Anatom3DTeeth
Dentes · Zuby
Skeleton
Looks like
Thirty-two adult teeth: enamel over softer dentine, with a living pulp inside and a root in bone.
What it does
Cut, tear and grind food, and shape speech.
Keeping it well
Fluoride paste on the surface cuts decay by about a quarter; it is meant to be spat out, not swallowed, and a child needs only a smear. Sugar frequency beats sugar amount. Enamel does not grow back.
Its parts
- Enamel
- Dentin
- Pulp
- Gums & periodontal ligament
- Lower first secondary molar tooth
- Lower first secondary premolar tooth
- Lower second secondary molar tooth
- Lower second secondary premolar tooth
- Lower central secondary incisor tooth
- Lower lateral secondary incisor tooth
- Lower secondary canine tooth
- Upper first secondary molar tooth
- Upper first secondary premolar tooth
- Upper second secondary molar tooth
- Upper second secondary premolar tooth
- Upper central secondary incisor tooth
- Upper lateral secondary incisor tooth
- Upper secondary canine tooth
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Bad breath (halitosis)
- Botulism
- Burning mouth syndrome
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Dental abscess
- Fibromyalgia
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Hand, foot and mouth disease
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Impacted wisdom teeth
- Lichen planus
- Lyme disease
- Mouth ulcers (aphthous stomatitis)
- Myasthenia gravis
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Pemphigus vulgaris
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sarcoma
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Stevens–Johnson syndrome / toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Teeth grinding (bruxism)
- Tetanus
- Tooth decay & gum disease
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency