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Figure 1. Crown of the tooth. The teeth are made up of two major parts: the crown and the root. The crown of the tooth is what is visible in the mouth (Figure 1). The root of the tooth is the portion which normally not visible in the mouth and is anchored within the bone (Figure 2).
The surface enamel is the hardest layer, and under that is the second hardest layer, dentin. Dentin is important because it surrounds and connects to the pulp of the tooth, which is made up of living connective tissue and cells called odontoblasts, and found in the middle of your tooth. The pulp is where your blood vessels, nerves, and connective tissue are found, so you really donât want to mess that up. Problems start when you get a cavity that eats away your enamel, dentin and cementum - a calcified substance covering the root of a tooth - and exposes the pulp.