dentition

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Pondering extraterrestrial dentition is just one of the byproducts of working on the series for more than five years.

From Salon • Jul. 21, 2025

More baby boomers reached 60 with “a relatively intact dentition at that age than any generation in history,” the CDC says.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

In this study, Bertilsson and colleagues performed clinical and radiographical examination of the dentition of individuals from this site.

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023

Tusks are among the most dramatic examples of mammal dentition: ever-growing, projecting teeth used for fighting, foraging, even flirting.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2021

A stage in which the food is softened by cooking and the dentition is more or less reduced in size and retrograde in character, as in modernized types of H. sapiens.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court