Eli5: why is when a bone shatters it can rebuild itself but when a tooth gets a hole in it it just keeps eating away at it

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Eli5: why is when a bone shatters it can rebuild itself but when a tooth gets a hole in it it just keeps eating away at it

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Because teeth and bones aren’t the same. Teeth have no system within them to bring in nutrients like bones do.

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