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What are teeth?
Teeth are hard calcified tissue organs located inside the mouth. It is the hardest tissue in the body.

How the teeth are formed?
They consist of two parts:
a) Crown is the part that looks white.
b) Root or root, which is the part that is inside the bone.

The crown consists of:

• The enamel. It is the white part that covers the crown. Composed especially calcium salts .
• Dentin. That’s the part under the enamel on the crown and cementum on the root. Tissue is softer than enamel and yellow.
• The nerve or pulp. It’s the soft stuff that is inside the tooth, a cavity formed by the dentine. Tissue is responsible for nurturing and defending the tooth, it has blood vessels. It also has nerves that react to any painful stimulus.

The root consists of:

• Cement. It is the outer and replaces the enamel. Dentin. As in the crown.
• The nerve or pulp. As in the crown

What for the teeth?
For chewing or crushing food, essential for proper digestion.
To pronounce words and speak properly.
To preserve the correct shape of the face and therefore good personal presentation.
For good general health.
For psychological and social health.

Should we even visit the dentist without pain or discomfort in your teeth?
Yes, every six or twelve months since its inception decay does not hurt and the constant visits to the dentist that prevents decay occurring progress and greater evils.

What is the gum?
Is the tissue lining the mouth of teeth and bone where they are placed. Helps keep teeth fixed into the jaw. It facilitates the sliding of avoiding foods that are placed on the teeth. It gives good appearance to the jaws.

What does a healthy gums?
Healthy gingiva is pale pink and has a form given by the bone and teeth and the part that lies between tooth and tooth is triangular, mobile and called papillae.

How many kinds of teeth are there?
There are two kinds of teeth: The temporary or milk and the permanent or final.

What are the types of teeth?
When teeth are formed or milk?
Begin to form on the child before birth, hence the importance of the mother used the calcium-rich foods like milk, cheese, because it depends on the good quality of the child’s teeth. It can happen that this delay in the eruption or teething may be normal if not higher than a year. In all children do not go exactly the same age. They can also check out the specific age of six months without problems. May be some minor inconvenience that will soon pass out of the teeth.

When do the baby teeth or milk?
They begin to appear about six months old and ends about two or three years.

How many pieces appear in the temporary or milk teeth?
Listed 20 pieces, 10 above and 10 below.

What is the importance of the primary dentition?
Bred for good chewing of food, essential for proper digestion of children.
They are responsible for keeping the space between the permanent teeth. If you are removed prematurely, the permanent will misplaced or mounted.

When permanent teeth are formed?
Begin to form on the child before birth. This demonstrates the importance of good maternal nutrition during pregnancy, since it depends on the good quality of temporary and permanent teeth.

When permanent teeth appear?
The permanent teeth replace the milk and begin to appear around the six years with the molar tooth call six years. End between eighteen years with the wisdom tooth.

How many pieces are in the permanent dentition?
Listed 32 pieces, 16 below and 16 above.

Where molars or molars out of six?
They leave behind the last milk teeth above and below.

How important is the molar six years?
Pieces are very important, because it depends on good teeth. Much-needed special care with the six-year molars because they move, hold space for the teeth that will come later, not letting go crooked, assembled or misplaced. They are very important for chewing, as when they leave, the baby teeth are falling.

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