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  2. All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth - Wikipedia

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    "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" is a novelty Christmas song written in 1944 by Donald Yetter Gardner [1] [2] [3] while teaching music at public schools in Smithtown, New York. He asked his second grade class what they wanted for Christmas , and noticed that almost all of the students had at least one front tooth missing as they ...

  3. Diastema - Wikipedia

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    Mesiodens: Mesiodens is an extra tooth that grows behind the front teeth. A mesiodens may push the front teeth apart to make room for itself thus creating a gap between the front teeth. [3] 4. Skeletal discrepancy: Dental skeletal discrepancy can be a cause behind gap teeth. If the upper jaw grows more than the lower jaw, teeth on the upper jaw ...

  4. Donald Yetter Gardner - Wikipedia

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    Gardner wrote "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" in 1944 while teaching music at public schools in Smithtown, New York. He asked the class what they wanted for Christmas and noticed that almost all of them had at least one front tooth missing and answered with a lisp. [2] Gardner wrote the song in 30 minutes.

  5. Incisor - Wikipedia

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    Incisors (from Latin incidere, "to cut") are the front teeth present in most mammals. They are located in the premaxilla above and on the mandible below. Humans have a total of eight (two on each side, top and bottom). Opossums have 18, whereas armadillos have none. [1]

  6. Human tooth - Wikipedia

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    Bottom teeth of a seven-year-old, showing primary teeth (left), a lost primary tooth (middle), and a permanent tooth (right) Tooth eruption in humans is a process in tooth development in which the teeth enter the mouth and become visible. Current research indicates that the periodontal ligaments play an important role in tooth eruption.

  7. Tusk - Wikipedia

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    An African elephant in Tanzania, with visible tusks. Tusks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species. They are most commonly canine teeth, as with narwhals, chevrotains, musk deer, water deer, muntjac, pigs, peccaries, hippopotamuses and walruses, or, in the case of elephants, elongated incisors.

  8. Maxillary central incisor - Wikipedia

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    For the permanent teeth, the left and right central incisor would have the same number, "1", but the right one would have the symbol, "┘", underneath it, while the left one would have, "└". [4] [page needed] The FDI World Dental Federation notation has a different system of numbering system from the previous two. [6]

  9. Palatal expansion - Wikipedia

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    Diastema – Space between upper front two teeth; Fenestration of buccal bone [13] Compression of periodontal ligament near posterior teeth; Extrusion of posterior teeth; Increased lingual bone thickness, decreased buccal bone thickness [13] One of the limits of expansion is the zygomatic buttress. It is known that this anatomical bony complex ...