APPEARANCE OF THE TEETH
The normal child has:
Six teeth at one year.
Twelve teeth at one and one-half years.
Sixteen teeth at two years.
Twenty teeth at two and one-half years.
When the child is six years old the first permanent tooth appears just back of the last of the milk teeth. By the time he is seven, the four central teeth, two above and two below, are out and the new ones begin to appear. The order of their appearances is as follows:
| Four first molars | 6 years |
| Four central incisors | 7 years |
| Four lateral incisors | 8 years |
| Four first bicuspids | 9 to 10 years |
| Four second bicuspids | 10 to 11 years |
| Four canines | 11 to 13 years |
| Four second molars | 12 to 15 years |
| Four third molars | 17 to 25 years |