canine tooth

Also known as cuspids, fangs, dog tooth, eye tooth, canine, cuspid, fang

tooth located between the lateral incisor and the first premolar

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A canine tooth is one of the pointed teeth located between your side incisors and your first premolars—you have four of them (one on each side, top and bottom). These teeth are designed to grip and tear food, making them useful for biting and chewing.

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Research

13,029 papers

Age estimation in adults by canine teeth: a systematic review of the Cameriere method with meta-analysis on the reliability of the pulp/tooth area ratio.International journal of legal medicine · 2024de Araújo PSP, Pinto PHV, da Silva RHADOI: 10.1007/s00414-023-03110-1
Effective mechanical vibration frequency in canine tooth movement acceleration: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trial studies.Clinical oral investigations · 2025Lalitwageewong T, Leethanakul C, Witeerungrot TDOI: 10.1007/s00784-025-06338-w
Canine tooth syndrome due to orbital roof fracture.BMJ case reports · 2022Dubey S, Bansal O, Kekunnaya R et al.DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2021-248733
Surgical endodontics of the maxillary canine tooth.ReviewJournal of veterinary dentistry · 2004Luskin IR, Smith MM
Morphological quantification of the maxillary canine tooth in the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris).Annals of anatomy = Anatomischer Anzeiger : official organ of the Anatomische Gesellschaft · 2023Soukup JW, Jeffery J, Hetzel SJ et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2022.152041
Surgical endodontic therapy of the mandibular canine tooth.ReviewJournal of veterinary dentistry · 2006Niemiec BADOI: 10.1177/089875640602300112
Canine transposition.The Kaohsiung journal of medical sciences · 2005Tseng YC, Chang HP, Chou TMDOI: 10.1016/S1607-551X(09)70148-2
Concomitant occurrence of canine malposition and tooth agenesis: evidence of orofacial genetic fields.American journal of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics : official publication of the American Association of Orthodontists, its constituent societies, and the American Board of Orthodontics · 2002Peck S, Peck L, Kataja MDOI: 10.1067/mod.2002.129915

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In mammalian oral anatomy, the canine teeth, also called cuspids, dogteeth, eye teeth, vampire teeth, or fangs, are the relatively long, pointed teeth. In the context of the upper jaw, they are also known as fangs. They can appear more flattened, however, causing them to resemble incisors and leading them to be called incisiform. They developed and are used primarily for firmly holding food in order to tear it apart, and occasionally as weapons. They are often the largest teeth in a mammal's mouth. Individuals of most species that develop them normally have four, two in the upper jaw and two in the lower, separated within each jaw by incisors; humans and dogs are examples. In most species, canines are the anterior-most teeth in the maxillary bone. The four canines in humans are the two upper maxillary canines and the two lower mandibular canines. They are specially prominent in dogs (Canidae), hence the name.

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