The invention discloses a tooth modeling method based on dental crown and tooth root characteristics. The tooth modeling method includes the following steps that 1, tooth basis information is determined; 2, the average curvature and the gaussian curvature at a top point of a triangular mesh are determined; 3, the computational processes of the average curvatures and the gaussian curvatures at all the top points of continuous triangular meshes of multiple segmentations of a dental crown are completed; 4, the type of the dental crown is extracted; 5, whether the tooth type is single or not is judged; 6, a tooth model of the single-root tooth is established; 7, the tooth model of the multi-root tooth is established. According to the tooth modeling method, a dental crown model of a single tooth is obtained through a laser three-dimensional scanner, the dental crown and tooth roots are separated, the type of the tooth is determined according to the characteristics of the dental crown, the corresponding tooth root model is established, and the tooth modeling method is high in accuracy, small in calculation quantity, visible, rapid, effective and low in cost.