ANIMAL DENTISTRY. 



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The canines are the prominent features of the dog's den- 

 ture. They are large, white members having deep implan- 

 tations and elongated conical crowns curved backwards, 

 which pass each other in a manner to grasp and hold firmly 



Fig. 30. 

 Inferior Denture of a Dog. (Cornevin at Lesbre.) 



any object caught between them. The molar denture is 

 very irregular, as is also each individual tooth. The first 

 inferior molar of dogs is properly classified as a temporary 

 tooth that persists in the mature animal, although it is fre- 

 quently referred to as a permanent tooth having no tem- 



