tooth bud , także: tooth germ

Tooth buds, which will form the baby teeth, appear.

Between the ninth and twelfth, tiny tooth buds appear.

The tooth buds are then shown to the parent, their small, milky appearance somewhat resembling worms.

This did not occur with the tooth buds in the treated chicks, presumably because birds had lost the ability to make these two substances.

The underlying permanent tooth buds can be damaged or eradicated, causing malformations and long term crowding.

They should be left in the mouth as long as possible to decrease the likelihood of removing permanent tooth buds with the natal tooth.

During primary dentition, the tooth buds of permanent teeth develop below the primary teeth, close to the palate or tongue.

But the surgeons advise against removing wisdom tooth buds in children, since it is not possible to predict with certainty how the teeth will eventually be positioned.

In mice, two classes of cells are generated which swathe the tooth buds in layers of dentin and enamel.

Your baby's tooth buds, palate and tongue are forming too, while the ears continue to develop and eyelids are starting to cover your baby's eyes.

The permanent teeth replacements develop from the same teeth buds as the deciduous teeth, which provide guides for permanent teeth eruptions.

The removal of deciduous canine tooth buds in early childhood is a practice that has been documented in the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania.

Another reason for correction age 5 or older is that the surgery should be delayed until the tooth buds have grown out low enough into the maxilla, thus preventing damage to them.

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire stated in 1821 that he had found a considerable number of tooth buds in the upper and lower jaws of the Rose-ringed Parakeet.

Spelling the possible demise for the phrase "as scarce as hen's teeth," a team of researchers at Harvard Medical School and elsewhere has succeeded in making chick embryos grow tooth buds.

In the development of tooth buds frequently result in congenitally absent teeth (in many cases a lack of a permanent set) and/or in the growth of teeth that are peg-shaped or pointed.

I explained that my grandfather and my younger brother had both been born with sparse hair, missing tooth buds (which required them to wear dentures, even as children), and no sweat glands, making hot weather unbearable and even dangerous.

She also spent time educating Acoli mothers who were uninformed about medical science and were utilising the traditional practice of ebino, the extraction of infants' canine tooth buds, which supposedly cures disease, but in fact often causes bacterial infections.

By inserting BMP4-laden beads into the jaw region of chick embryos, they showed that tooth buds would develop, Dr. Richard Maas and colleagues report in today's issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Tfae preg- nancy was stUI early, not bothering her to any noticeable extent, and the teething was the eruption of tooth buds planted by Tilaran surgeons to replace the forty teeth the Demu had taken from her when they had her captive.

The healer will point out the small, white, developing tooth buds as being "tooth worms", and then dig the "worms" out of the gums without anaesthesia using a non-sterile tool such as a hot or sharpened nail, a bicycle spoke, or a knitting needle.

When my brother Luke was born, his skin was so dry and flaky that the doctor said, "We should take him down for an X-ray just to rule out E.D." Later, Luke's pediatrician poked his head into my parents' hospital room and said simply, "There are no tooth buds."