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Anatomy of a Tooth 0

Anatomy of a Tooth

In order to understand some of the details of why it is important to clean your teeth or keep your pearly whites clean, you need to understand the physical makeup of our teeth and/or how our teeth are structured.  Without using too much dental jargon, I’ll try to give you a snapshot version of the makeup of our teeth. So let’s build a tooth. Our teeth have two sections, like a plant, there’s the top (crown) which sits above our gums and the roots which are underneath our gums. Enamel:  This is most outer layer of each tooth, this is what...