When I was small, I remember watching my elderly grandmother take off her dentures to wash them. Then she would put them back in.
I was always confused as to why my teeth weren't able to come off but hers were!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- Until I was about 8 I believed that your back teeth keep growing in until you have a full circle of teeth.Anon
- i used to think a small man named homer lived in my grandmother's freezer and made ice. — ana
- As a small child I always confused someone being unconcious with someone being dead.— Rick
- I used to believe that eating burnt toast would make your teeth whiter and would brush your teeth for you.— Natasha
- I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth at night, ants would crawl into my mouth and eat my teeth.Anon
- When I was very young, I assumed that false teeth were taken from dead people's teethAnon