How do teeth begin to grow?
A baby cuts his very first tooth when he or she is six to nine months old. It is an incisor or cutting tooth in the front of the mouth, and the eruption often causes the baby a lot of trouble. This, however, is long after the tooth began to grow deep in the jawbone. Your teeth grow from seeds or buds, somewhat like pumpkin plants grow from crisp coated seeds buried in the ground. These tooth buds began to form inside your baby jaws almost six months before you were ready to leave your mother’s body and be born into the world. No teeth appeared until you were about half a year old, but all this time the seed buds in your jawbones were preparing your teeth. At the age of two and a half you should have 20 pearly milk teeth a row of 10 in your top jaw and a row of 10 in your bottom ,jaw. Teeth are tougher than the hard bones and the strong nails on the fingers and toes. The body builds them from the calcium we get from milk and from scraps of chemicals we eat with health giving salads and
