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Tooth development

I would like to improve this article to the quality of a featured article. This was first a stub linked from the now featured article tooth enamel but remained very much a stub for a while. Wikipedia has very few articles on dental topics generally (and very very few of high quality). Thus, the more high-quality dental articles on wikipedia, the merrier! -Dozenist talk 04:20, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The article is really well done, but like the tooth enamel article initially, it doesn't mention tooth development in other species. There are some really interesting variations on tooth develpment in the animal kingdom. So I'd add some detail or move the article to Human tooth development.

On the technical side, if you want to shorten the notes list, you can link multiple instances of the same note using a template, you can see it in use on Canberra.--nixie 05:42, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Concerning the note list, would it be a problem that I have listed the page numbers to many of the references and many of them are different? If so, then I would think it may be a good idea to keep the notes listed separately so that the pages are listed (the books are pretty big books). If not, then that sounds like a great idea.

You can see how the first citation, with multiple page references, was done in Gettysburg_Address#Notes. (SEWilco 06:09, 23 December 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Concerning tooth development in different animals, that information is going to be a little more difficult for me to find, as opposed to the broader topic of enamel in animals, but let me see what I can find before giving up and moving the article. -Dozenist talk 13:15, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Since human and animal tooth development is generally very similar, this article will really describe tooth development for both (with the focus obviously on humans). Nonetheless, I put a little section in the article and a link to an article focusing on variations/differences in animal tooth development. For now, I think I'm going to keep the notes the way they are because the footnotes in the article are labeled by the subject matter and page number. That way, if I ever need to look up a reference in the book, or if someone wants to verify it, we will all be able to see the exact idea I was referring to and the page number used in the book. -Dozenist talk 01:08, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A search for odontogenesis should bring this article up.

maybe tooth development in humans and certain animals is similar (not that I say certain), but more is known about tooth development in animals than in humans. Tummers 11:24, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]