• Question: Where do your teeth come from?

    Asked by anon-293647 to Steve on 28 Apr 2021.
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      Steve Briddon answered on 28 Apr 2021: last edited 28 Apr 2021 11:41 am

      I don’t know much of the detail of this. Teeth start to form even when you’re very tiny in the womb. There are cells that make the dentin (the soft bit of the tooth) and the enamel (the hard bit on the outside). They gradually get made as you develop in the womb and then after you’re born. When your baby teeth have been made – the same process happens again to make your adult teeth, which are there ALREADY when your baby teeth come thoruhg! I found this really cool video about it here which tells you lots more than I know!

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