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If someone smiled in such a way that you could only see their upper teeth and the pink flesh above them, would that be their top gums or their top gum?
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According to my dictionary app, the singular of 'gums' is in fact 'gum'. It just sounds incredibly weird because of how much more often it's pluralized in this context.
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Gingiva and plural gingivae!? The upper gum or gums is the maxilla gingiva. Works if the persona who expresses this is a dentist or doctor or dental practitioner or dentophile.
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