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What is the name of your canine teeth?

The canine teeth, also called cuspids, dog teeth, fangs, or eye teeth. Usually the term canine teeth is used but rarely cuspids.


What are the teeth at the front of a person's mouth called?

There are twelve cutting teeth at the front of the mouth. There are 8 incisors (front teeth) and 4 cuspids or canine teeth (also known as eyeteeth).The two middle teeth at the top and bottom of the mouth are called central incisors. The teeth adjacent to the central Incisors are called lateral incisors. The pointed teeth to either side of the incisors are the cuspids.


What does a canine tooth do to your food?

Canine teeth are also called fangs or dogteeth. They are used to hold prey in the mouth so it be torn and eaten.


What is the plural form of eyetooth?

eyeteeth


Another name for canine teeth?

The canine teeth have also been called cuspids, dogteeth, fangs, or, in the case of those of the upper jaw, eye teeth.


Can the eye tooth affect the eyes?

No. They are called "eyeteeth" because they are located directly below the eyes. They are also called "canines" because they are pointed, like a dog's teeth, and help us to shred or cut certain foods, such as tough meats.


What is the plural for eyetooth?

The plural for the noun eyetooth is eyeteeth.


What job does a canine do?

'The canine' can either be the pet dog, in which case its functions are to guard your house and be your friend. or 'The canine teeth', also called cuspids, dogteeth or fangs, in which case they are used primarily for firmly holding food in order to tear it apart, and occasionally as weapons.


What is a newborn canine called?

A pup.


What is the another name for your canine teeth?

It is called teeth but the front sharp teeth are called canine teeth and other animals have canine teeth too.


What do they use their canine teeth for?

They are shaped like a dogs teeth and so they are called canine teeth


What are canine teeth sometimes called?

I teeth