A 27-year-old elephant named Devidasan developed a... ...evidasan developed a painful 19-inch crack in his tusk over the past five years. CV Pradeep, a dentist i... ...repair human teeth. The difference: repairing the tusk took 47 tubes of resin in a two-hour operation!...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/27/dentists-repair-elephants-tusk/
[caption id="attachment_28290" align="aligncenter"... ...ies. In the process, they have been using their tusks to scrape and remove the cave's walls throughout...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/15/africas-elephant-cave-diggers/
If you think about it, an elephant's tusk is a big tooth. And like any tooth, a tusk can break or otherwise get damaged and the elepha... ...But how exactly does one operate on an elephant's tusk ? Dainty dental equipments surely aren't enough......
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/29/elephant-tusk-surgery/
You may be familiar with Scrat, the “saber-tooth... ...ara Falls, New York. This squirrel has an unusual tusk growing out of its lower jaw! Mary Jo Sutter has...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/saber-toothed-squirrel/
