Dental Health Magazine Dental Health Digital Issue | Page 11

Issue #5, March 2017
Diagram of Baby Tooth and
Permanent Tooth
Baby tooth vs
Permanent Tooth
and permanent tooth? Below are some
main aspects:
1. Generally, baby teeth appear to be
fairer and whiter while permanent
teeth will give a more yellowish
hue. This is due to higher enamel’s
3. The
neck of baby tooth will be
smaller and getting thinner compare
to permanent tooth. Therefore the
demarcation of crown and root is
clearer in baby tooth.
4. Baby
tooth gets attrited easily
calcium composition in permanent compared to permanent teeth
teeth compared to baby teeth, in mixed dentition as they exist
resulting higher transparency, longer in this mixed dentition and
revealing the yellowish essence of generally permanent teeth have
permanent teeth. higher calcium concentration and
2. The crown of baby tooth is smaller
than permanent tooth. Generally,
when we grow up, the size of
maxilla and mandible will increase,
leading to increasedcapacity of
oral cavity.Therefore it is common
for the crown of permanent tooth
to be bigger.
harder enamel. Baby tooth also has
larger pulp chamber, higher pulp
horns and larger bifurcated roots.
Teeth aid in digestive system
After explaining the differences between
baby tooth and permanent tooth, let’s
find out how each and every type of
teeth help us to taste delicious food.
Depriving of certain
vitamins and
minerals would
cause malnutrition.
Therefore, food
can only be easily
digested and
absorbed for body
use if the food is
chewed properly.
Let’s look at how we can classify them.
I believed everyone realizes that our
teeth are a tool that will help us tear,
crush and grind the food that we eat.
Without proper chewing, unrefined food
will cause indigestion, thus burdening
the digestive system.
A research shown, a toothless person
has higher risk of getting stomach
cancer. Due to the difficulty in eating,
a toothless person can only eat certain
food. Depriving of certain vitamins and
minerals would cause malnutrition.
Therefore, food can only be easily
digested and absorbed for body use if
the food is chewed properly.
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