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smile treatment. Please feel free to contact our office with any additional questions you may have. What is a gummy smile? A gummy smile is a smile that shows too much gum. For instance, your gum tissue may extend too far over the crown of your tooth. When you smile, you may not display as much of your…

Enamel is the hardest substance in the body, which it has to be to endure the biting forces of everyday mastication and clenching that people often put their teeth through. Enamel is the outer layer on the crown of the tooth which give the teeth that is esthetically pleasing to the eye. However, enamel is not able to replenish itself so once it is gone there is no way for the body to regenerate more. A 12-year-old female girl has new molars coming in and the appearance of them is a…

BENEFITS OF CHEWING GUM you will be surprised if I were to tell you that chewing gum is not a modern thing. It has been around for over three thousand years. Everyone from Neolithic times to the ancient Greek used to chew gum in some form. The earliest gum was made of latex, and then it shifted to bark of birch tree, then different gums from various plants and grasses and finally the more modern version of flavored sweetened gum. From the ancient times gum was used to treat dental illness, as it…

Surname: Vilakazi Grade: 9L Teacher: Ms Mhlongo Science Investigation Question: Which soda water is the most harmful towards human teeth (for this investigation I will use egg shells because they have more or less everything in common with a human tooth)? Hypothesis: Coca Cola is the most harmful towards human teeth, and I say this because it contains more sugar than Coca Cola zero, Pepsi, Sprite and Distilled water, making it more harmful or corrosive to human teeth because this means that it…

teeth get darker. The bulk of the tooth consists of dentin. Dentin is a substance that is kind of like bone but it is harder. Covering the dentin is a tough durable layer named enamel. “ Enamel is composed primarily of calcium phosphate and is the hardest substance in the body.” (Graaff & Fox 1999) “Enamel consist of approximately 97% calcified (inorganic) materials and only 3% organic material and water.” (Thibodeau & Patton 1999) That means that the tooth is not like any other part of the…

world. This is the process of when fluoride is added to water to prevent tooth decay, which toughens the enamel of teeth in children and adults, but has been a health issue in communities (“Fluoride Information Network”, n.d). The way that tooth decay forms is with bacteria that make acid to remove minerals from teeth. Therefore, fluoride prevents the cavities from expanding throughout the mouth. Other than just preventing tooth decay, water fluoridation prevents infection, loss of teeth, pain,…

As soon as your little one shows sign of their very first tooth we start thinking of teeth brushing and the dentist. As a matter of fact I started way before Madison got her first tooth, because I would use a soft wash cloth and wipe her gums. Once her tooth showed up around 5 months of age I got one of those silicone finger brushes and started our brushing routine. Since then it's been toothbrush after toothbrush trying to find that one toothbrush we just LOVE! I can tell you that throughout…

Other techniques that will be discussed is the utilization of visual assessment of dental abnormalities in tooth formation and eruption that a person may present with such as, amelogenesis imperfecta, which is disorder in the enamel tooth development. Although there seems to be only some few limitations to the methods used for person identification, there are a couple of literatures that discuss the discrepancies that may…

Believe I believe that there is no tooth fairy,or santa clause,or leprechaun,or easter bunny.There is no such thing as those simulated,Imaginary folktales. Just like one time earlier in my age about when I was three or five…..kids were super excited when they lose their teeth. They would say “The tooth fairy is going to my house…..I am going to be rich!!!!” I of course thought…. what the heck are they talking about.My parents always tought me at this age that the tooth fairy and the other…

"Are teeth supposed to be backwards?" I hated 4th grade out of all the grades 1-5. I already don't like school as a whole (no offense to you) but if there was a least favorite, I'd be fourth. The classes were boring and I had gotten sick of the building. It got worse as I went up a grade also because some of my favorite teachers would retire right when I left them, leaving the spot open for a horribly mean one. The only somewhat satisfying thing were the field trips. They diminished going…