How many primary teeth do we have?
Children begin teething around six months of age. The technical term for these early teeth is deciduous teeth, because they eventually fall out, just as leaves fall of from deciduous trees in autumn. Most people know these teeth as baby teeth, though they are also sometimes called milk teeth or primary teeth. In all, children have 20 baby teeth - 10 on the top and 10 on the bottom. These teeth act as placeholders for the adult teeth that grow in after the baby teeth fall out.
What are your thoughts on this subject?
7 Comments
Grace Rodgers
I wish we could grow new teeth, as needed.
Rosemary Waugh
What's so tricky? They said "primary" teeth. Primary means the first set, NOT your adult set.
jferengi
Primary teeth are for kids.
Julie Allen
Richard Gowar, Only after the 20 primary teeth fall out.
Blairly21
trick question - Wiki describes "primary" as 32 teeth, however we all know that we have less teeth as children and actually it isn't until our teens that we have 32, so this answer could have gone a couple of different ways. I answered 32 - it was wrong, however, if you are going to throw questions like this at us, learn to word them correctly.
jferengi
As sharks do.
Richard Gowar
Hmmmm...trick question, because eventually we have 32 teeth.