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Definition of Permanent tooth
1. Noun. Any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age.
Medical Definition of Permanent tooth
1. 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. (05 Mar 2000)
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