...milk teeth?
To clarify, I'm American, and always heard them called baby teeth 😅
Aka baby teeth or primary teeth or deciduous teeth
My teeth are perennials.
Watch ur mouth, boy
Deciduous teeth! xD
Ope, jinx. Just adding that to my comment when you commented. 🍻
That's what we call them in German. Milchzähne. I'm guessing because they develop while you're still drinking your mother's milk?
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
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
Is that not what you call them?
baby teeth: this will probably differ in what they are called by province / state / country
Lol, Americans are different. Everyone else in this thread calls them milk teeth, even in different languages haha!
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.
Oh BABY teeth!
Milk teeth is grossing me out. I am just imagining me pouring milk and teeth are mixed in with the milk.
Like extra crunchy breakfast cereal.
Are you ok? Are you worried about a silicon condom + silicon lube type situation?
Its what you use to eat milksteak 🙄
Milk teeth in Norwegian as well, "melketenner"
It's great segway to discuss aging, decay and the certain death that awaits them. Or you can do the fairy stuff sure
If you save up enough, you can have them in a bowl with milk, like teeth cereal.
Thompson's Teeth. The only teeth strong enough to eat other teeth.
You know how this goes, right?
The resulting thirst for scientific knowledge results in unparalleled technological advancement, but also an endless demand deciduous teeth for further experimentation. Eventually their personally-developed, secretly manufactured and deployed microdrone monitoring network alerts them every time any child loses a tooth in the Western world. Slightly larger drones sneak into the home and collect the tooth. In an attempt to avoid further pressing of ethical boundaries, the drones are equipped to carry in small amounts of currency that are left in place of the tooth. Your family, more literally and on a larger scale than any family before, DOES the tooth fairy 🧚 stuff.
Nice try, James Cameron
Digital microscopes are very affordable. Basic models up to 1000x can be found for 50 USD.
Break one up and look at the different layers under magnification.
Lol, 1000x is such bullshit. It’s hopelessly stacked digital zoom or idiotic lens measurements. 1000x is about the absolute maximum with classic light microscopes and those that can do it are quite expensive. Buy some cheap (stereo)microscope for $100 from some company like amscope (maybe used) and it will be much better and be useful for other stuff.
What do you mean by "useful for other stuff"? It's still double the investment, what do you gain for this much, realistically, from a purely hobbyist, I'll check things with my 6yo, PoV? Are we talking genuine trash to good, or more like acceptable to great?
We’re talking gimmick/toy vs basic research tool. You won’t be limited by what’s more or less a low end webcam with a cheap plastic macro zoom lens in front because you’ll have higher quality optics you can use with your eyes. You don’t run the risk of it not working anymore with newer hardware/software. If there’s ever a science project from school or the child is interested in science later on, a proper microscope will still work in 10 or more years, and you’ll be able to upgrade stuff.
You might need to buy used though although the stuff from Amscope and similar companies can be quite cheap while it’s new. Depends on what features you want.
For looking at teeth you’ll want a stereomicroscope which is cool because you can just throw stuff on the stage and look at it like it is and you get a 3D image. It doesn’t have the high magnification of compound microscopes though. Of course if you invest more you can also get good digital microscopes but for $50 it’s not gonna be great.
Love that one. This definitely goes on the list.
Other nice experiments with a microscope are: looking at the cells of (red) onions, chlorophyll in green leaves, and water from a pond, hairs etc. But I don't know what kind of magnifying you need. These things are probably not that small.
One of the most infamous experiments is submerging the tooth in cola, to show the importance of brushing. In primary school, it was done on white eggs though, but using a tooth would be more authentic. Ironically, while the tooth should completely rot in cola, the liquid is perfect for washing household things (the sink or a toilet bowl for example).
That's always been a pretty misleading interpretation of the experiment.
The experiment is great. It's good to teach kids about acids and bases and this basic chemistry.
It's just that the same thing happens if you put a dead tooth in any acid, including the ones that are required for you to live, like vitamin c, and the ones that people drink because they think it's healthy, like vinegar.
Does it really? I tried that with some meat when I was a kid, and other than turning a little ugly not much changed.
the liquid is perfect for washing household things (the sink or a toilet bowl for example)
And afterwards it makes a great mixer!
You guys and your awesome, eco-friendly, life hacks! Where would I be without you?
what you can do is hide the teeth under a neighbor kits pillow and leave a note on the door for the parents, then when they leave the money you go back in and take it before the parents find out, just watch out for the local tooth mob boss
If they haven't been brushing their teeth and there's visible calculus on them, you could use a metal pick and scrape it off like a dentist doing teeth cleaning, to show them how thick it is.
Well, I've been tempted to cut them in thin slivers, press them between metal plates, and test for piezoelectricity (they ought to be piezoelectric). Them build a higher-than-normal voltage Colpitts oscillator around it. Higher voltage to compensate for lousy crystal performance, not "high voltage". Maybe tens of volts?
Then use them as a clock source for a CPU. Try to get one with fully static operation in case the frequency is not super stable.
This forms a good introduction to practical necromancy and necrocomputing for children. Happy Halloween!
Another experiment (with Halloween coming up) might be to string those teeth up as a necklace and observe the reactions of people noticing it…
You can drop one in a glass of soda and one in a glass of milk to demonstrate what that stuff does to your teeth after 24 hours.
The first thing that comes to my mind is to polish them like rocks.
Teeth in a tumbler could be anything from a kids story to the next Stephen King novel.
Maybe try leaving one in cola for a week or two as an experiment? You'd probably be able to see how the acid affects the enamel, which is why dentists recommend drinking soda through a straw, and also why generally you're not supposed to brush your teeth directly after drinking soda (toothbrush is too abrasive on the weakened enamel).
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