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Using Mandibular Tooth Row Length to Age Yearling White-Tailed Deer

Using current methods of age determination, white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from the same cohort are classified as 1.5-year-old deer when actual age may vary by 6 or more months. We ...
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Comparative transcriptomic analysis of human maxillary and mandibular tooth germs reveals discrepancies in gene expression patterns

Representative images and heatmaps illustrate how human fetal tooth germs from the upper and lower jaws, although morphologically similar at the cap stage, already display distinct gene expression ...
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Re-evaluating the morphological evidence for the re-evolution of lost mandibular teeth in frogs

Evolution, Vol. 75, No. 12 (DECEMBER 2021), pp. 3203-3213 (11 pages) Dollo’s law of irreversibility states that once a complex structure is lost, it cannot be regained in the same form. Several ...
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Rubber dam clamp may lead to cortical tooth necrosis

A stainless-steel rubber dam clamp used during a root canal may have led to cortical necrosis in a healthy 22-year-old woman's mandibular tooth, according to a case report published on March 10 in the ...
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Region-specific gene expression patterns in human cap-stage maxillary and mandibular tooth germs (IMAGE)

Representative images and heatmaps illustrate how human fetal tooth germs from the upper and lower jaws, although morphologically similar at the cap stage, already display distinct gene expression ...