It's All About Teeth

An interesting topic I have covered today in Forensic Medicine today.It's under the topic of estimation of age with subtopic of dentition.It's like I've studied to become a dentist that moment (no,I'm not planning to become a dentist).Anyway,I feel the topic is really interesting.With the mnemonics given to remember the order of eruption of the permanent tooth:

First molar(Mother)
Central incisor(Is)
Lateral incisor(In)
First premolar or bicuspid(Bed)
Second premolar or bicuspid(Baby)
Canine(Cries)
Second molar(Milk)
Third molar(Milk)

A very enjoyable class!!!

The lecturer also mentioned about the 'wisdom' tooth or the third molar tooth which is the final tooth arise.He hoped that he would have plenty of time to check each one of us whether our very last tooth has appeared or not.Do I have the 'wisdom' tooth already?Hmm..let me check first. Ok,it seems most of the quadrant except the left upper quadrant has the third molar already (not wise enough).Well,it seems my dentition has not complete yet.Need to wait another three years to become fully 'WISE'!

Charting of dentition
-The standard guideline given by Federation Dentaire Internationale(FDI)
-Accepted across the globe
-Easier to represent the tooth in dentition

Let's do some analysis:

Charting of dentition vs numbers which related to myself(which end with number2):

22(my age in 2008) - permanent lateral incisor at left upper quadrant
32(tevez's number:my favourite Man Utd player) - permanent lateral incisor at left lower quadrant
52(tevez's birth date,so NOT related to me!) - permanent lateral incisor at right upper quadrant
62(my roll number) - temporary lateral incisor at left upper quadrant
72(my birth date) - temporary lateral incisor at left lower quadrant

(could not find for 42 and 82)

So much you can tell about teeth ^_^