molars

1. The teeth with broad surfaces at the back of the mouth that serve to grind food. Including the wisdom teeth, adults have twelve molars — six on the top and six on the bottom. (Compare incisors and canines.)

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Resident zoo vet, Charlotte Bentley said the teeth that they operated on were "highly specialised and sharp molars".

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Simply put, with this model, periodontal disease is artificially induced by ligating silk threads onto the molars of mice models, which induces plaque accumulation.

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In a similar incident in 2006, a member of their research team was allegedly instructed to extract teeth and molars from a collection of skulls abroad and bring them back to the Netherlands.

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Wisdom teeth, or a person's third and final set of back molars, are the last teeth to grow in one's mouth.

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They concluded they had a new species, Kenyanthropus platyops, with a flatter face and smaller molars than Lucy’s species—traits suggesting it was intermediate between Lucy and Homo.

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