adult teeth

When our adult teeth wear out, we are in trouble.

Normally, a person should end up with 32 adult teeth.

The second set is the 42-piece permanent or adult teeth.

The adult teeth are permanent but do not really continue to grow.

There are many available treatments for patients that do not develop adult teeth.

The process is similar to what happens when humans grow their original adult teeth.

When our adult teeth wear out, the only replacements available are artificial.

In most cases, only permanent, adult teeth are reimplanted into the mouth.

If so, the supernumeraries will probably need to be removed to make space for the adult teeth.

In addition, the chances that adult teeth will end up being crooked are greatly increased.

We also do not want to remove baby teeth early because it can lead to problems with adult teeth.

Answer: The link between calcium as a child and the strength of adult teeth is not proven.

With traditional braces, children must usually wait until almost all their adult teeth are in place, usually about the age of 12.

They also serve as placeholders for the adult teeth.

When they fall out, adult teeth grow in.

The four last adult teeth, one at the back of every arch will usually appear between the ages of 17 and 25 years.

As full-size adult teeth press on their developing mouth, the world becomes one big chew toy.

Sometimes the number of permanent or adult teeth may vary, which is fine as long as they do not cause bad bite.

Puppies chew as they cut their adult teeth, just as babies do.

Answer: Baby teeth can decay just like adult teeth.

Animals that have milk teeth and adult teeth are called diphyodont.

It can be difficult to color correct the varying shades of white between those new adult teeth and the ones previously whitened.

In many mammals the infants have a set of teeth that fall out and are replaced by adult teeth.

The young are weaned at around two weeks of age, and have a full set of adult teeth by three weeks.

In contrast, we evolved a system with a single tooth replacement, of milk teeth by adult teeth.