How your teeth works?
Hey friends, have you ever wondered about your walnut-breaking tooth work. So today let's explore the office of teeth.
So friends, as we all know your teeth help you chew your food while eating, assist you while talking and makes you look better when you smash a smile for selfies. But there is a lot about his essential tool we call the teeth. So let us first know about the types, parts, in's and out's of teeth.
1.Primary teeth
Although you are born with 20 baby teeth until they start to come through the gums when you are about 6 to 12 months old and by the time you are 2 to 3 years of age all the teeth will usually appear. This process called teething is called the primary teeth, baby teeth and milk teeth.
2.Permanent teeth
As you get around five to six years of age these primary teeth began to fall one after the other. This is because it is being pushed out of the way by the permanent teeth that are behind it and gradually replaces the primary teeth. By the time you are around 12 or 13 most of you have lost all your baby teeth and have a full set of permanent teeth.
3.Wisdom teeth
But it's not over yet. Between the age of 17 and 25, most of you will have fourth teeth called wisdom teeth that grow at the back of the mouth to complete the adult set of 32 shiny white teeth.
These 32 teeth are divided into 4 types.
1.Incisors
These are your eight front teeth with four on the top and four at the bottom. They help you to cut your food into small pieces making it easier to swallow.
2.Canine
These are the sharp, pointy teeth next to your incisors. There are two on the bottom and two on the top. They help you tear food, especially chewy foods like meat.
3.Premolars
They are called Bicuspids located next to your canine teeth. They are somewhat flat with ridges on top. They are four on each side and helps you to crush and grind the food you eat as they are stronger than the incisors and canines. But not the strongest.
4.Molars
Because that title goes to the Molars located in the back of your mouth and there are four on both the top and the bottom.
5.Third molar
Finally comes the fifth type of tooth that is somewhat rare in most people the third molar also known as a wisdom tooth. Wisdom teeth can sometimes be removed because they can crowd and damage other teeth causing pain.
FUN FACTS
Did you know experts believe that wisdom teeth may have been needed by people millions of years ago who had larger jaws and ate food that required a lot of chewing like raw meat? Also, did you know that right-handed people chew food on the right side of their mouths and left-handed people on their left?
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