Replacement Teeth (IMAGE)
Caption
Replacement teeth (in gold) are sitting on a stack of resorption surfaces that like the plates in a cupboard, which evidences this tooth site has been replaced four times. In contrast, the other dentine units, the tooth-like odontodes (in red) and the gap-filling odontodes (in pink) that bury them, never experience basal resorption and won't be shed.
Credit
Donglei Chen
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May only be published in connection to reports about the research by Chen et al.
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