teeth

     

Teeth (singular, tooth) are small white structures foun in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates that are used to tear, scrape, milk and chew food. Some animals, particularly carnivores, also use teeth for hunting or defense. The roots of teeth are covered by gums.

Trivia about teeth

  • One suffering from bruxomania unconsciously gnashes these
  • Rule 200 says if a man knocketh these out of an equal, his shall be knocked out, too
  • An average Dutch person has twee en dertig, 32, of these, tanden
  • Baleen whales strain food like plankton from the water because they don't have these
  • Water is fluoridated to help prevent these body parts from decaying
  • Malocclusion is a problem with these body parts
  • Cadmus planted these parts of a dragon to raise some troops
  • Most felines have 30 of these (including the canines)
  • Your deciduous ones usually appear at about 6 months, your permanent ones at about 6 years
  • It's been estimated that a shark may use over 20,000 of these in a lifetime, with many in reserve rows
  • Though all species have bony plates on both jaws, no living turtle has these
  • While an alligator has about 80 of these at any one time, they wear down & are eventually replaced
  • It's not pulp fiction, it's a fact that you have pulp cavities inside these body parts
  • When spaghetti is cooked "al dente", it means it's firm to this body part
  • When old ones are lost new ones quickly move in & replace them
  • Most of the shark fossils found have been of this body part & they've even been found in the Midwestern U.S.
  • Denti-
  • Whether they've been removed or haven't grown in, a person who's edentulous lacks these
  • An animal that's described as heterodont has different kinds of these
  • Mature domestic pigs have 44 permanent ones of these, which replace 28 temporary ones
  • Dedentition is just the loss of these; an odontectomy removes them
  • Dolphins & porpoises belong to a suborder called Odontoceti, which means they have these
  • Each of these is made up of 4 kinds of tissue: pulp, dentin, enamel & cementum
  • In most fish, they're distributed over the palate; in mammals, they're only in the jawbone
  • Choppers,grinders,ivories
  • It's the part of your body that Aim is made to be used on
  • Whales are divided into 2 groups, those that have baleen & those that have these instead
  • Most animals known as anteaters are of the order edentata, meaning without these
  • Kittens have 26 of these, adult cats 30
  • In reptiles these choppers are conical & uniform; in mammals they have various shapes & sizes
  • Jonathan Swift wrote, "I am as old as my tongue, and a little older than" these
  • All 20 deciduous ones usually erupt by age 3
  • Unlike birds today, the hesperonis of the cretaceous period had these, all the better to eat fish with
  • In an aardvark these are diiferent from yours; they have no enamel
  • Les dents
  • Whales of the suborder Odontoceti have these; others don't
  • From the size of these body parts, Australopithecus boisei became known as "Nutcracker Man"
  • The normal human body has 20 deciduous ones of these
  • We don't know how old Itzamna could have pronounced his name, as he had none of these
  • Sound Bites Lollipops transmit sounds & radio signals into your head when you touch the pops to these
  • Dentin, which is harder than bone, surrounds the pulp of these

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