why?
2007-02-18 04:25:15 · 11 answers · asked by Oyenz 2 in Health ➔ Dental
No. They are made of different stuff. If they were bone, they would graft themselves to the bone in your jaws.
2007-02-18 04:29:17 · answer #1 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Teeth are NOT bone
Teeth are made of 4 materials, e.g. enamel, dentine, pulp and cementum.
The only resemblance to bone is that teeth did come from the same area of the embryo that bone came from.
Reader "A... of SIN" in stating "You could argue for days without an answer" is really an awful admission to IGNORANCE if I may say so.
One need not argue at ALL about the composition of BONE or TEETH or anything else. A person simply has to look for the answer which usually take about ONE MINUTE.
Yahoo's "Answer" program is as excellent and informative as any on the Internet. I only wish there was a prerequisite that members use their search engines (there are 10 good ones, including Yahoo.com) before making answers that indicate that they made NO search at all.
2007-02-18 15:33:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A tooth is not at all a bone and it is not even really like bone. Teeth are made by cells called ameloblasts and odontoblasts and bone is made by cells called osteoblasts.
If you put the following words in any search engine, you will get thousands of references telling about how teeth and bones are formed and you will see that they are different:
ameloblast, odontoblast, osteoblast, osteoclast, (osteogenesis -imperfecta)
2007-02-18 17:20:24 · answer #3 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Teeth grow from bone, however they are not bones. It's more like a concentrated protein.
2007-02-18 12:29:42 · answer #4 · answered by jamesemt911 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No it is not bone. Teeth are the hardest / strongest thing in the body. It is stronger than bone.
2007-02-18 13:51:46 · answer #5 · answered by Educated 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there not bones. But the root goes into a bone.
2007-02-18 12:27:43 · answer #6 · answered by GrapeMSH 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, cause they are bones. Look at medical books.
Cheers
2007-02-18 12:27:25 · answer #7 · answered by Daft One 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
no bone
2007-02-18 12:28:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Na not really... I don't really know what I would consider it.
2007-02-18 18:24:09 · answer #9 · answered by Bridget 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES and NO haha you could debate it for days and still get no real answers.
2007-02-18 12:33:03 · answer #10 · answered by A Flower for a SIn 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋