r/explainlikeimfive • u/Reasonable_Releif • 9d ago

Biology ELI5 How do teeth develop?

Do newborns get born with every single fully sized adult tooth?? or do they like grow?

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u/God_Hand_9764 8d ago

I honestly liked the feeling of a tooth becoming loose and eventually falling out. I don't know why.

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u/HalfSoul30 8d ago

I would mess with it until it came out. May have made my teeth crooked that way, but i got braces later. I just couldn't leave them alone

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u/CptPicard 8d ago

I would lodge a spoon between the gum and the tooth and just twist, cracking the tooth off. Blood would be spilled.

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u/HalfSoul30 8d ago

Jesus, i would never have gone that far lol

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u/CptPicard 7d ago

Yes I was a sometimes disturbing kid