• Question: What makes peoples teeth crooked?

    Asked by clairemac12311 to Aggelos, Andrew, Eileen, Naomi, Shane on 16 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Naomi Elster

      Naomi Elster answered on 16 Nov 2012:

      Probably lack of calcium and minerals in the diet, which means the jaw is not strong enough to support the teeth so they can grow straight.

    • Photo: Andrew Jackson

      Andrew Jackson answered on 17 Nov 2012:

      hi. David McKeown over in the Space Zone has given a really good answer to this the other day https://spacen12.iasie.ddev.site/2012/11/14/how-do-people-teeth-go-crooked-o/

    • Photo: Eileen Diskin

      Eileen Diskin answered on 18 Nov 2012:

      There’s a few things that can cause this to happen. A lot of people are just born that way…but in some cases, having an injury can cause them to grow crooked. Or, if you have a tooth taken out, the other teeth can grow in towards the gap, since there’s nothing keeping them straight.

      Thankfully, we have things like braces which can solve the problem if it gets really serious!

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