Figure symptoms from tooth decay

Tooth decay
chemical parasitic process

1. Tooth enamel -
   Enamelum
2. Dentin (= dentine) -
   Dentinum
3. Tooth pulp in the tooth cavity -
   Pulp dentis in Cavitas dentis
4. Gums -
   Gingiva
5. Cement -
   Cementum
6. Alveolar bone
   (tooth-bearing part
   the jawbone) -
   Pars alveolaris
   (Alveolar process)
7. Nerve fibers and blood vessels
   Stage of the disease:
   Descaling process (A + B + C)
   Minerals dissolve from the
   Tooth enamel -
   (no toothache)
   Progressive tooth decay (D)
   Caries reaches the dentin -
   (occasional throbbing pain)
   Very deep caries defects (E + F)
   that reach the pulp -
   (severe, stabbing toothache)
   the increasing destruction
   of nerve fibers can become a
   Cause blood poisoning

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