permanent tooth

noun

First recorded in 1830–40

This ridge is absent or at most faintly indicated in the permanent tooth.

When the child is six years old the first permanent tooth appears just back of the last of the milk teeth.

In the molars, the final pattern is acquired, therefore, before the deciduous premolar has been replaced by the permanent tooth.

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