Sentences with phrase «small canine teeth»

Another defining hominid feature is the presence of small canine teeth.

Heat helps free up energy by softening foods, denaturing their proteins and breaking down toxins, Wrangham proposed, which is why cooking may explain human brain size as well as small canine teeth and small guts in comparison to other primates.

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Raghanti says our smaller canines can be seen as «social teeth.»

The early Triassic (approx. 230 mya) herbivore Kannemeyeria was the size of an ox.4 Another, earlier herbivore, Moschops of the late Permian (approx. 260 mya), was even bigger — 16 feet long.5 Contemporary with Moschops were smaller, doglike, carnivorous synapsids (Lycaenops) with long canine teeth and running legs.

Some canines develop so little tartar over their lifetime, they never require any dental work at all, while others — especially Poodles and small Terrier breeds — have terrible dental problems that do not resolve until all the teeth are removed, sometimes as young as eight years of age.

Keep your finger over the small incisor teeth — NOT over the sharp fangs or canine teeth.

Apply a small quantity of toothpaste to your finger and softly rub it on one of the large canine teeth.

The canine teeth (fangs) of cats commonly have very small fractures of the tips of these teeth, which are easily overlooked.

For smaller dogs, we recommend spaying after their adult canine teeth are in.

We like to wait the little extra time on small - breed dogs because they have a tendency to retain their «baby» (deciduous) teeth - thus resulting in double rows of teeth - and the «fangs» (canine teeth, «eye teeth») don't normally drop out until 5 months of age.

Because the tips of their canine, or «fang», teeth are so small and pointed, bites are often not noticed until infection sets in several days after the injury.

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Because the tips of their canine, or «fang,» teeth are so small and pointed, bites are often not noticed until infection sets in, which is usually several days after the initial injury.

Besides the obvious answer; when their permanent teeth are getting ready to pop up through the gums, it is basically safe to assume that a larger dog will start popping out his razor sharp canines right around three months while the smaller whippersnappers might hang on until the end of the sixth month.

Two rows of six small, curved incisors help the dog maintain a firm grip on prey, while four large, pointed canine teeth tear at it.

On opposite ends of the 8.5 - inch handle are two brush heads, one small and one large to help you clean your canine friend's teeth.

In the wild, these teeth would perform a variety of tasks such as grooming (the 6 small incisors at the front of each jaw), grasping and killing prey (the 4 long canines, also called «fangs»), and crushing and shearing the meat off the prey's bones to eat (the pointed molars and premolars along the sides of the jaws, also called «cheek teeth»).

When a cat bites, its sharp canine teeth easily puncture the skin, leaving small, but deep, wounds in the skin.

Gato es \ «spayed \» muchacha... pero; someone had BOTH her Upper & lower Canines (with all small teeth i between also extracted).