Crossword-Solution: BICUSPIDS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

These natives, following no doubt an observance prevalent among the Dayaks, had some of their teeth filed off in the upper jaw, the four incisors, two cuspids, and two bicuspids.

The tooth beyond on each side is an eye tooth, and the next two on each side are bicuspids, or premolars.

They like to explain to each other how they feel when the dentist puts "that buzzer thing" against their bicuspids, and, if sufficiently pressed, they will describe their sensations on mouthing a rubber dam.

They are replaced by permanent teeth, of which there are sixteen in each jaw; four incisors, or front teeth, four cuspids, or eye teeth, four bicuspids, or grinders, and four molars, or large grinders.

Back of these are two short, rounded and double pointed teeth, the _bicuspids_, and back of the bicuspids are three heavy teeth with irregular grinding surfaces, called the _molars_ (_B_ and _C_, Fig.