baby tooth

noun

1. another term for milk tooth

Example Sentences

Nine years ago, he joined a few colleagues in speculating that the baby tooth helped to stabilize the permanent tooth against sideways breakage as it erupted.

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After the first baby tooth emerges or your child reaches age 1, it’s time to see the dentist, who can add a coat of fluoride varnish to strengthen tooth enamel.

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To read letters from her family, Kit must submit to acts so violent that in one case, she loses a baby tooth, swallows it and is terrified the tooth will harm her inside.

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When a child becomes pregnant before she’s lost her last baby tooth and the state she lives in tries to make her stay that way, there are no winners; we have all irreparably lost.

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The paper describes the human settlement based on a modern human baby tooth, as well as stone tools that appear to have been made by Homo sapiens.

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