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It depends. If it is soft food you want to use your top two front teeth but if it is a hard food like a carrot you want to use the molers closest to the tip of your tongue. I'm not sure what they are called though. hope i helped.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoWe use our canins to tear food that's why lions have bigger and stronger canines.
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∙ 13y agoThey are called your 'canines'.
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∙ 13y agodepends on how you want to do it
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∙ 11y agocanines
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What is responsible for cutting and tearing and grinding food?
teeth
What is the name of the teeth that is used for tearing and cutting food?
The sharp ones are canine teeth And the back ones are molers
What is designed in your body for gripping and tearing food?
Your teeth. You have incisors for cutting. Canines for grabbing And molars for grinding your food.
Names of teeth and their function?
Central Incisors = Cutting food. Premolars = Grinding food. (Though Molars do most of the grinding) Molars = Grinding and tearing food. Canines = Tearing Food.
What are the purposes of the various teeth in the human mouth?
the front teeth sre for ripping the food, the back teeth are for grinding the food
What teeth are used for mashing food?
Premolars and molars are used for mashing and grinding food.. Canines are for tearing meat and incisors are used for cutting chunks of food off.
What four pointy teeth that tear food called?
Canine teeth
What are incisors and what are they used for?
Incisors are your anterior teeth. The 4 front teeth on the top arch and 4 front teeth on the bottom arch. Starting from the center are for each arch: 2 central incisors (Front teeth), then 2 lateral incisors - one on each side of the 2 centrals, then there are also 2 canine teeth (eye-teeth or cuspids)- one on each side of the 4 incisors. All of the 8 anterior incisors plus the 4 canines are used to bite into food and for cutting or tearing food with the canines doing most of the work.
Which teeth are used for tearing food apart?
Canine
What teeth are designed for gripping and tearing food?
becuse teeth are use for eating foods
What function do the incisor teeth have that molar teeth do not?
incisors are for tearing food and molars are for mashing
What teeth are used to stab and tear into food?
Canines are the sharp-pointed teeth that are used for tearing and stabbing food.
