How Much Do You Know About Your Child's Milky Teeth?
- Children's teeth "also called milky or deciduous teeth" are the primary teeth that start to appear in your baby's mouth as early as 5 months of age.
- They start to form and develop long before birth.
- By the age of 3 years, all of the twenty primary teeth are present in the mouth.
- They all vary in their order of appearance, pace and time of loss.
- The first permanent tooth appears around 6 years of age.
- The last primary tooth is to be lost usually around 12-13 years old.
- The age between 6 and 12 years is called the "mixed dentition stage" when some of both primary and permanent teeth coexist in the mouth.