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From: essachs@ihuxl.UUCP (Ed Sachs)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Re: bottles (really Baby Teeth)
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 09:14:48 EST
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>       Baby teeth DO NOT have roots. Check it out with a
> pediodontist. Did you ever REALLY look at a baby tooth that
> has fallen out?

Baby teeth DO indeed have roots.  The roots disappear (are absorbed
somehow by the body) in order to loosen them when they are ready to
fall out.  When I was about 10, I had to have a baby tooth extracted
as it was badly decayed and not worth doing a root canal (it would
have come out by itself in a year or so).  The tooth did have roots,
but they were already beginning to erode in preparation for its
loosening.
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				Ed Sachs
				AT&T Bell Laboratories
				Naperville, IL
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