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Baby tooth
* Baby teeth are susceptible to decay as soon as they appear in the infant's mouth.
* Baby teeth can greatly affect the look and health of permanent teeth
  - push permanent teeth out of line
  - quickly decay due to baby bottle syndrome
  - fall out to make room for the permanent teeth
* Baby teeth help a child eat and speak properly
  - keep space open in the mouth so adult teeth aren t crowded
* Some baby teeth are part of children
  - kids
  - nippers
  - orphans
  - toddlers
  - tots
* are tooths.

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Canine
* All canines belong to one species and share a common genome
  - live with their handlers and stay at the handlers' homes when off duty
* Most canines thrive when given basic obedience training.
* are absent in the permanent dentition but present in the deciduous dentition
  - absent, and a large diastema is present
  - animals
  - carnivores
  - difficult to extract because of their long wide roots
  - enlarged in carnivores and are used to catch prey
  - large and long
  - large, as are molars
  - mammals
  - naturally extremely social animals who thrive on company
  - placental mammals
  - powerful, well set and well apart
  - quadrupeds
  - steady and enduring workers who enjoy detail and schedules
  - terrestrial organisms
  - the type of teeth, which help to hold and tear the food
  - used for cutting and tearing of food
  - well-developed
* are, for the most part, single functional teeth encompassing a broad, cone-like morphology
  - on the average, far more physiologically viable circulatory specimens than man
* can model behavior.
* cone transducin-gamma gene and cone degeneration in the cd dog.
* coughing treatment offers hope for cats.
* darker mesially and more translucent laterally.
* differ in size between males and females.
* distemper in free-ranging carnivores from Germany
  - is of no public health significance to humans
  - virus more commonly causes disease in dogs and other species of land carnivore
* erupt within the first month.
* even forecast earthquakes.
* gradually grind it away, rather than breaking off chunks.
* have a definite instinct to hide out in dens
  - record of heroism approaching that of humans
  - one cusp
  - the ability to detect and discriminate scents at low levels
  - twenty-six blood types
  - very long roots
* help chevrotains to dig out and crush an egg.
* often fail to see the positive side of life
  - fear, and exhibit stress responses to, loud noises
* osteosarcoma is the most common skeletal neoplasm of pet dogs.
* parainfluenza virus-induced encephalitis in ferrets.
* perceive the sideways stance as less threatening in general.
* produce no harmful methane or effluent.
* rabies is prevalent in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
* understand the concept of freedom, food, social contact and reproduction.
* use body language as a primary means of communication besides smell.

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Canine tooth
* Canine teeth are a good example of one form serving different functions
  - as a rule present only in the male sex in both jaws, and are small and conical
  - canine in name only
  - for killing
  - large but unspecialized
  - necessary to maintain tongue position, which is particularly important in dogs
  - sharp and pointed
  - typically absent or greatly reduced throughout the Proboscides
  - very large and cheek teeth are more jagged
  - grasp prey and tear tough hides
  - protrude from mouth in the terminal phase of both female and male sheepshead
* Some canine teeth contain poison.

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Upper canine
* are long and well-developed, and the molars have three or four cusps.
* grow through the upper lip and curve toward the eyes.

Wild canine
* form packs specifically for the purpose of hunting large prey.
* live in packs and hunt as groups.