See Also: dens succedaneus(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
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dens succedaneus (medicine)


dens succedaneus -->
permanent tooth


One of the 32 teeth belonging to the second or permanent dentition; eruption of the permanent teeth begins from the fifth to the seventh year, and is not completed until the seventeenth to the twenty-third year, when the last of the wisdom teeth appears.

Synonym: dens permanens, dens succedaneus, second tooth, secondary dentition, succedaneous dentition, succedaneous tooth.