Can You Eat Without Molars?

You can eat with molars.  You can eat without teeth!  If you look at the molars from the goodyear blimp view, you will see a large space. like a table.  There teeth were meant for chewing.  If you look at the roots, the have two or three large root, to survive the forces while you eat.

Look at the pre-molars, the ones in front of the molar from the same view.  They are smaller but still have space to chew.  The roots are smaller, but may may two. They were also designed to chew.  However, since they are smaller it is harder to chew whit them alone and the possibilities of the roots weakening is larger.

The front teeth are not for chewing, as you look at them they have no space and the roots were not designed for those forces.  Hopefully, you already know the answer.  You can eat with out molars.  It will only get tougher and tougher as time goes by.  The teeth may start to move and you may start to loose more teeth.

I like to have one set of healthy molars per side as a minimum.

Hope this helps,

David Silber, DMD

Dallas, TX