A Commonplace Book

Category: teeth...

  • Incisors cut and slice, canines grip and tear, molars crush and chew.
  • Teeth decay more easily before 25; mature enamel is more resistant.
  • the teeth of vertebrates are modified descendants of bony dermal/skin plates of ancestral fishes
  • the permanent molars have no deciduous predecessors
  • keeping your own teeth till you die
  • chewing well to strengthen your teeth and gums
  • brushing your teeth mindfully, not on auto-pilot
  • other than the common cold, tooth decay is perhaps the most frequent disease of contemporary society
  • It's the dogs that bite that do not show their teeth. (Chinese proverb)
  • Eat coconuts while you have teeth. (Singhalese proverb)
  • I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth. (J. Swift)

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