Sentences with phrase «jaw around the teeth»

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In fact the number of teeth required and jaw movements necessary to process various textures do not really develop until sometime around and after 24 months to 30 months of age.

Hospitals around the world use the bloodsucking annelids — which have three jaws, each bearing 100 tiny teeth — for tasks such as stimulating circulation after the surgical reattachment of a severed finger or ear.

A Graecopithecus lower jaw, found in Athens with most teeth still in their sockets, dates to around 7.175 million years ago, a group led by Tübingen geoscientist Madelaine Böhme reports May 22 in a separate paper in PLOS ONE.

At the full gape needed to get its teeth around prey, he notes, the cat's jaw muscles wouldn't have good leverage and bite forces would be relatively weak.

The lower jaw of this toothy fish houses around 30 teeth arranged in groups consisting of a single tooth followed by several smaller teeth.

Researchers previously found a partial jaw and tooth belonging to yet a third hominid that lived around Lucy's time.

It is a feeling of pain in your teeth or around your jaws.

In fact the number of teeth required and jaw movements necessary to process various textures do not really develop until sometime around and after 24 months to 30 months of age.

The gum shield not only protects your teeth and gums during physical contact, it can reduce damage around the jaw and incidences of concussion.

Indications that your pet might be in need of dental care would include the presence of a red stripe along the gum line, unpleasant odor from the mouth, reluctance to chew, change in chewing behaviors, inability to see the teeth due to calculus accumulation, reluctance to allow home care, broken teeth, discolored teeth, loose teeth, draining or swelling around the face or jaw, decreased appetite, swellings or enlargements of the oral tissues, difficulty in swallowing, rubbing the face with a paw (sometimes resulting in eye irritation), rubbing the face on the carpet, and other signs as well.

Keep lots of toys around — some chew toys to exercise its teeth and jaw, toys the cat can push and paw at, and toys that make the cat work to get to a treat hidden inside.

features bones can become lodged around the lower jaw and canine teeth.

A common emergency I have seen in clinics is a soup bone stuck around the bottom jaw of a dog, stuck behind the lower canine teeth.

When the infection collects around the root of the tooth it can create an abscess, which is the swelling of the jaw that can be visible to the naked eye.

It allows them to explore the world around them, exercise their jaws, and even clean their teeth.

X-rays are also used to determine the health of the teeth and jaw around the growth.

It also appears that this excessive padding can contribute to the development of dental disease due to the accumulation of food and saliva around the teeth of the lower jaw.

Once teeth have disease around the gums and significant pockets of infection around gum line, the damage to the ligaments holding the tooth in the jaw is usually irreversible, which is why sometimes teeth need to be removed.

Arm & Hammer Advanced Care Tartar Control Toothpaste is made up enzymes that help in inhibiting the formation of tartar and plaque around the teeth and jaws.

Pets with poor dental hygiene are also at greater risk for: jaw fractures, bone infection, tissue / bone loss around the teeth, and nasal fistulas (a hole leading from the oral cavity to the nasal cavity).