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What are milk teeth?
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Common term: The milk teeth are the common for the first set of teeth that babies get when their diet is predominantly mothers milk.
Answered 11/18/2012
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Baby teeth: Those are the first set of teeth we get as a child. It has nothing to do with milk except milk provides the nutrients needed for healthy teeth to form.
Answered 10/23/2017
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Deciduous teeth: Another name for them is deciduous teeth. They are softer and so not as strong as permanent teeth, but they only have to last 8 to 10 years.
Answered 3/26/2013
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