0 one of the teeth of young children and some other young mammals that fall out and are replaced by permanent teeth
Legend has it that her spirit visits children on the night they lose their last baby tooth, as they slumber in bed.
I remember very vividly, as a young man just qualified, taking baby teeth out and removing some of the germs of the permanent teeth.
She had no end of trouble with her baby teeth, though her adult teeth are fine.
Children who didn't consign their baby teeth to the fire would spend eternity searching for them in the afterlife.
Her baby teeth never fell out, so she had a double set of teeth.
In baby teeth it affects about 620 million people or 9% of the population.
These are called deciduous teeth, primary teeth, baby teeth or milk teeth.
