2006-06-06 03:57:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Dental
First of all TEETH ARE NOT BONES.
Teeth are depositions of enamel and dentin formed inside a tiny bud that grows(it's called a tooth bud). Each bud is formed like a sprout off a chain of sprouts, like leaves on a plant. You are NOT born with all your teeth already started, but with most of them already started. Your wisdom teeth are the last to start forming well after birth (I think 6 or 7 years) .
As part of the eruption process the new tooth (adult tooth) start to eat away the roots of the baby tooth in a controlled manner. as it takes away more and more of the baby tooth root, the baby tooth becomes looser and falls out. So what pushes the tooth out? The ligaments that attach the root to the bone provide the eruption force necessary for the tooth to move.
2006-06-06 04:18:26 · answer #1 · answered by dre 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, the gums just protect the tooth once it comes through. Your jawbone that goes all around you mouth makes the tooth. It comes up similar to a plant coming from the ground.
It starts from the bone by making roots and the roots have a blood supply that feeds the tooth and it grows until it reaches its stopping point and then becomes your tooth.
2006-06-06 04:04:41 · answer #2 · answered by Johhny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not created by gum, but rather, before the old tooth come off, the new tooth is already hidden under the old tooth, and the new tooth just need to rise out of it's place and be your new tooth.
The new tooth is created along the first few years of the child's life
2006-06-06 04:08:39 · answer #3 · answered by Lie Ryan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
inside your bones beneath the gums all humans have tooth buds that are genetically predetermined. they stay in place until the body develops to the stage each tooth bud is told to develop into an erupted tooth.
2006-06-06 05:46:33 · answer #4 · answered by ladyofthehollow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the gums protect. the tooth actually comes from the upper mandible (jaw bone).
2006-06-06 04:00:24 · answer #5 · answered by carolinagrl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the tooth fairy planted a baby tooth in your gums while you wer sleeping.
2006-06-06 04:00:48 · answer #6 · answered by with_dark_motives 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that your reply would be: "the tooth fairy gave it to us" but babe, aren't we all a little too old for such beliefs?
2006-06-06 04:03:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO YOUR BORN WITH ALL THE TEETH YOU'LL EVER HAVE AND THERE ALREADY UNDER THE OLD TOOTH BEFORE IT FALLS OUT .WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL THEY TAUT US THIS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO THE DENTIST???????
2006-06-06 04:02:47 · answer #8 · answered by BITCHYGIRL 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hope this helps
2006-06-06 04:02:07 · answer #9 · answered by mac 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋