The heads and upper palates with fangs of two snakes. Engraving, ca. 1796.

Greyhound dog skull

Medieval human mandible (lower jaw bone)

A postcard illustrating a variety of good luck charms. Chromolithograph.

Digestive system: twelve figures, including teeth, intestines and colon. Line engraving by Kirkwood & Son, 1813.

Doctor's signboard hung with human teeth

Stingray or skate (Batoidea) fossilised tooth

Muscles of the neck, tongue and jaws. Colour mezzotint by J. F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1745-1746.

A dentist giving John Bull a penny after extracting a tooth; representing the effects of income tax on Great Britain. Wood engraving, 1861.

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On dentition, and some coincident disorders / by John Ashburner.

Photomacrograph of a great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth. The great white shark is one of the most popularly known sharks, with a fearsome reputation for attacking humans. It is considered the world's largest predator but has a broad range of prey which includes other marine mammals, bony fish and rays. Large white sharks can also catch reptiles, birds and other large fish. Their upper teeth are large, triangular in shape and sharply serrated which enables them to prey on large creatures. Their lower teeth are narrower and used to hold prey. Width of image is 7.5 cm.

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth

facsim. (95 pages, 43 unnumbered pages), vii, 212 pages : portrait ; 21 cm

Des Bartholomæus Eustachius Libellus de dentibus / Neudruck nach der 1. Aufl. hsg., in die deutsche Sprache übers. und erläutert, sowie einer Originalabhandlung "Bartholomæus Eustachius und seine Verdienste um die Zahnheilkunde," von Fritz Driak.

Radiograph of a maxilla and mandible showing evidence of food packing from a pre-historic Ethiopian cemetary excavated at Jebel Moya, Sudan. Related images: M0000505, M0000506

Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0000409-M0000573

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0000504: Radiograph of maxilla and mandible showing food packing

iv, 2 leaves, [9]-316 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

A popular treatise on the teeth : containing a history of the dental art ... also a full ... account of the history of ether or lethean ... / By Mayo G. Smith.

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On dentition, and some coincident disorders / by John Ashburner.

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth

Des Bartholomæus Eustachius Libellus de dentibus / Neudruck nach der 1. Aufl. hsg., in die deutsche Sprache übers. und erläutert, sowie einer Originalabhandlung "Bartholomæus Eustachius und seine Verdienste um die Zahnheilkunde," von Fritz Driak.

M0000504: Radiograph of maxilla and mandible showing food packing

A popular treatise on the teeth : containing a history of the dental art ... also a full ... account of the history of ether or lethean ... / By Mayo G. Smith.

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On dentition, and some coincident disorders / by John Ashburner.

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth

Des Bartholomæus Eustachius Libellus de dentibus / Neudruck nach der 1. Aufl. hsg., in die deutsche Sprache übers. und erläutert, sowie einer Originalabhandlung "Bartholomæus Eustachius und seine Verdienste um die Zahnheilkunde," von Fritz Driak.

M0000504: Radiograph of maxilla and mandible showing food packing

A popular treatise on the teeth : containing a history of the dental art ... also a full ... account of the history of ether or lethean ... / By Mayo G. Smith.

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