Persistent deciduous teeth in dogs is a medical condition that happens when a pup’s adult teeth start to come through before their baby teeth fall out. Sometimes, it is also referred to as persistent ...

Like most mammals, humans are diphyodont: We have two sets of teeth – baby teeth and adult teeth. The technical term for our baby teeth is deciduous teeth because they fall out, the same way deciduous ...

Marin A. Pilloud, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of Nevada, Reno in the Department of Anthropology. Prior to this appointment, she was a forensic anthropologist with the Defense ...