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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 93 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 19 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. 🍻

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[-] 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

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 6 points 1 year ago

i guess as a child i always heard it as jäähambad

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[-] seliaste 17 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

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

Is that not what you call them?

[-] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 14 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 13 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?

[-] 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 7 points 1 year ago

Oh BABY teeth!

[-] 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"

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago

If you save up enough, you can have them in a bowl with milk, like teeth cereal.

[-] dgbbad@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Thompson's Teeth. The only teeth strong enough to eat other teeth.

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[-] humdrumgentleman@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

You know how this goes, right?

The resulting thirst for scientific knowledge results in unparalleled technological advancement, but also an endless demand deciduous teeth for further experimentation. Eventually their personally-developed, secretly manufactured and deployed microdrone monitoring network alerts them every time any child loses a tooth in the Western world. Slightly larger drones sneak into the home and collect the tooth. In an attempt to avoid further pressing of ethical boundaries, the drones are equipped to carry in small amounts of currency that are left in place of the tooth. Your family, more literally and on a larger scale than any family before, DOES the tooth fairy 🧚 stuff.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nice try, James Cameron

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[-] SHamblingSHapes@lemmy.one 25 points 1 year ago

Digital microscopes are very affordable. Basic models up to 1000x can be found for 50 USD.

Break one up and look at the different layers under magnification.

[-] lol3droflxp@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

Lol, 1000x is such bullshit. It’s hopelessly stacked digital zoom or idiotic lens measurements. 1000x is about the absolute maximum with classic light microscopes and those that can do it are quite expensive. Buy some cheap (stereo)microscope for $100 from some company like amscope (maybe used) and it will be much better and be useful for other stuff.

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[-] BennyInc@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Love that one. This definitely goes on the list.

[-] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Other nice experiments with a microscope are: looking at the cells of (red) onions, chlorophyll in green leaves, and water from a pond, hairs etc. But I don't know what kind of magnifying you need. These things are probably not that small.

[-] Rikolan@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

One of the most infamous experiments is submerging the tooth in cola, to show the importance of brushing. In primary school, it was done on white eggs though, but using a tooth would be more authentic. Ironically, while the tooth should completely rot in cola, the liquid is perfect for washing household things (the sink or a toilet bowl for example).

[-] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

That's always been a pretty misleading interpretation of the experiment.

The experiment is great. It's good to teach kids about acids and bases and this basic chemistry.

It's just that the same thing happens if you put a dead tooth in any acid, including the ones that are required for you to live, like vitamin c, and the ones that people drink because they think it's healthy, like vinegar.

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[-] BennyInc@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Does it really? I tried that with some meat when I was a kid, and other than turning a little ugly not much changed.

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[-] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

the liquid is perfect for washing household things (the sink or a toilet bowl for example)

And afterwards it makes a great mixer!

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

You guys and your awesome, eco-friendly, life hacks! Where would I be without you?

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[-] variants@possumpat.io 13 points 1 year ago

what you can do is hide the teeth under a neighbor kits pillow and leave a note on the door for the parents, then when they leave the money you go back in and take it before the parents find out, just watch out for the local tooth mob boss

[-] Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, I've been tempted to cut them in thin slivers, press them between metal plates, and test for piezoelectricity (they ought to be piezoelectric). Them build a higher-than-normal voltage Colpitts oscillator around it. Higher voltage to compensate for lousy crystal performance, not "high voltage". Maybe tens of volts?

Then use them as a clock source for a CPU. Try to get one with fully static operation in case the frequency is not super stable.

This forms a good introduction to practical necromancy and necrocomputing for children. Happy Halloween!

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[-] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

If they haven't been brushing their teeth and there's visible calculus on them, you could use a metal pick and scrape it off like a dentist doing teeth cleaning, to show them how thick it is.

[-] Chronoshift@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

You can drop one in a glass of soda and one in a glass of milk to demonstrate what that stuff does to your teeth after 24 hours.

[-] BennyInc@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Another experiment (with Halloween coming up) might be to string those teeth up as a necklace and observe the reactions of people noticing it…

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[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

The first thing that comes to my mind is to polish them like rocks.

[-] Fraylor@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Teeth in a tumbler could be anything from a kids story to the next Stephen King novel.

[-] HerbalGamer@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

crunchy kitty meme comes to mind

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[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Maybe try leaving one in cola for a week or two as an experiment? You'd probably be able to see how the acid affects the enamel, which is why dentists recommend drinking soda through a straw, and also why generally you're not supposed to brush your teeth directly after drinking soda (toothbrush is too abrasive on the weakened enamel).

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