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217.WHY DO OUR TEETH DECAY?

Among the lower animals, there is a whole succession of teeth throughout their lives. As teeth are fully developed and used up, they fall out and new ones take their place.

Man, however, has only a single replacement of his teeth. By the time a baby is about two years old, it has a total of 20 teeth, called the milk teeth.