Veterinary dentistry

thumb|335px|Cast of a human upper jaw showing incisors, canines, [[premolars, and two of the three possible pairs of molars.]]

thumb|The four canine tooth|canines, or fangs, of a domestic [[cat. (The largest two teeth of the top and bottom rows of teeth.)]]

thumb | right|Horse teeth Hypsodont is a pattern of dentition characterized by with high crowns, providing extra material for wear. Examples of animals with hypsodont dentition are cattle, horses, and deer. These animals will pick up gritty, fibrous material such as dirt into their mouth while grazing grass, and thus wear down their dentition more quickly than a select diet. The opposite condition is called brachydont.

thumb | right | alt=this image shows a suckermouth catfish ’s odontodes on its pectoral fins. displaying its teeth-like frills. | The frill-like odontodes on a Guyanancistrus longispinis|suckermouth catfish’s [[pectoral fins]] Odontodes, or dermal teeth, are hard structures found on the external surfaces of animals or near internal openings. They consist of a soft pulp cavity surrounded by dentine and covered by a mineralised substance such as enamel, a structure similar to that of teeth. They generally do not have the same function as teeth, and are not replaced the same way teeth are in mos

field of dentistry applied to the care of animals