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How many roots connect your teeth to your gums?
Each tooth can have from one to five roots.Incisals and canines have one root and rarely two.Premolars have two roots, but sometimes they have one, and rarely have three roots.Molars have 3 roots, sometimes four, and rarely five roots.
What is 5 square-roots of two divided by five square-roots of three?
It is sqrt(2/3)
How many roots does tooth 14 have?
Number 14 is the first Molar (Upper Left toward the back). Click below for a site to an interactive tooth chart to help you identify ALL the teeth!
Is it possible to have two cavities in one tooth or is the dentist just trying to double-charge for one filling?
It's possible to have two different cavities in one tooth. It's also possible that it is just one cavity, but it is on two surfaces of the tooth. Each tooth has five surfaces. Each surface added to a filling will be more money.
What is a dental furcation?
It's the part of a tooth where it braches into two (or more) roots. If you imagine a pair of pants, it would be the crotch area of the pants.
Extraction of erupted tooth or exposed root . Extraction surgical root. What is the difference between these two phrases?
what is the difference between a surgical tooth and a erupted toothExtraction of erupted tooth refers to the dentist physically pulling out the tooth due to whatever trauma it has undergone. Extraction of the root is going into the tooth and drilling out the roots, like a root canal.
How many roots do permanent maxillary molars have?
Normally, upper molars have three roots. I have seen strange ones with four, and again sometimes second or third upper molars may have their roots fused together and appear to only have one or two.
What is a rootcanal?
Sometimes an infection in a tooth becomes abscessed. At that point, it becomes necessary either to pull the tooth or to clean out the root and fill it. A root canal means the dentist cleans out the root of the tooth. He or she drills out the nerves and blood supply to the tooth. The tooth may have one, two, three, or four roots. Each root is cleaned out, filled, and then a regular filling is placed in the rest of the tooth.
What is tooth plus tooth?
Two teeth?
What is a two pointed tooth called?
A tooth with two cusps is called a bicuspid or premolar.
What is a tooth called with two points?
A tooth with two cusps is called a bicuspid or premolar.
What is the part of the tooth that anchors it in the jaw?
If you look at a picture of a tooth, you will see the crown of the tooth. That is the top part that is above your gum. The root(s) are the anchors. Some teeth have one root and some have a few. Easy chart I found online: Laterals have one root (these are your front teeth) Canines and most premolars, except for maxillary (upper) first premolars, usually have one root. Maxillary (upper) first premolars and mandibular (lower) molars usually have two roots. Maxillary (upper) molars usually have three roots.
