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From: stu16@whuxl.UUCP (Pippin)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: bottles (really Baby Teeth)
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Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 08:29:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 08:29:20 1986
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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.



   Those "claws" holding the tooth to the jaw are NOT roots.
Roots are the pulpy things coming out from the center of the
tooth. Ever hear of root canal? Where do you think the root
canal is located?
-- 
                      Pippin Stuart
                      whuxl!stu16