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Tooth loss is normal for deciduous teeth (baby teeth), when they are replaced by a person's adult teeth. Otherwise, losing teeth is undesirable and is the result of injury or disease, such as dental avulsion, tooth decay, and gum disease. The condition of being toothless or missing one or more teeth is called edentulism. Tooth loss has been ...
Professional regurgitation is the act of controlled regurgitation. The act consists of swallowing and regurgitating various unusual objects. The objects may consist of anything from live animals (live aquatic: Mac Norton ; and live mice: The Great Waldo ), [ 1 ] to light bulbs, billiard balls ( Stevie Starr ) and kerosene ( Hadji Ali ). [ 2 ]
In infants, regurgitation – or spitting up – is quite common, with 67% of 4-month-old infants spitting up more than once per day. [5] Some people are able to regurgitate without using any external stimulation or drug, by means of muscle control. Practitioners of yoga have also been known to do this. [6]
The teeth most likely affected are the maxillary anterior teeth, but all teeth can be affected. [95] The name for this type of caries comes from the fact that the decay usually is a result of allowing children to fall asleep with sweetened liquids in their bottles or feeding children sweetened liquids multiple times during the day.
A 1930s poster from the Work Projects Administration promoting oral hygiene. Tooth decay is the most common global disease. [14] Over 80% of cavities occur inside fissures in teeth where brushing cannot reach food left trapped after eating and saliva and fluoride have no access to neutralize acid and remineralize demineralized teeth, unlike easy-to-clean parts of the tooth, where fewer ...
Sands then went through the process of explaining to Spelling how veneers work and how he plans to “take a thin layer off the top” of her teeth and wants to “lengthen” her teeth a little bit.
Regurgitation or regurgitate may refer to: Regurgitation (circulation) Regurgitation (digestion) Regurgitate (band), a Swedish goregrind band; See also.
Resorption of the root of the tooth, or root resorption, is the progressive loss of dentin and cementum by the action of odontoclasts. [4] Root resorption is a normal physiological process that occurs in the exfoliation of the primary dentition.