The idea is to completely extract the dying tooth and implant a fresh tooth in its place.
Assipattle, the youngest son of a local farmer, defeated the creature; as it died its teeth fell out to become the islands of Orkney, Shetland and the Faroes, and its body became Iceland.
Stanley's hunch: That horses with shorter teeth died young because their teeth were worn down by the even more abrasive C4 grasses.
He found teeth so concave with cavities that he concluded many people likely died from tooth disease.
Leshka, the village shepherd, had been the only one who could extract teeth, and after he died their remaining teeth had fallen out of their own accord.
People often had to wait months for replacements, making them reluctant to see even close family and in some cases dying before getting new teeth, dentists said.
By the time we finished the film I was dying to get my teeth stuck into something where I had creative control again.
Here, at the Gates of Fire, our deaths will serve as an altar and our doom will lead to praise: they fought with spear and sword, hands and teeth; in dying they granted their citizens time to rally.
Seeing that his ship was in the hands of the enemy, Mullon reached into his pocket for a sheet containing the French coastal codes and tore the paper to shreds with his teeth before dying.
His initial notes list the most incongruous objects: "Games, puzzles, TV circuitry, computer and transistor boards, optical instruments, piano keys, Lego, shoes, teeth, die, beads, bobbins, matches, chocolate moulds, rubber stamps, playing cards, gramophone records, film and audio tapes..."...
