Front teeth or Anterior teeth (Scientific name) position & Angulations, is key to your dental and whole body health. Front teeth are angular and are mostly tilted slightly forwards at 5-15 degrees to vertical. Remember- people with bucked upper teeth. This angulation’ is so designed by nature for some special reasons. Their angulations’ has a purpose of disposing off/containing/ dissipating/ all the angular forces of your bite.
The dental bite during mastication of food is extremely powerful and has immense energy, sometimes up to 1000 megapascals, almost one forth of a small firecracker enough to crush bones of a child’s fingers. You have witnessed some people can bite forcefully on ropes tied to the heavy truck and pull it. In short dental bite is a very powerful bite. The forces generated are destructive. It’s like upper and lower teeth collide with a momentum of 75gm cm/sec.…
