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Tate Modern, SE1, to 10 Jan A hoard of children's milk teeth are wrapped in a white silk lace handkerchief and secreted away in a white envelope.
The 26 to 32 white or red-tipped teeth are not replaced during the animal's life (milk teeth are shed before birth).
I was 16 when I had moved with my family to Ibadan from Port Harcourt, the city in the Niger Delta where I was born and where my milk teeth are buried.
Being so reliant on their teeth for survival means a tiger's permanent teeth can be seen fully emerged just a few days after their milk teeth are lost.
These milk teeth are lost shortly after birth and are replaced by open-rooted, continually growing (hypselodont) incisors.
The milk teeth are smaller and whiter than permanent incisors.
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For the first few years of life it is possible to calculate the age of sheep from their front teeth, as a pair of milk teeth is replaced by larger adult teeth each year, the full set of eight adult front teeth being complete at about four years of age.
Whole milk teeth were collected by dentists over the last 50 years all over Switzerland.
These findings demonstrate that plutonium found in milk teeth is caused by fallout that was inhaled around the time the milk teeth were shed and not from any accumulation during pregnancy through placenta transfer.
The enamel of milk teeth is deposited in utero and incorporates any fetal contamination received during pregnancy.
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