What's inside teeth?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Our teeth are incredible chomping machines. Their strong outer layer helps us crunch carrots, nibble potato chips and chew bubblegum! But what’s inside of them? We asked dentist Dr. Jean Star to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on this is moment of umm. |
| 0:05.0 | Moment of umm. |
| 0:07.0 | Moment of um comes to you from from A.P. M. Studios. I'm Braxton, Bramble Bush, the third. |
| 0:18.0 | Um. Why, hello there. there. |
| 0:23.0 | Braxton Bramble Bush, the third, professional cover-judger. |
| 0:28.0 | I judge books based on their covers. |
| 0:31.0 | A very lucrative and useful career. Take this book for example, |
| 0:36.7 | Lord of the Flies. The cover has a bunch of trees on it. Clearly it's about a bunch of bugs in the forest. |
| 0:44.8 | Yawn Pass. Or what about this one? |
| 0:49.6 | Dune? This is obviously just a really long book about a big pile of sand. Pass! |
| 0:58.8 | Hold on a minute. Now this looks like a high quality book. User manual diamond clean electric toothbrush model AZ 8912. Whoa, simple black and white cover, tiny text, no fluff, I am sold. |
| 1:20.1 | When you're a professional cover judge are like me, you have to be decisive. |
| 1:25.0 | You see the outside of something and you can immediately tell what's inside. |
| 1:29.0 | Judge Bananas based on the spotiness of their peals, trees according to how rough their bark is, and of course |
| 1:37.3 | pies, based on the flakiness of their crusts. But there's one thing that has befuddled me, Braxton Bramble Bush, the third, professional cover |
| 1:48.3 | Judger, and that is teeth. Teeth, ugh, what secrets do they hide? |
| 1:55.0 | What's inside of them? |
| 1:57.0 | Ever and I both want to know. |
| 2:00.0 | Teeth are very interesting. They're a very unique part of our body. |
| 2:06.0 | My name is Jean Starr. I am a pediatric dentist here at UCSF in San Francisco. |
| 2:14.0 | Being a pediatric dentist means that I am a dentist |
| 2:18.0 | that takes care of kids and kids teeth only, |
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