Alie Ward

Okay, what's the difference between a tusk and a tooth?

One is ivory.

What's ivory versus?

Ivory is just dentine.

Underneath that is the yellowish dentine, which is softer than the outside enamel, but still hard tissue.

And it's protecting that little lump of inner pulp in the tooth.

And dentine is made up of collagen proteins.

And according to a chapter in the journal Engineered Regeneration, banger of a book, there are fine tubes arranged in dentine known as dentine tubules.

And when dentine is exposed, it can transfer cold, hot, sour, and sweet

stimulation from outside to the pulp nerve and cause pain.

And darlings, we owe you an odontology teeth episode.

We also owe you an elephant episode.

We're working on it.

Our pachydermatologist of choice has been in the field for like two years.

We're waiting for her to become available.

Please don't yell at me, sweet little brats.

And this is one thing in a recent paper of yours about sensitive teeth, like blame your fish ancestors.

Yep.

Which I got a crown replaced and I can't drink cold water on that side.

It's been like two months and I'm just angry about it.