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From: stu16@whuxl.UUCP (SMITH)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: bottles (really Baby Teeth)
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 09:57:34 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.
> -- 
> 				Ed Sachs
> 				AT&T Bell Laboratories
> 				Naperville, IL
> 				ihnp4!ihuxl!essachs



     Baby teeth at the age of ten? Hard to believe. Most
baby teeth fall out by the age of six, when "six-year
molars" come in. By age twelve, wisdom teeth start erupting.
(Although some people never get permenent teeth, and others
get a third set. Genetics, I guess).
                                     kam
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