When I was younger I used to believe that when your baby teeth fell out, the next ones would be multi-coloured! I have no idea why! It was a very strange thing to think because, obviously, I'd never seen anybody with multi-coloured teeth. I just thought mine would be, for some reason!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- Until I was around 8 or 9 years old, I thought dentists took your teeth out and replaced them with new teeth.— Verapamilo
- 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
- Until I was about 8 I believed that your back teeth keep growing in until you have a full circle of teeth.Anon
- When I was very young, I assumed that false teeth were taken from dead people's teethAnon
- I used to believe that when you lost your teeth, all of them fell out at the same time.Anon