Bone grows in behind it.
Comment on Toddler teeth
scytale@lemm.ee 5 months ago
What happens to the spaces the adult teeth take up once they get out?
the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 5 months ago
abbadon420@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I don’t understand, why would they get “blocked by an instance filter for hexbear.net”? That doesn’t even seem relevant to the question…
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The poster you are replying to is a hexbear user, you have filtered out content from hexbear. This is a kludgy way to implement that but it beats having to read most of their content.
Mac@mander.xyz 4 months ago
That’s worth quite a lot, tbh.
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is two days old a comment, but I literally just copy pasted your comment into google, and apologies for linking deddit, but it used to have quality answers.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Man, I wish new teeth would grow there. Just get a new set every decade or so.
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is the first result with “growing new teeth”
dentalproductsreport.com/…/how-far-are-we-from-re…
We’re not there yet, but it doesn’t seem too far off. Definitely not scifi to say this will be possible within our lifetimes.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 5 months ago
It calcifies and turns into bone