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  2. Cattle age determination - Wikipedia

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    Cattle have thirty-two teeth, including six incisors or biting teeth and two canines in the front on the bottom jaw. The canine teeth are not pointed but look like incisors. The incisor teeth meet with the thick hard dental pad of the upper jaw. Cattle have six premolars and six molars on both top and bottom jaws for a total of twenty-four molars.

  3. Dentition - Wikipedia

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    In many mammals, the infants have a set of teeth that fall out and are replaced by adult teeth. These are called deciduous teeth, primary teeth, baby teeth or milk teeth. [7] [8] Animals that have two sets of teeth, one followed by the other, are said to be diphyodont. Normally the dental formula for milk teeth is the same as for adult teeth ...

  4. Veterinary dentistry - Wikipedia

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    Dog undergoing dental treatment Dog with periodontal disease A canine with gingivitis English bulldog with underbite. Veterinary dentistry involves the application of dental care to animals, encompassing not only the prevention of diseases and maladies of the mouth, but also considers treatment.

  5. Toothcomb - Wikipedia

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    The toothcomb of most lemuriforms includes six finely spaced teeth, four incisors and two canine teeth that are procumbent (tilt forward) in the front of the mouth. [4] [15] The procumbent lower canine teeth are the same shape as the incisors located between them, [15] but they are more robust and curve upward and inward, more so than the incisors. [13]

  6. Canine tooth - Wikipedia

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    Male dogs have larger canines with different contour than do females. [7] Humans have the proportionately smallest male canine teeth among all anthropoids and exhibit relatively little sexual dimorphism in canine tooth size. It has been proposed that the receding canine teeth in human males was likely to be a result of sexual selection for less ...

  7. Animal tooth development - Wikipedia

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    The variations usually lie in the morphology, number, development timeline, and types of teeth. [8] However, some mammals' teeth do develop differently than humans'. In mice, WNT signals are required for the initiation of tooth development. [9] [10] Rodents' teeth continually grow, forcing them to wear down their teeth by gnawing on various ...

  8. Hypsodont - Wikipedia

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    Hypsodont is a pattern of dentition characterized by teeth with high crowns, providing extra material for wear and tear. Some examples of animals with hypsodont dentition are cows and horses; all animals that feed on gritty, fibrous material. The opposite condition is called brachydont.

  9. Listeriosis in animals - Wikipedia

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    The animal wants to eat, but food remains within the mouth, with drooling saliva, because of paralysis of the masticatory muscles. Following nervous location of the lesions, the signs may be different from one sick animal to another. In adult cattle, the course of the disease is one to two weeks, but in calves, it is more acute. [7]