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Know About Your Tooth Enamel

Tooth enamel is the most highly mineralized and hardest substance of the body and with cementum, dental pulp and dentin is one of the four major tissues which make up the tooth. This tooth enamel is normally visible tissue and must be well supported by underlying dentin. Research says that around ninety six percent of tooth enamel consist of minerals with water and other organic material composing that completes the hundred percent. Normal color of enamel varies itself from grayish white to light yellow. If one sees the teeth edge where there is no dentin that underlying enamel, the color sometimes appears to be slightly blue tone. The dentin color and any restorative dental material below the tooth enamel strongly affects the tooth appearance since the enamel is semi translucent. Thickness of enamel also varies over the surface of the tooth and is often seems to be thickest at the cusp up to 2.4 to 2.5mm, and appears thinnest at its borders seen clinically as cementoenamel jun...

Find a Dentist in your Place

It is always good to be acquainted with your family dentist before any dental emergency arises. Finding best dental surgeon is not a difficult task at all and you can easily identify them by asking questions among your friends and the area health professionals. If you still want to find a good one you can get some recommendations from local dental committee or else from a dental school nearby. Consumer Research, that offers a set of various questions to judge a good dentist’s skill set after receiving dental treatment. • How you feel when you bite something? Is that irritating your gum or normal.. • Are you still feeling that irritation on your gum even after the dental work? • How does your treated tooth look like? Is that look like your normal tooth or not matching properly. • Even after treatment does floss catch on your tooth or tongue? • How much time the dentist is taking to polish your fillings? • When drinking hot or cold water do you feel any irritating pain on your gum? • An...