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Do other animals have milk teeth?

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December 2025

AS DIPHYODONTS, HUMANS HAVE two sets of teeth: our milk (or deciduous) teeth, and our permanent teeth.

- Beki Hooper

Do other animals have milk teeth?

One of the main reasons we have two sets of teeth is because we eat solids long before our jaws are fully grown. If our permanent teeth erupted when we started eating solids, they'd have to be very small and we'd therefore have lots of empty space in our mouths as we grew up.

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