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submitted 1 year ago by BennyInc@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Some kids in my family start losing their milk teeth. 🦷

While we don’t do the tooth fairy 🧚 stuff, I wondered whether there’s any cool kid-friendly experiments 🔬 to do with their deciduous teeth? Like dissolving them in easily available liquids to teach them the importance of brushing, or maybe some material strength tests to show how cool enamel is?

Hit me with some cool ideas, I‘ve got a few teeth to experiment with 😃

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[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

...milk teeth?

To clarify, I'm American, and always heard them called baby teeth 😅

[-] SHamblingSHapes@lemmy.one 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aka baby teeth or primary teeth or deciduous teeth

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago
[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Watch ur mouth, boy

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago
[-] SHamblingSHapes@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Ope, jinx. Just adding that to my comment when you commented. 🍻

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Mmm, xye-li-tol aaaarghh

[-] frenchyy94@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago

That's what we call them in German. Milchzähne. I'm guessing because they develop while you're still drinking your mother's milk?

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you have a deutschyy94 companion novelty account? Should snipe that, like nowzers

in estonian the litteral translation is milk teeth and for the teeth in adulthood it's ice teeth

[-] Soku@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Not ice teeth, 'jäävhambad' means permanent teeth. The root word 'jääma', meaning to stay

i guess as a child i always heard it as jäähambad

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

In Finnish adult teeth are called literally iron teeth.

[-] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago

In france we call em dent de lait, milk teeth

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When is milk stuff like de lait?

Edit: de lait vs du lait

[-] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago
[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I feel like I always see milk written as du lait, not de or is this like some subject/description basic thing I'm ignorant of

[-] folkrav@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Du" is used in the sense of "some" milk, while "de" is more "of" milk. Not sure it's the exact translation but that's how it's mapped in my French speaking ESL brain.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, you got it aha. I passively knew that but it was un peu buried

[-] madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

There's also au, like in café au lait 😁

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Olé 🇪🇸🤠

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like 🥶 but yellow would have been a nicer touch given the Thread

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Same in Spanish, dientes de leche

[-] BennyInc@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

Is that not what you call them?

[-] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

baby teeth: this will probably differ in what they are called by province / state / country

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 year ago

It's like our egg tooth but for humans, it's their first set of teeth. They aren't breaking out of their eggs though, lazy mammals.

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Oh BABY teeth!

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Lol, Americans are different. Everyone else in this thread calls them milk teeth, even in different languages haha!

[-] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Milk teeth is grossing me out. I am just imagining me pouring milk and teeth are mixed in with the milk.

[-] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Like extra crunchy breakfast cereal.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Are you ok? Are you worried about a silicon condom + silicon lube type situation?

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its what you use to eat milksteak 🙄

[-] Deifyed@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Milk teeth in Norwegian as well, "melketenner"

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