Dave5N
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Well you're a freak then. From age 6 normally. Occasionally starts at 5.
Anyway, how can you remember?
Anyway, how can you remember?
is mud corrosive?
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Chuffy
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I remember losing mine. Must have been well past 5.
Chuffy
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Have a close look at your parent's furniture. Check it for baby teeth marks.bonj said:
Chuffy
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Noooo, you're a font of wisdom and knowledge.bonj said:
I have to go now. Elvis is at the door. He's brought some sugar lumps round for Shergar.
Dave5N
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bonj said:
There you go again...
summerdays
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If you have had your teeth capped - apparently the expected life-span is 10 years - well that was what I was told years and years ago.... My caps are now well over 20 years old (bike accident and falling down a slide - different teeth), and I'm not telling them they are past it.
And most kids milk teeth START falling out at 5 or 6, and keep falling out until about age 12 -13.
And most kids milk teeth START falling out at 5 or 6, and keep falling out until about age 12 -13.
Arch
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If I might offer some professional knowledge of mud...
I very much doubt that any mud you encountered could be 'corrosive' enough to unglue your tooth, damage your camelbak, or corrode your brake pads. While different soils do have different levels of acidity or alkalinity, enough to dissolve some types of artefact, we're talking about over periods of years, decades, centuries even. Also, anything corrosive enough to damage stuff like that, so quickly, would damage your skin first - so unless you have extensive chemical burns to your face, I think we can rule corrosion out.
Physical abrasion is more likely. Your brake pads, I suggest, have been ground away, suggesting that this particular mud had a larger particle size, more sandy than silty. You said you had what, a whole 'half mm' when you set out? Don't think it would take long for that to wear away in the right sort of mud.
Your tooth, I suspect just reached the end of it's life, coincidentally. Perhaps got shaken up on the ride, and that was the final straw.
Humans start to lose their milk teeth at around 5 or 6, with the incisors, canines and first molars replaced first up to the age of about 9. Premolars are replaced at about 10 - 12 and the molars from about 13 to 21 (the wisdom teeth).
I very much doubt that any mud you encountered could be 'corrosive' enough to unglue your tooth, damage your camelbak, or corrode your brake pads. While different soils do have different levels of acidity or alkalinity, enough to dissolve some types of artefact, we're talking about over periods of years, decades, centuries even. Also, anything corrosive enough to damage stuff like that, so quickly, would damage your skin first - so unless you have extensive chemical burns to your face, I think we can rule corrosion out.
Physical abrasion is more likely. Your brake pads, I suggest, have been ground away, suggesting that this particular mud had a larger particle size, more sandy than silty. You said you had what, a whole 'half mm' when you set out? Don't think it would take long for that to wear away in the right sort of mud.
Your tooth, I suspect just reached the end of it's life, coincidentally. Perhaps got shaken up on the ride, and that was the final straw.
Humans start to lose their milk teeth at around 5 or 6, with the incisors, canines and first molars replaced first up to the age of about 9. Premolars are replaced at about 10 - 12 and the molars from about 13 to 21 (the wisdom teeth).
Dave5N
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Arch said:
Abitrary (sic) lost all of his by 3 or 4. Is that yet more evidence he/it is inhuman?
Dave5N
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I mean, we already have evidence he can't eat Earth-food and is forced to exist on a monotonous diet of Domino pizza.
Must be all the salt he needs. I have it on expert authority* that long periods of space travel severely depletes your sodium levels.
* well, alright. MIB.
Must be all the salt he needs. I have it on expert authority* that long periods of space travel severely depletes your sodium levels.
* well, alright. MIB.
Thanks for the rational explanation Arch 
where i was riding round ladybower is in the 'dark peak' and is apparently characterized by gritstone, as opposed to the limestone that is in the 'light peak' in the more southerly regions of the peak district.
The term 'gritstone' to me suggests large particle size like you say, and I suppose it makes sense that it therefore has abrasive properties.
where i was riding round ladybower is in the 'dark peak' and is apparently characterized by gritstone, as opposed to the limestone that is in the 'light peak' in the more southerly regions of the peak district.
The term 'gritstone' to me suggests large particle size like you say, and I suppose it makes sense that it therefore has abrasive properties.
Just having another think about this, I think it's worth taking into consideration weather conditions.
The coldness, damp and salt in the air at this time of year could easily have exacerbated the situation, and in fact been the precipitating factor.
So yes, environmental factors in coiincidence with geo-dental factors would have caused this to the extent of leaving little doubt.
The coldness, damp and salt in the air at this time of year could easily have exacerbated the situation, and in fact been the precipitating factor.
So yes, environmental factors in coiincidence with geo-dental factors would have caused this to the extent of leaving little doubt.
Dave5N
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M'Lud, I rest my case.
Arch
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Dave5N said:
Not just from there. I am aware that a jump into hyperspace depletes salt and protein levels, from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Once again, Douglas was right first....
