subject: Types Of Teeth And Ways To Protect Each Type [print this page] Usually most people believe teeth are just teeth, but there are different types of teeth in the mouth and all of them need daily and consistent maintenance habits to ensure that they continue to serve you well as long as possible. Sick teeth can cause numerous other health conditions that are avoidable. Among the most common are diet related ailments as weak teeth may require you to eat only certain types of foods.
Other ailments that come as a result of poor dental hygiene and dental conditions include infections that may arise from infections in the mouth spreading infection to other parts of the body. Sick teeth may also cause your immune system to work unnecessarily hard, therefore making it harder for your body to fight other infections in any other part of the body. It is therefore important to take care of ones teeth in the best way possible.
Types Of Teeth And Habits To Maintain Healthy Teeth
There are different types of teeth in the mouth and each type is best suited for certain types of chewing. Teeth also help in formation of words in speech, but we rarely think that hard about that. The first two teeth in the front of the mouth are called incisors and their main work is to bite into things. To maintain your incisors for the longest time, it is a good habit to only bite into softer things such as cake and fruits directly.
The next two teeth to the left and to the right are called the canine teeth, or cuspids and they are mainly are transitional teeth as you move food to the next set for chewing. The premolars or the bicuspid have a double groove in the middle and thus their bicuspid name. These are the next pair of teeth and they too help to chew on your food. The final three teeth are called molars and for people above the age of twenty one, the third molar right at the end of the mouth grows.
It is often also called the wisdom tooth. All teeth including the cuspids and the bicuspids are important in keeping us healthy. It is important to maintain proper bushing habits throughout life to ensure that the teeth stay clean and healthy. Routinely, it is important to schedule an appointment with your dentist to ensure that you do not develop bacteria-carrying plaque around your gums.
Other important tooth maintenance habits include the temperature of the foods we eat. The teeth are made from enamel, a hard type of bone. When we take in extremely hot or cold foods or drinks we compromise the strength of our teeth. Foods that we eat should have reasonable temperatures and it is very ill advised to eat both extremely hot and cold foodstuffs at the same time; eat one or the other on its own.
Another important thing to avoid is to use the front teeth to bite into extremely hard things, to pull at things, or to do improper tasks such as opening bottle tops with the teeth. These kinds of actions put a lot of pressure on the teeth and the gums and many people have cracked a tooth that way. Such cracks are extremely painful and are completely avoidable.
