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submitted 11 months ago by BennyInc@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Some kids in my family start losing their milk teeth. 🦷

While we don’t do the tooth fairy 🧚 stuff, I wondered whether there’s any cool kid-friendly experiments 🔬 to do with their deciduous teeth? Like dissolving them in easily available liquids to teach them the importance of brushing, or maybe some material strength tests to show how cool enamel is?

Hit me with some cool ideas, I‘ve got a few teeth to experiment with 😃

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[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 88 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

...milk teeth?

To clarify, I'm American, and always heard them called baby teeth 😅

[-] SHamblingSHapes@lemmy.one 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Aka baby teeth or primary teeth or deciduous teeth

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago
[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Watch ur mouth, boy

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago
[-] SHamblingSHapes@lemmy.one 5 points 11 months ago

Ope, jinx. Just adding that to my comment when you commented. 🍻

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Mmm, xye-li-tol aaaarghh

[-] frenchyy94@feddit.de 24 points 11 months ago

That's what we call them in German. Milchzähne. I'm guessing because they develop while you're still drinking your mother's milk?

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Do you have a deutschyy94 companion novelty account? Should snipe that, like nowzers

in estonian the litteral translation is milk teeth and for the teeth in adulthood it's ice teeth

[-] Soku@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Not ice teeth, 'jäävhambad' means permanent teeth. The root word 'jääma', meaning to stay

i guess as a child i always heard it as jäähambad

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

In Finnish adult teeth are called literally iron teeth.

[-] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 11 months ago

In france we call em dent de lait, milk teeth

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When is milk stuff like de lait?

Edit: de lait vs du lait

[-] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

What do you mean

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

Same in Spanish, dientes de leche

[-] BennyInc@feddit.de 15 points 11 months ago

Is that not what you call them?

[-] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

baby teeth: this will probably differ in what they are called by province / state / country

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Lol, Americans are different. Everyone else in this thread calls them milk teeth, even in different languages haha!

[-] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Milk teeth is grossing me out. I am just imagining me pouring milk and teeth are mixed in with the milk.

[-] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

Like extra crunchy breakfast cereal.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Are you ok? Are you worried about a silicon condom + silicon lube type situation?

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 11 points 11 months ago

It's like our egg tooth but for humans, it's their first set of teeth. They aren't breaking out of their eggs though, lazy mammals.

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Oh BABY teeth!

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Its what you use to eat milksteak 🙄

[-] Deifyed@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Milk teeth in Norwegian as well, "melketenner"

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