Compilation of people who grew a third set of teeth

My great-grandmother had three sets. When she was 60+ years old, her teeth started falling out. They decided the best thing to do was pull the rest and give her dentures. Thing is, one or two grew back in. The dentist continued pulling teeth, and more kept coming. At the end of the day (or year as it may be), he ended up pulling an entire third set.

My 41 year old husband is on his third set of teeth, and dental x-rays reveal another set below the present teeth. We do not know if other members of the family have this trait. My husband lived the first 11 years of his life in Las Vegas, where the water is very high in fluoride. His naturally straight teeth are the envy of those of us who suffered years of braces, and he never had a cavity until he was an adult (lots of tarter, but only four small caries in 41 years)

Yes. When I was about twelve I started losing my teeth. I was terrified until I found that a third set was growing in. My third set has never caused me any pain and is much straighter than my other two. My maternal aunt had the exact same thing happen so we believe it may be inherited through her father (my maternal grandfather).

I'm 26 years of age. When I was younger, not sure when, my baby teeth fell out as standard, replaced by adult teeth. Then four of those fell out on their own, to be replaced once more. The centre two teeth on both top and bottom rows. Haven't heard of that happening to anyone else until here.

I have also had an extra set of top teeth! My dentist sent me to the hospital to have my second set of Top teeth removed when I was just a teenager. My second set were in perfect condition but the dentist insisted that I was to have them remove to stop any complications in later life! How wrong now I think that decision was as after two painful opperations over two years as a teenager the third set that were forced to replace my second set are much weeker and since having my third set I have had nothing but problems having filling done nearly every two years since the operations. I am now 37 & have now had some teeth remove where a denture.

It is also possible to just have extra teeth in certain places. My little brother (age 8 at the time) was found to have an extra permanent front tooth. It looked like this: 1(extra) 1 1 (permanent) 1 1 (baby) The extra one was fighting to get in, so it made the other permanent teeth crooked. He had it removed in oral surgery. He will need braces to straighten the teeth that one messed up.

My great grand mother lived to be exactly 125 years old and had her 3rd set of teeth. Not only did her teeth come out really straight, but her hair also started to turn black again!

I knew a guy back home who was in his 50s and had all his teeth pulled as they were in pretty bad shape. This was back in the day when a lot of dentists were pulling the whole lot and charging enormous sums for dentures.So he had done the fittings for the dentures, paid for them and started to wear them. All evidence suggested he fully expected to be wearing dentures for the rest of his life. Despite this all his teeth grew back, white and strong.

I asked my parents whether they know someone that had his third teeth growing, and my mother said that there was one grandmother, that she knew - 100 of age when her third teeth start growing!

We have the same case in our family, my maternal great-greatgrandmother was nearly a 100 years old when she had a few new teeth growing! So it is pretty possible to grow new teeth.

A tooth came in for me after I had lost that tooth twice. But this only happened once and I wouldn't want to take a chance with another adult tooth and see if it happens again. I already have a large gap from where I lost a couple teeth from being punched, so that third tooth was probably just a lucky fluke.

When I was in my mid 30s I grew a new tooth. I called my dentist and he didn't believe me, I wanted to have it pulled. He had all my xrays that showed nothing and when he looked in my mouth he was shocked. He pulled the tooth and the women who worked for him all cooed and said it looked like a baby tooth. They asked me if I wanted it and I said no.

I have regrown two adult teephers that I lost.. 1 when I was 12 in the front 4 on top.. the dentist was shocked.. the other a couple years ago on the top right in the very back.

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