Upper-case letters designate the permanent dentition, while lower-case letters identify deciduous teeth.
Forty-six of the supernumerary teeth occurred at the distal end of the tooth row and formed part of the functional dentition.
More recent work on seal populations has suggested that some species are known to have a more variable dentition than others.
In addition, the poor preservation of the sample made analyses of the dentition impossible for discrete individuals.
Teenage patients usually need further complex orthodontics to straighten the maxillary dentition as it erupts and deal with absent and aberrant teeth.
It is possible that the upper dentition is more prone to variability in various ways, one of which is the presence of additional teeth.
This approach is clearly evident in the chapters detailing pressure sore management and mobility, and in the chapters on nutrition, vitamins, anorexia of ageing and dentition.
Unfor tunately, neither dentition is available for study.
