.

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12 Dec 2010, 10:55 pm

I don't remember when I lost my first tooth but I do remember that all my teeth were "late." I had to have all my baby teeth pulled by the dentist, one by one. Having every tooth in your mouth pulled out over the course of time? It's an experience. It affected me to the point that now when I get in a dental chair and they put their hands in my mouth I dissociate.

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13 Dec 2010, 12:32 am

I lost my two front teeth in an accident when I was almost 3. It was so traumatic that I had serious fears about the dentist for years after. (He tried to save the teeth--much more painful than had he just numbed me up and pulled them free.) Other than that, I think I lost the rest at the regular elementary-school age.

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13 Dec 2010, 1:09 am

OK, I added a "I don't remember option".

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26 Jan 2011, 5:17 pm

I was 4.

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02 Mar 2011, 6:11 pm

I don't remember. I'm gonna guess around 5 because I was at the mall when I lost the tooth. I was 5 when we moved to the city where the mall is located.

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03 Mar 2011, 3:51 pm

Five.

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13 Mar 2011, 10:37 pm

I had just turned 6 when I lost the first tooth... my sister helped me get it out using the classic string-tied-to-tooth-and-slamming-door trick.... F**k that hurt

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19 Mar 2011, 4:40 pm

I think I was around 7 when I lost my first one. I know the rest were late because when I got braces at 13 I had to have 2 pulled before they were put on.

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19 Mar 2011, 10:23 pm

azureyoshi wrote:

I think I was around 7 when I lost my first one. I know the rest were late because when I got braces at 13 I had to have 2 pulled before they were put on.

Are you sure those were baby teeth? Almost everyone has their pre-molars (adult teeth) removed when they get braces. I even had a dentist look in my mouth once and say, "ah, I see you had braces," and I said, "because my teeth are so well aligned?" and he said, "no, because you don't have your pre-molars any more."

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23 Mar 2011, 4:08 pm

Don't remember, likely when I was 6.

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