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The heads and upper palates with fangs of two snakes. Engraving, ca. 1796.

Greyhound dog skull

Medieval human mandible (lower jaw bone)

A postcard illustrating a variety of good luck charms. Chromolithograph.

Digestive system: twelve figures, including teeth, intestines and colon. Line engraving by Kirkwood & Son, 1813.

Doctor's signboard hung with human teeth

Stingray or skate (Batoidea) fossilised tooth

Muscles of the neck, tongue and jaws. Colour mezzotint by J.F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1745-1746.

A dentist giving John Bull a penny after extracting a tooth; representing the effects of income tax on Great Britain. Wood engraving, 1861.

On dentition, and some coincident disorders / by John Ashburner.

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth

Des Bartholomæus Eustachius Libellus de dentibus / Neudruck nach der 1. Aufl. hsg., in die deutsche Sprache übers. und erläutert, sowie einer Originalabhandlung "Bartholomæus Eustachius und seine Verdienste um die Zahnheilkunde," von Fritz Driak.

M0000504: Radiograph of maxilla and mandible showing food packing

A popular treatise on the teeth : containing a history of the dental art ... also a full ... account of the history of ether or lethean ... / By Mayo G. Smith.

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On dentition, and some coincident disorders / by John Ashburner.

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth

Des Bartholomæus Eustachius Libellus de dentibus / Neudruck nach der 1. Aufl. hsg., in die deutsche Sprache übers. und erläutert, sowie einer Originalabhandlung "Bartholomæus Eustachius und seine Verdienste um die Zahnheilkunde," von Fritz Driak.

M0000504: Radiograph of maxilla and mandible showing food packing

A popular treatise on the teeth : containing a history of the dental art ... also a full ... account of the history of ether or lethean ... / By Mayo G. Smith.