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Premolar facts for kids

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Medical animation showing Premolar teeth and its arrangement in the mouth of an adult human being.

The premolar teeth of mammals are the teeth between the canines and the molars. There are at most a total of eight of them. The number is reduced in the dental formula of many species.

As the name suggests, they are like smaller molars, and their function is to crush and grind food.

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    Base of skull, interior surface

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Diente premolar para niños

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