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From: flowers@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: bottles (really Baby Teeth)
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 21:48:48 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?

I always thought that the roots were dissolved so that they would fall out.
The ones I "helped" come out always had more at the base than the ones
I left alone.

I had to have a "baby" tooth removed before it was ready, for orthodontic
reasons.  It was a molar (two teeth behind the eye tooth on the bottom),
whose bottom forked into two halves.  The tooth was in there so strongly
that the dentist could not pull it out.  So with a drill he divided it in
two halves (as though it was two teeth),
to pull out each half separately.  When pulling out one of the halves,
it was embedded so strongly that the bottom broke off.  After pulling
out the other half they they returned to the first half and picked out
the bottom piece by piece.  What should have been a simple pull extraction
ended up taking an hour of hard work (no fun on my end of things).

Whatever that stuff at the bottom of the tooth was that kept it in my
jaw, it was darned effective.  I always thought it was a root.