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Mystery #1Tier 1the body / teeth / growing

Why do your first teeth fall out just when you have got used to them?

One morning you bite into an apple and feel a tooth wobble. A few days later it drops right out, leaving a gap where it used to be. Your body grew that tooth on purpose, then let it fall away. Why would you grow teeth just to lose them again?

A panoramic dental X-ray of a child's jaws, showing the milk teeth in place with the larger adult teeth still forming in the bone beneath them
Photo: Gang65 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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Why do you think your first teeth do not simply stay for life?

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