Background: Early tooth loss is recognized as a public health problem not only in Colombia but also worldwide. This phenomenon has been approached by positive research, but the approach hasn’t been enough from social outlooks.
 Aim: to understand tooth loss related experiences and reveal the implications of social and emotional interactions of children and teenagers.
 Methods: Qualitative cross sectional study, this study collects elements of phenomenological approach and method. In data construction, ten children and teenagers with tooth loss were deeply interviewed. Data condensation in significance units was made for the analysis. several trends emerged around those units.
 Results: among the highlight trends, shame and acquiescence appeared after tooth loss, also dental pain were a key factor to choose dental extraction as a choice. To be afraid of the dentist and the dental attention process were related to the problem.
 Conclusion: this study contributed to the comprehensive setting extension, revealing shame and fear as emerged emotions through tooth loss suffering. Besides transforming actions in the macro-social level, it is required to build educational process that helps to overcome the imaginary relationship between dental practice and painful experiences and to generate skills that provide a humanized dental practice over an instrumental dental practice in order to change these realities.