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Cool experiments to do with milk teeth? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by BennyInc@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Some kids in my family start losing their milk teeth. 🦷

While we don’t do the tooth fairy 🧚 stuff, I wondered whether there’s any cool kid-friendly experiments 🔬 to do with their deciduous teeth? Like dissolving them in easily available liquids to teach them the importance of brushing, or maybe some material strength tests to show how cool enamel is?

Hit me with some cool ideas, I‘ve got a few teeth to experiment with 😃

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[–] humdrumgentleman@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You know how this goes, right?

The resulting thirst for scientific knowledge results in unparalleled technological advancement, but also an endless demand deciduous teeth for further experimentation. Eventually their personally-developed, secretly manufactured and deployed microdrone monitoring network alerts them every time any child loses a tooth in the Western world. Slightly larger drones sneak into the home and collect the tooth. In an attempt to avoid further pressing of ethical boundaries, the drones are equipped to carry in small amounts of currency that are left in place of the tooth. Your family, more literally and on a larger scale than any family before, DOES the tooth fairy 🧚 stuff.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nice try, James Cameron

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Love that you intrgrated "thirst" into your overture there :)

[–] Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 4 points 1 year ago

In hindsight, maybe I shouldn't have suggested using baby teeth as a novel piezoelectric material. If juvenile biomineralogical apatite turns out to be a better material to make crystal oscillators than quartz, I've literally just created industrial demand for the bones of children.

Oh well. Cat is out of the bag now. Turned out not to be an effective or humane way to store cats anyway.

[–] ivenoidea@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Teeth for the tooth god!