Dental Insurance Plus, Getting to Know Your Teeth
Including wisdom teeth adults have 32 permanent teeth. Each tooth has two main parts known as the crown and the root. The crown is part of the tooth is is visible and the root is the part below your gums. There are other parts of our tooth that include, Tooth enamel – the outer coating that helps protect the crown of the tooth, Dentin – Which is the hard substance beneath the enamel that makes up the bulk of the tooth, Pulp – The soft tissue of the tooth which is in the middle and Cementum – the hard tissue that covers the root of the tooth and attaches it to the jawbone.
