Question

 Sonia:Molar? What is it?
Dr Sharma: It’s a kind of teeth. Look at the chart. There are two types of teeth – deciduous teeth, also known as milk teeth, and permanent teeth. Deciduous teeth are usually 20 in number and they shed one by one after growth. Thereafter, new permanent teeth come up. They are usually 32 in number.

1. Name the two types of teeth.

2. What is molar ?

3. What do you know about deciduous teeth?

4. How many permanent teeth do we usually have?

Answer 1

1. The two types of teeth are : deciduous or milk teeth and permanent teeth.

2. Molar is a kind of teeth.

3. Deciduous teeth are usually 20 in number and they shed one by one after growth.

4. We usually have 32 permanent teeth.