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What about people who have had limbs amputated?
Do teeth count as part of the skeleton? If you've lost teeth do you only have 99% of a skeleton left?
According to this, bones don't start forming until the sixth or seventh week of gestation, so does the fetus technically not have a skeleton before then?
So many questions
I’d argue teeth aren’t skeleton because they’re not made of the same substance as bone - the outside is enamel and dentin whereas bones are collagen, protein and minerals (mostly calcium). Kinda like how hair and nails don’t count because they’re made of keratin.