OUR TEETH
The importance to our health of having good teeth is still not sufficiently appreciated. It is the same with health in general. We begin to value it only when we have lost it and are sick. Many people think it is enough to know that there are doctors available if they need them, and they do not worry any further. They similarly rely on the dentist if something goes wrong with their teeth, and for this reason they do not give any thought to the importance of keeping their teeth healthy. In a figurative sense, we could call the teeth the front line defences of our body.
Healthy Teeth and their Defence Action
Metaphorical speech being the oldest and most effective way of explaining something, I would like to compare the teeth to armour-plated turrets. The hard outer tooth enamel could be called the armour-plating because the enamel is the toughest tissue of the body, built up of very hard calcium fluoride. The enamel possesses a thick enough layer of calcium fluoride – in our illustration a strong armour-plating – to be able to do justice to all the demands made on it for the usual 60—80 or even more years of our life, provided we have inherited the proper basis for this from our parents, especially if our mother’s mineral metabolism was efficient and her body had all the necessary minerals when she was carrying us.
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