Just like human babies, puppies are born without teeth and develop a set of “baby” or deciduous teeth. By the time they are about six to eight weeks old, puppies will have 28 baby teeth.

The project aims to create new methods of age estimation through an exploration of the histological structure of deciduous teeth. These teeth hold clues about our past growth and development that can ...

In fact, most mammals have two sets of teeth in their lifetime. They’re born toothless because their initial food source is their mother’s milk, and they develop baby—or deciduous—teeth as ...