baby tooth
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Soon, I was throwing away fifth-grade report cards, old concert tickets and an unidentified baby tooth in a Ziploc bag.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025
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.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024
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.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2023
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.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2022
They used that gimmick on me when I lost my first baby tooth.
From The Big Fix by Bernklau
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