Think the title is straightforward enough. Can’t sleep and I’ve kinda been wondering about this for a while.
In: Biology
The way you phrased your question make it seems like hair growth where cells in the follicule produce the hair in a continious prossess. But it’s not like that for teeth, humans are born with their full sets of teeth (baby teeth and permanent teeth) they’re just high up in their skull (babies’ skulls are creepy as fuck) and they errupt in our mouth as we age (they are pushed to the surface of the gums). So all of those teeth are formed during the embryonic and foetal development, so from embryonic cells that differentiate into a set amount of teeth. it’s similar as the formation of, let say vertebrae for exemple, exept it’s teeth.
Sorry if my explanation doesn’t make sense i’m severely sleep deprived
you already have all of your teeth in your head when you are born. they are not procedurally generated.
edit to add https://images.app.goo.gl/fNHftP7yMtqVxRRS6
pic of teeth in infant skull.
Adult teeth are created in the jaw of a human fetus in utero and are typically fully formed at birth. They are formed from embryonic cells, starting in about the 20th week of pregnancy.
you always had thos teeth since birth, dont look up exray of babys you will see some horrifing imagages.
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