"One, two, three, four OK, four, three, OK"?!
Question: When you go to a dentist for a check-up, they always say this.
What are they counting and why is it OK?
Answers: When you go to a dentist for a check-up, they always say this.
What are they counting and why is it OK?
hehe your lucky if you hear that.
there are 4 quadrants, and each quadrant has 8. 1 going from the front tooth and 8 all the way to the wisdom tooth.
for example: if they say 1,4 ok, thats good! but if they say 1,4 needs M.O, thats bad. get it?
They are counting your teeth, but I'm not sure.
Each tooth has a number.
It's good to hear OK when at the dentist.
The dentist is counting the number of healthy teeth in your mouth.
If he only gets to four that is not a good sign.
they are checking your teeth which are counted forward and back ward ok means that they are alright
It's very possible they are checking the attachment of your gums to the base of your teeth. Anything 4 mm or less is usually OK. There are 6 surfaces to every tooth that they check the gum level, and it's easiest to call out the numbers to an assistant, and she writes them down on a special chart. It's done at every checkup, so that if there are changes, the dentist can see where, how big, and between what checkups the change occurred. There are lots different scoring systems for checking this attachment, so don't freak out if another dentist does it differently.