Could you transplant a tooth that isn't yours?!


Question: Could you transplant a tooth that isn't yours?
Just wondering if you could transplant another person's tooth (human) into your mouth.
For example if you haven't yet had the tooth extracted, thanks for any answers.

Answers:

You absolutely cannot get another persons tooth in your mouth. The ligaments that hold your teeth in place cannot reattach to a foreign tooth (or a tooth that is decayed). Also, the foreign tooth would decay and food and bacteria would get under the tooth and roots causing infection, periodontal disease, and bone resorbtion (the jaw bone would basically run the other way from the foreign tooth). Completely impossible and your dentist would not allow that anyways.

BTW, dental implants are thousands of dollars and they DO NOT use a foregin tooth. They put a screw in your jaw and a fake tooth made by the lab (from impressions of your former tooth) is screwed and glued to that screw.

I am a dental asissting student.



Well a full grown tooth yes, but then there's a nerve inside the tooth and there are gums that hold the tooth.

So I guess if you wanted too it could be anchored to your jawbone.

But why have someone's else's weak tooth that can decay when you can have a stronger fake tooth?

They are called dental implants, I checked it out once when I got a root canal.



You have a vivid imagination hon. Why would you want someone's nasty, germy tooth inside yer head? Dentists make really good porcelain teeth that can be implanted and fitted exactly to a person's mouth so no need to yank out some poor dead person's tooth!




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