Teeth.

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

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Children have 20 milk teeth. These are eventually replaced by 32 adult teeth.

[These in turn will often be replaced by first of all a few grams of mercury amalgam; and eventually by some 20 or so plastic gnashers. ]

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