tooth
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For some children, applying SDF again every few months may control the cavity until the baby tooth falls out naturally.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
He also said the authenticity of the bite marks on the photo — which form a circular shape with an absence of bruising — could be challenged in court by an expert in tooth reconstruction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
But hey, if you have a voracious sweet tooth, you can always double down on the sweetness.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
And at O’Hare International Airport, American Airlines has been fighting tooth and nail not to lose access to gates in its terminal because of the Chicago hub’s potential to fuel its credit-card loyalty program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
A dentist hurried over to fix the tooth.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
In the hyperinflation of July 2021, sinking your teeth into one of these would have set you back 16.02 million bolivars.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Adaptation has no such teeth: the government writes its own risk assessment and its own plans.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Hook always wanted to bite Cosmo with his few remaining yellowed, tiny teeth that Delilah compared to candy corn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The likelihood of dental erosion in everyday life can also be affected by how often someone drinks a beverage, how long the teeth are exposed to it, and whether the drink contains sugar.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
“She stays out of the sight of customers,” Ba muttered through his teeth.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
The inspectors also reported crews spraying contaminated pool water onto neighboring properties and into storm drains, and excavator operators using toothed buckets that caused clean and contaminated soil to be commingled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
During opening weekend on March 16, the museum was a hive of freckles and gap toothed grins, with visitors ranging in age from newborn to well seasoned.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
Menopause is known to exist in five species of toothed whale: short-finned pilot whales, false killer whales, killer whales, narwhals and beluga whales.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
As the study authors explain, baleen whales and their toothed whale cousins could not survive with the larynxes from their land mammal ancestors.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024
His projects conduct electricity, engage motion with toothed wheels, react in concert with universal laws of physics.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
If the cause can be detected, as in toothing or worms, it should be removed.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Or when they are not corbeling they may be toothing.
From Love Conquers All by Williams, Gluyas
The strange feature in this case is the zig-zag "toothing" which is employed to represent the jaws.
From In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by Vincent, W.T. (William Thomas)
Unwittingly one will reason as if the slight variation were a toothing stone set up by the organism and reserved for a later construction.
From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur
It frequently happens, that during Dentition, or the Time of their toothing, Children prove subject to Knots or Kernels.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
