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dot com and secure your seats today it's tuesday september 6th 2020 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. How analyzing baby teeth might be able to facilitate early intervention for childhood adversity. Plus, archaeologists have found the skeleton of a 17th century woman accused of being a vampire.

And yet another Artemis update, including why the latest scrubbed launch attempt can kind of be blamed on the space shuttle.

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It might be a tough sell to get your kids to donate their baby teeth to science instead of playing their luck with the tooth fairy, but if they do, their teeth could help us learn more about human development in general and potentially even about the future health of their former pint-sized owners.

Earlier this year, Vox profiled psychiatric epidemiologist Aaron Dunn,

who calls herself the Science Tooth Fairy,

some intentional branding to try to persuade those tooth donations,

and Felicitas Bidlack, a specialist in tooth development.

Studies over the years have shown that tooth growth patterns can reveal a history of illness or physical injury,

and that traces of toxins and pesticides and teeth might even reveal harmful exposures that children endured.

But Dunn and Bidlack are investigating whether the enamel layers of baby teeth could indicate incidents of childhood trauma or adversity.

The hope would be that as kids lose their teeth, doctors could look them over to assess their

psychological development, determine any hardships they could be experiencing, and ensure they're on

track generally when it comes to health.

Teeth are a regularly used, hearty source of information for archaeologists. For decades,

teeth have been used to learn all sorts of information about ancient human specimens,

age, stressors like illness, exposure to metals like lead and copper, but before a colleague

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