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What is a canine teeth, almost circular in cross-section?

Good evening,

I'm reading an article for school about the Tasmanian Devil, I'm trying to figuare out what's so special about canine teeth, almost circular in cross-section. What does it mean and why would this form prevent the Devil from shattering his teeth when they'd impact bone. Google wasn't the answer :S It just made it more complicated.

Thanks in advance.

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  • 8 years ago
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    The canine teeth are the teeth right next to your four front teeth (incisors). You have one on each side in the upper jaw and one on each side in the lower jaw. In carnivorous animals like dogs and cats they are much larger than in humans, acting as fangs with which they can get a firm grasp on their prey. It is the round cross section that enables them to easily pierce the skin of a prey animal, like a nail piercing wood. The front teeth (incisors) are flat in cross section, while the rear teeth (molars) are square in cross section.

    Source(s): biologist
  • 4 years ago

    hi, sure your incisors could nicely be manipulated extremely actual, irregardless of your age. To have pronounced incisors leads me to have faith overcrowding is possibly your subject.actual corrected. playstation Orthodontic artwork is painless, probably a molar or premolar could must be extracted on ideal enamel to make area to deliver enamel back,i'm confident you pays to have those completed under anasthetic very rapidly yet with cutting-part dentistry and anastesia there is not any want as those does no longer be painful. once you're unhappy get the braces

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