Adam Hebden is not the first York baby to be born with two front teeth, it seems.

Readers contacted the Evening Press after reading about baby Adam, who shocked his parents, Andy and Emma, of Highthorn Road, this week when he came into the world at York District Hospital already equipped with gnashers.

Canadian journalist Andrea Russell, who lives at Heslington, pointed out a regal precedent. "When I saw the story I remembered the line about teeth from reading Richard III," she said.

Richard III was actually said to have been born with long hair as well as teeth.

Meanwhile, Isabel Willams, of Chapelfields, York, says jaws dropped at Acomb Hospital when her husband, Robert, now 52, was born with teeth.

"They disappeared after a few weeks. Nobody ever knew where they went. They weren't sure if he had swallowed them or they had dropped out," she said.

"In those days nobody could afford cameras to take a photograph, but his mother always told him about it.

"He is not bothered about losing his two front teeth, but he wishes he could have kept his hair."

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