‘Curiosities on teeth’

Curiosities on teeth

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Did you know the number and shape of teeth varies with age, your dog also needs to have clean teeth or teeth in the rodent incisors grow continuously …?

1. Our teeth say our age
Did you know that if I could only see our mouth, and nothing else, the dentist may find our age and our gender? Depending on the type and number of teeth you have in your mouth the dentist can find out your age. Thus the first molar is known as “the six-year molar” because it goes to 6 years old.

The adults who already have left permanent teeth can tell if you are elderly or young people badly worn teeth indicate that the person is an old man, while good teeth are a young man.

Also in adults can find out the sex and big teeth normally relate to young men and women, although there are intermediate cases where it is difficult to sex.

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