All of my SMS messages have disappeared

Hi everyone,
This morning I was sending a group text to 35 of my contacts. Whilst it was sending it disappeared, along with the rest of my texts, which dated back to when I first bought the phone in August 2008.
As with most issues, my first instinct was the switch the phone off and then back on again, but this didn't work. I also rebooted it (held the power and home button) but again, it didn't work.
For some reason, iTunes isn't presenting me with the option to "Restore from Back-Up", although I do have a fairly new laptop. I'm sure that I've created a Back-Up on my new laptop, but obviously not.
Does anybody know either (a) why this may have occurred or (b) how I can retrieve my lost text messages? This isn't essential, but as I said, I had texts dating back to August 2008 so it'd be nice to have them back!
Any help or information would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Matt.

For some reason, iTunes isn't presenting me with the option to "Restore from Back-Up", although I do have a fairly new laptop. I'm sure that I've created a Back-Up on my new laptop, but obviously not.
Where or when are you not being presented with the option? When selecting Restore with iTunes, you aren't presented this option until after your iPhone is erased and the firmware is re-installed. After the firmware is re-installed you are prompted to restore from the backup which is the default selection.
Your iPhone's backup is updated by iTunes as the first step during the iTunes sync process. Go to iTunes > Preferences and under the Devices tab you can view your iPhone's backup or backups if more than one is available and the date and time the backup was last updated.

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