Quick Answer. An experimental variable is something that a scientist changes during the course of an experiment. It is distinguished from a controlled variable, which could theoretically change, but the scientists keep constant. Continue Reading.
While you were pregnant, your baby developed tooth buds, the foundation for baby teeth (also called milk teeth). Very rarely, a baby is born with a tooth or two, or grows a tooth in the first few weeks of life. But the vast majority of babies sprout their first tooth sometime between 4 and 7 months old.
Kids start to lose their primary teeth, or baby teeth, at about 6 years old. This begins a phase of permanent tooth development that lasts over the next 15 years, as the jaw steadily grows into its adult form. From ages 6 to 9, the incisors and first molars start to come in. Between ages 10 and 12, the first and second premolars, as well as the canines, erupt. From 11 to 13, the second molars come in. The wisdom teeth (third molars) erupt between the ages of 17 and 21.