We often see children with tiger heads, tiger heads, and little tiger teeth. It’s so beautiful! In fact, this tiger tooth is called a canine tooth in our medicine, or it is called a single canine tooth.
If the tiger’s teeth are not too slanted or crowded, everyone will think that this little boy is very cute with little tiger’s teeth, like a little tiger. But if the tiger tooth is very inclined, or the left and right teeth are very crowded with it, we will feel that the tooth is a bit ugly. This situation wants to unplug it for the sake of beauty.
This idea is wrong and totally wrong. In the eyes of ordinary people, teeth are divided into front teeth and back teeth, but in our stomatology, there are four categories. Let’s now take the upper left tooth as an example. Starting from the midline, the first and second teeth are called incisors, which cut food like knives. The third tooth, we call it fangs, and the common people call it tiger teeth and canine teeth, which are used for tearing food. Then there are the fourth and fifth teeth, called bicuspids or premolars, which chew food and assist the canines to tear food. The last few are the molars, which are used to grind food.
The tiger teeth are located at the corner of the mouth. The roots of the teeth are long and thick, which can withstand huge bite force and support the corner of the mouth. If our upper jaw teeth are missing, the upper corner of the mouth will collapse, the expression will be rigid, and it will look old and affect the appearance of the face.
The tooth root of Huya is the longest tooth among all the teeth in our mouth, and it is very stable in the alveolar bone. It is usually the tooth with the longest retention time in our mouth, and most of it is the last tooth. Lost tooth. Its existence allows us to be a good abutment to help us when we do denture restorations.
In addition, the surface of this tiger tooth is very smooth and self-cleaning, so it rarely suffers from tooth decay. The importance of tiger teeth, I have said so much. Maybe everyone will ask, is the tiger tooth good or not, but this tiger tooth is too ugly to show it outwards. How can we make it look better and make the most of it?
If the gap is sufficient, it can be corrected directly. If the gap is not enough, pull out the tooth behind the tiger tooth to leave a space for the tiger tooth to enter the normal dental arch arrangement. Of course, this requires the help of a professional orthodontist. This point is very important.
Nanjing University Stomatological Hospital Senior Expert Clinic
Member of Expert Group of China Dental Foundation
Ge Jiuyu