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.

All children examined had 20 deciduous teeth in the mouth. The outcomes were: Overjet: Obtained by measuring the horizontal ratio between the upper and lower incisors with the teeth in occlusion.

Taung has quite large molar teeth, with a generally human-like shape, and deciduous incisors and deciduous canine teeth that are small without space between the canines. These differ from jaws and ...