Sometimes you just have to blog about a person having all 32 teeth — and all of them healthy. Most of us have at least lost our four wisdom teeth leaving us with 28 teeth. A very few people have more than 32 teeth but this is considered an anomaly.
In general, probably over decades of evolutionary time, our jaws have gotten smaller so that there is not enough room for the full compliment of 32 teeth.
This may seem like a silly question, but considering the cost of tooth replacement, this topic comes up frequently in real life. To provide the answer, lets start with the fact that adults are supposed to have 32 permanent teeth. However, the vast majority of people in the United States have their 4 wisdom teeth or 3 rd Molars extracted as teenagers, leaving the average American with a complement of 28 teeth.
Of these 28 teeth, each person has 14 in their upper jaw and 14 in their lower jaw. Within each jaw, you have 4 incisors, 2 canines, 4 premolars, and 4 molars. Your Doctor has the training, license and experience to provide various types of anesthesia for patients to select the best alternative.
These options as well as the surgical risks i. Once the teeth are removed, the gums may be sutured. To help control bleeding, bite down on the gauze placed in your mouth.
You will rest under our supervision in the office until you are ready to be taken home. Upon discharge, your post-operative kit will include postoperative instructions, a prescription for pain medication, antibiotics and a follow-up appointment in one week for suture removal.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call your Doctor. Our services are provided in an environment of optimum safety that utilizes modern monitoring equipment and staff that are experienced in anesthesia techniques. Close Search. Home Healthy living Dental health Your teeth Everything you need to know about teeth.
Everything you need to know about teeth. Milk teeth Milk teeth are the first teeth we get as babies. Read more about caring for your baby's first teeth and teething Adult teeth People can expect that between the ages of 12 and 14 a child will have lost all of their baby teeth and these will have now been replaced by a full set of adult teeth.
The different types of teeth Incisors are used for chopping and cutting food into small chunks, these are your front teeth and you have 4 on the bottom and 4 on the top.
Canine teeth help you to tear chewy food such as meat. You have 2 of these in the top jaw and 2 in the bottom jaw and they are positioned next to your incisors. Premolars are positioned next to your canine teeth. A full set of adult teeth will normally contain eight premolars with 4 on the top and 4 on the bottom row of teeth. We rely on these teeth for grinding and crushing chunks of food. These teeth are bigger and wider with a flat surface area on the bottom unlike your narrow and sharp front teeth.
Find more on looking after your teeth in our teeth cleaning guide The parts of our teeth The crown is the part of the tooth which is visible to you above the gum line.
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