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THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER 4E SUNDAY JUNE 28 1898 LIVING advice iroui ruWli-llp raTts WHS Should you pull your loose tooth? Most dentists say no depending on the situation you should just let it come on out on its own" says Dr James Brittain a Charlotte pediatric dentist that loose the tooth will come out on its own But if really bothering the child you can get a damp washcloth or gauze sponge and grasp the tooth You really hold the tooth they're pretty slippery Just give it a little tug and it should come If there are other factors present swelling or pain the parent should call the dentist immediately KIDS from IE The fact that our teeth fall out when little is an experience that unites us all We bet you given this much thought We tend to take our teeth and our tongues for that matter for granted just there like spit doing important jobs probably rather not think too much about Do we consider how without them have to gum our barbecue slur our words and do away with com on the cob altogether? Without teeth our gums would chatter in the cold of winter have nothing to grind at night in our sleep But as it is apart from flossing brushing and checking after lunch to see if spinach is stuck between them we usually pay our teeth little attention Unless a kid If 5 6 or 7 years old then you know that losing a tooth is a Big Event If you have ever been 5 6 or 7 chances are you have some vivid memories of blood doorknobs and string (Teeth are also a big deal when a teething baby But too young to talk about going on in your mouth So you just cry a lot And the braces ordeal but another story too) the scientific explanation ORTEGA GAINESStaff front tooth but finds not quite ready to yank out He faces a few The deciduous teeth start to form about Th months before a baby is bom As the teeth grow they push through the gums Most kids have all their baby teeth by age 2 By the time a child is about 4 most of the permanent teeth have formed within the jaws near the roots of the baby teeth Now comes the excitement: When about 3 the roots of our baby teeth begin to dissolve By the time a permanent tooth is ready to erupt the crown of the baby tooth then becomes loose and falls out There are 20 baby teeth 10 in each jaw There are 32 permanent teeth 16 in each jaw Kids have usually lost all their teeth by age 12 And what about other animals? Birds toads and turtles have teeth Elephant tusks are actually incisors that have become very long Beavers rats and other rodents have teeth that grow continuously Fish and reptiles lose and replace their teeth all the time Gross and cool But we suspect few creatures get as thrilled about loose teeth as a child As Kameka will remind you part of the excitement is directly related to peer pressure: There are the who and the who have also the grossness factor: Show most grown-ups a dangling tooth and see them shiver! Eeww! And of course the monetary thrill of it all: Reggie Bittle says the Tooth Fairy tucked $9908 under his pillow So the rite of losing a tooth is not so much a matter of moving toward adulthood just something cool that happens saw one boy lose his tooth at Kameka says yelled out without raising his hand about to lose a Then just before story time he tugged it out pulled some out Kameka says they feel like wiggling by themselves you know was eating some chicken and my tooth was wiggling and I bit down another time and it came says Reggie Sadler 6 was inside my chicken! I had to dig it out of the first tooth I pulled says Reggie Bittle was at day care! My teacher said want to pull your tooth and I said It hurt but I was a little nervous I showed my friends They said that a real I did this in the mirror (he grins big) I thought I looked like new books Loose by Robert Munsch (Scholastic $1095) When Andrew bites into his breakfast he yells So his parents a wacky dentist his friend Louis and a biker Tooth Fairy try ways to pull the loose tooth by Tedd Arnold (Dial $1499) When a 5-year-old boy loses a tooth and starts finding hair in his comb he decides his body is falling apart Lost Tooth by Arden Johnson (Triangle Press $1395) Olivia tries all sorts of sneaky ways to get into the Lost Tooth Club even though her tooth hasn't fallen out TF by Karen Ray (DK Publishing $1595) (Coming in September) Until she meets the Tooth Fairy Alex Van-dershoot has thought of herself as just a regular kid even if at 7V2 she is the last one in her class to have all her baby teeth Jen Fischer Krentz Cody Oliver 6 tugs at his loose more days of wiggling! Sophia Giler 6 has not lost a tooth yet She even have one that wiggles And not anxious for the moment to come scared to lose she says I put it under my pillow and put my head on my pillow that might squeeze the tooth out onto the floor and it would be my sister lost hers there was blood coming says Mar-iah Hector 6 A few days later Kameka reaches for a crisp red apple opens her mouth wide and chomps blissfully An apple you say? With that wobbly incisor of hers? But Kameka only smiles at your disbelief: Over the weekend she LOST HER LOOSE TOOTH! she says pulling down her lower lip to show the space came out without bleeding I was playing with my ring in my mouth and it came The Tooth Fairy left 50 cents under her fluffy pillow Kameka wants to head to the store Meantime she plans to eat all the crunchy apples she can Win a computer from Circuit City and The Observer Plus a full-year subscription to charlottecom Look for an entry form through July 2 in The new personal technology section in Thursday Business (The Charlotte (Pbserar WHERE SMART SHOPPERS START hat docs the tOOth fairy look like? Better ask Reggie Bittle (above) about that He saw her know I was sleeping he says saw her little chains made out of teeth She wears them like bracelets She saw me peeking at her but she gave me money anyway" What was she wearing? pink sparkly gown She had a wand and her wand did the money It looked like a stick with a star on top Her face looked like Tinker Bell on told my friend Jeremy Jeremy said you see her It was yellow and it was in a ponytail right back behind the universal fall-out? Teeth are hard bone-like little things that are in fact the hardest parts of our bodies made of four kinds of tissues pulp dentin enamel and cementum that are a mixture of blood vessels nerves mineral salts and water Humans grow two sets of teeth: deciduous (baby) and permanent when the station was bought by AH Belo Corp whose flagship property is the Dallas Morning News and Terri are two of the most respected meteorologists in the region top-shelf says Keith Connors new executive news director here just three months after leading the news division at the Belo-owned WVEC in Norfolk Va are up and we believe Ray and Terri are going to be a big part of growing WCNC into a full-service news Behind the scenes Boylan and Bennett have been working to reorganize the weather department and oversee upgrades to its forecasting equipment Connors say how much the station has spent this year but investments have included a new Doppler radar system billed as Skymax and a storm tracking system called ViPiR5D capable of analyzing a thunder cloud down to the rotation of air within it been a positive shift away from the fancy fly-through stuff that adds absolutely nothing to Boylan says capitalized the things we thought were important to weather not just smoke and mirrors and bells and particularly impressed with the technology liken it to an MRI in a hospital: We can take a thunderstorm and strip it down to its elements while he says gives us more time to Boylan takes that early alert role seriously and fclks about it like a Back on weather beat and co-workers work i Boylan on changes WCNC from IE But even at home in Matthews the Boylans seem inclined to a life of leisure active with the nonprofit Assistance League of Charlotte he runs a weather consulting business he started 18 years ago and writes about trends in I meteorology In November when WCNC I president and general manager Rick Keilty offered Boylan a new job his initial reservations about going back to work but about how it would affect WCNC weatherman Larry Sprinkle has been a great friend for Boylan says told them going to replace him simply because not a meteorologist not going to be the vehicle for doing Sprinkle will remain This summer shift to the newscasts at 5 and 5 30 to make way for Boylan In the fall Boylan after starting at 6 and 11 will move to those earlier spots and Sprinkle will start new weath-ercasts when the station unveils morning and noon news shows That will leave the high-profile broadcasts at 6 and 1 1 pm to new chief meteorologist Terri Bennett whom WCNC hired when WSOC make her chief meteorologist replacing Boylan The timing of Boylan 's return to the air this week and in the fall coincidental Their contracts with WSOC stipulated that they not work for a local competitor for a year Their debuts on WCNC long No 3 in news ratings among network affiliates is part of a building phase begun a year ago calling more about responsibility than ratings he says Boylan get into broadcasting until 1975 when he retired from the Navy He was always a meteorologist though and spent some of his naval career flying low through hurricanes were an extension of the National Hurricane Center we provided the raw he says used to say it was hours of sheer boredom interspersed with moments of sheer A good meteorologist takes the terror out of severe weather he says The danger of the new weather broadcasting technology is overuse For an audience tired of breathless false alarms the weatherman could become the boy who cried wolf machines give us the information but we have to deliver the message in the right way Sometimes the message can get tainted we want to frighten or alarm people unnecessarily On the other hand an opportunity now for TV to work in the public interest and for the public Boylan relishes the role and is eager to get back on the air His plans for retirement are like a year ago still evolving would define retirement loosely as not doing the 11 he says and laughs Besides third career as dinner theater impresario is just beginning He and his partners have architectural plans in hand and have scouted potential sites Now looking for financial backing What will it be called? 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