Most teeth lost in an hour

The highest number of teeth lost in one hour was 27, by Art “Bridges” McBride, 37, of New Jersey, in the United States of America. At 11:30 AM, on June 25th 1984, Art had just had his 6-monthly company health check-up, at the Smilin’ Uncle Bernie Hubcap Corporation’s New York State Headquarters, and it was confirmed that he had 29 teeth, all healthy. At 12:17 PM, however, he had checked into his local hospital’s Emergency Room, with only 2 teeth remaining, his 2nd upper and lower molars. Although it was suspected that he had either knocked them out himself, had got into a fight, or sold them on the Black Market, there was no sign of physical trauma, or even bleeding, which seemed to discount all of these possibilities. McBride said, “I have no idea what happened. The first I knew was when I went to bite into a carrot and meatball ciabbatta, and all I could do was make this slurping sound. What really worries me is if there’s some jerk out there, running around with my teeth.”

McBride, pictured three weeks before the 'Ciabatta Incident'. Photo courtesy of Spiky Gaijin

©2009 James Mathurin