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Teeth are used to chew food, this is a process called mastication. The teeth help break the food into smaller pieces, while the food is predigested by your saliva. This makes the food easier to swallow, and travel down your esophagus.
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What teeth do you use in physical digestion?
All teeth are used in physical digestion and break-down of food before swallowing.
What are used as a main structure in mechanical digestion?
Teeth
Why do animals grow teeth?
For the same reason as humans. Teeth are essential for the mastication (chewing) stage of digestion. Teeth can also be used as a defence mechanism for many animals.
How is machanicle digestion different for cheminal digestion?
mechanical digestion is with your teeth , chemical digestion is in your stomach and small intestine.
How does the health of a person's teeth affect digestion?
Teeth are involved in the mechanical digestion process. If they are not healthy they will not work properly to chew food.
Are teeth chemical or mechanical digestion?
Salivary Glands performs Chemical Digestion
What kind of digestion happens when teeth cut up food?
That would be mechanical digestion.
What is the function of the teeth in digestion?
To chew the food.
What is the importance of teeth?
Teeth are used to chew, to cut, to tear, to grind, to help you pronounce your speech, and to bite! That can make digestion easier, so it's good for the stomach!
Why animals must have teeth?
So they can chew (to prevent choking) and enzymes (saliva-for digestion) for digestion.
How do the teeth aid in the digestion of food?
Teeth help by mechanical digestion, which is breaking the food in smaller pieces in order for the saliva to cover it and make it easier to digest.
What type of digestion is teeth grinding food?
our teeth break down food physically which is called mechanical break down
