Stubborn Baby Teeth
Dr. Michael L. Abdoney
8/28/2018
For background, humans have 20 baby teeth and 32 permanent teeth (including wisdom teeth). This means that your the teeth from the premolars forward had baby teeth predecessors and all of your molars did not. When you lose a baby tooth it happens because a permanent tooth is in the process of erupting into that space. That permanent tooth eats away at the root of the baby tooth, causing it to be loose and eventually fall out. At least, that’s what normally happens.
Don’t worry, if a baby tooth isn’t falling out it doesn’t mean that your teeth are “abnormal”!
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