Many years ago (and I really do mean many), my baby teeth fell out. Well actually many of them needed a bit of help to leave. When I was 16 and was starting college, I got braces. I have a small mouth, which meant that when my adult teeth came through there wasn’t really room for them. Before having the braces put on, I had 4 large adult molar teeth removed (the ones closest to the front, which conveniently for me, where the ones with fillings!)
Somehow in all the dental work, a small remnant of baby tooth stayed in my mouth. It was between my two molars on the inside at the top. At one time when the dentist had numbed another part of my mouth, he tried to pull out that chunk of tooth, but it hurt so much he had to stop! There was no root left, but was in one of the hardest places to wiggle!
For years this bit of tooth has annoyed me, because it was jagged, but the idea of an injection in my mouth (when it’s not necessary for work on other teeth) has put me off getting it pulled out!
The other week I while having a burger king kids burger & chips (not my choice of location, I was working), that pesky bit of tooth disappeared. After finishing a mouthful, I was suddenly aware that there was no longer that tiny chunk of tooth, behind which food liked to get stuck! I must have swallowed it!
So at 30 and 9 months, I finally have no bits of baby teeth in my mouth!! Shame I don’t really have room for the two wisdom teeth at the bottom, half of one has emerged and the other pops out from time to time (the skin breaks & I can feel the corners)!