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Definition of Baby tooth

1. Noun. One of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one of 20 in children).

Definition of Baby tooth

1. Noun. a tooth which will be replaced as a child ages, as opposed to an adult permanent tooth; a milk tooth ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Baby tooth

1. A tooth of the first set of teeth, comprising 20 in all, that erupts between the mean ages of 6 and 28 months of life. Synonym: dens deciduus, baby tooth, deciduous dentition, dens lacteus, first dentition, milk tooth, primary dentition, primary tooth, temporary tooth. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Baby tooth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Child's Book of the Teeth by Harrison Wader Ferguson (1918)
"Figure 32 Figure 33 Figure 34 / Figure 32 shows an upper baby tooth and a second or permanent bicuspid tooth growing in the jaw above it. ..."

2. Journal of the British Dental Association by British Dental Association (1902)
"... for a baby tooth and take the child off to the dentist to have the baby tooth out, and are quite shocked when they learn the real state of the case. ..."

3. The ABCs of Safe & Healthy Child Care: A Handbook for Child Care Providers by Cynthia M. Hale, Jacqueline A. Polder (2000)
"... Out) Tooth (Bleeding Due to Loss of baby tooth) Sores (Cold/ Canker) If not, cover sharp or protruding portion with cotton balls, gauze, or chewing gum. ..."

4. Catching's Compendium of Practical Dentistry (1895)
"... is to start the process of exfoliation before the coming forward of the first permanent molar and the locking of the dead baby tooth between the tooth ..."

5. The Child-study Monthly by Alfred Bayliss, William Otterbein Krohn, C. Victor Campbell, Albert Henry Yoder, Illinois Society for Child-Study (1899)
"In conclusion I wish to speak of the sixth-year molar; not that it is a baby tooth, but because it is not, and yet is very commonly mistaken for such. ..."

6. Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff (1921)
"It is a sort of exchange; the baby tooth is thrown among the bushes and the rat is invoked to replace it with one as white and durable as his own. ..."

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