Dr. Yara Haridi

Is a tooth a tissue?

So what makes up a tooth are the different tissues we'll be talking about.

So like dentine, enamel, those are like words that people have heard from, you know, your toothpaste commercials.

Yeah.

So those will be the tissues, but the structure as a whole is the tooth.

Oh girl, this is like, I feel like it's such an odd story because so many people, especially in paleo, they were dino kids and they knew, they just knew.

You know, my husband's that way where he's like, I just knew that this is at least a direction I wanted to go.

Not paleo particularly, but like art, for example.

Paleo tends to be like that.

where a lot of people have been into it since forever.

But I took a couple of wrong turns to even get here.

So I grew up in the Middle East.

And in the Middle East, you don't really have a dinosaur phase as a kid.

It wasn't marketed that way.

I'm 1994, so good year.

But Jurassic Park was just becoming big.

And so it just wasn't as big in the Middle East.

And it wasn't a thing.

And I didn't really understand that that could be a career.

And so then we immigrated to Canada and I started going to university and really being interested in science.