• These teeth look like a pair of little feet! - ajs_

Child's skull with baby teeth and adult teeth, Hunterian Museum, London

Looks like a hideous double row of teeth, but this of course is what goes on when kids' adult teeth are coming through.

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    JC-Osteo, Parker Beach, bruno stroszek, Jenism (the jenist empire), and 202 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. nexus_uk (44 months ago | reply)

    Cool :)

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  3. ajs_ (44 months ago | reply)

    Gruesome but fascinating!

  4. AC Cobra (42 months ago | reply)

    unreal

  5. Shamber G. (32 months ago | reply)

    The first time I saw this (in San Francisco) I was amazed. I had never even thought about the two sets of teeth.... So cool!

  6. Stefan Schäfer (32 months ago | reply)

    Yeah, it's crazy isn't it? Even more crazy is looking at actual living kids who are getting their adult teeth and thinking .... So that's going on inside their skull?!

  7. miss-fear (28 months ago | reply)

    This is so fascinating!

  8. omoshiroi (25 months ago | reply)

    Christ, no wonder teething is so goddamn painful. Look at that shit, they're practically up in the sinus cavity!

  9. sobaka Pavlova (23 months ago | reply)

    Awesome! Never even couldn't realise that it looks like this in the beginning!

  10. ARMLE (23 months ago | reply)

    Wow that's pretty cool, I will never see kids the same way again, they're full of teeth on the inside ! haha, featured here. :D

  11. NonstickRon (23 months ago | reply)

    That's crazy.

  12. torinoino (23 months ago | reply)

    wow, so cooooool!

  13. ChoiceCuts (21 months ago | reply)

    Quato lives

  14. stuttgartgoal (21 months ago | reply)

    cool

  15. rojonlove (17 months ago | reply)

    Wow, I always wondered the process. thanks for sharing.

  16. chilsta (17 months ago | reply)

    Any idea what age this child was?

  17. Stefan Schäfer (17 months ago | reply)

    @chilsta - Don't know, sorry.

  18. pluckingoutbuckshot (16 months ago | reply)

    Do you mind people using this photo in a blog post?

  19. Stefan Schäfer (15 months ago | reply)

    @pluckingoutbuckshot -- not at all, go for it. (sorry for the slow reply)

  20. éloïsesanzache (13 months ago | reply)

    can't be a child. child teeth have no roots.
    in this case, first teeth have roots.
    i think it's a case of third dentition.
    so, it should be an old person, more than a child.
    what do you think, people ?

  21. AC Cobra (13 months ago | reply)

    definitely a child

  22. Shamber G. (13 months ago | reply)

    I concur. Child.

  23. éloïsesanzache (13 months ago | reply)

    ok :)
    what's your argumentation ? the siza of the skull, maybe. & if, shouldn't it be a small personn.
    how do you explain the roots on the first teeth ?
    regards :)

  24. Bandia12 (12 months ago | reply)

    Deciduous/baby teeth do have roots. As the permanent teeth move up, they dissolve the roots so that the tooth loosens and can fall out easier.

  25. Bandia12 (12 months ago | reply)

    @Eloise. The answer above this was directed at you. Forgot to click reply.

  26. Cheryl377 (12 months ago | reply)

    Based on the fact that this skull has two permanent teeth just erupting on the bottom, I would say this is a five to six year old child.

  27. xyberdruid (12 months ago | reply)

    i weirdly want to touch it

  28. Unicorn Vendetta aka Poo Rang (12 months ago | reply)

    I would guess the same, closer to 5.

  29. sorakirei (12 months ago | reply)

    So fascinating. I can't look away.

  30. éloïsesanzache (12 months ago | reply)

    @ Bandia12 > thanx for this great information. i now can understand the photo. & i also know more :)

  31. Gato Ranch (12 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic, BTW saw this here:

    io9.com/5910844/the-mouth-of-a-child-is-a-ter rifying-thin...

  32. Never Was An Arrow II (12 months ago | reply)

    ☆☆☆☆☆ SUPERB FIVE STAR Capture!
    Hideous…but informative…

  33. RoseBlu (11 months ago | reply)

    being a mom of 2 ( now older) its really neat to see the developmental stage of a child's teeth..... my daughter showed me this pic... and to find it hideous is inhuman

  34. Fucta (9 months ago | reply)

    The kid was around six years old.

  35. dalaurya82 (7 months ago | reply)

    I can definitely see why all of this happens out of view!

  36. sk0715 (7 months ago | reply)

    My daughter's teeth were at this stage of maturation when she was five and a half years old: the front two bottom incisors were gone and halfway replaced by the adult teeth, and all the other baby teeth were present. She, and everyone else in her first grade class, were missing the top two incisors by the spring of their first grade year, and now at the beginning of second grade, most of them have their top two adult incisors. She is seven, and has only lost those four. My middle school students have lost and replaced all four top and bottom incisors, and seem to be at all different places for their canines and bicuspids.

  37. Photography by Ally (5 months ago | reply)

    I wish I could also see what infants look like before their teeth come through. Those canine teeth are so painful.

  38. Photography by Ally (5 months ago | reply)

    dorthypacker1 - my understanding is that you are born with baby teeth and then the adult teeth form within the first two years. So this appears normal for a 5 or 6 year old.

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