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What are roots covered with?
The root of a tooth are covered with cementum which is much softer than enamel.
What is the name of the tissue that covers the crown of your tooth?
The crown has dentin covered by enamel, each root has dentin covered by cementum. The inner portion of the dentin of both the crown and the root also covers the pulp cavity of the tooth close to the CEJ.
What is the entire portion of the tooth covered with enamel called?
The part of the tooth that is covered with enamel is the crown.
What is the top part of the tooth that is covered by?
crown , enamel
Portion of tooth embedded in bone?
Enamel (outer part, hard), dentin (under enamel), pulp (center, where most nerves are), cementum (covers root of tooth)
What Section of the tooth where the anatomical crown meets the anatomical root is called?
The section of the tooth where the anatomical crown meets the anatomical root is called the cementoenamel junction (CEJ). This junction marks the transition between the enamel covering the crown and the cementum covering the root.
What is the main substance of a tooth?
The main substance of a tooth is dentin, which is a hard tissue that makes up the majority of the tooth structure. It is covered by enamel on the outer layer and connected to the pulp at the center of the tooth.
What is CEJ?
CEJ is shorthand for "Cemento-Enamel-Junction. This is the point on a tooth that delineates the crown from the root of the tooth.
Describe the structure of a typical mammalian tooth?
The structure of the tooth is as follows: cementum, root canal, enamel.
The root of a tooth is covered by?
The root of a healthy tooth has an outside surface called cementum.
What does a tooth consist of?
enamel found only in the crown of the tooth ( the exposed part of the tooth ), dentin found in both the crown and the root of the tooth ( root : the embedded part of the tooth ) and cement which hold the tooth in it's place
What do you call the white covering of the tooth?
It is called the enamel. It's the most external layer of a tooth and the hardest substance in the body.
