I used to think that your teeth fell out because of little men inside your gums. The little men held on to the end of your ooth and when they got old they died and let go, allowing your tooth to fall out. A new tooth coming through ment that a new man had been placed there.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think that the tooth fairy puts you in a deep sleep before stealing your tooth/teeth.Anon
- I used to believe that in the tooth fairy took all your teeth and built a tooth city for her to live in!Anon
- After your teeth fall out when you're a kid, your gums fall out. Then you get new gums and teeth.— Erin
- when i was a child i used to believe if i put my tooth under the bed the tooth fairy would give me money— milena
- My mother told me that the tooth fairy would only come if I brushed my teeth.— Dale
- As a child I was taught that the tooth fairy would buy our teeth so she could add them to her crown.— Lola