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Using these data, the team estimated "conditioned dental diversity", eliminating cases where people had all their teeth "present and healthy" or people who were "edentulous"

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Statistics Canada reported recently that the number of Canadians who are now "edentulous," as dentists like to say, has fallen off greatly in recent years.

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'edentulous' considerable latitude may be permitted, and is indeed desirable, so that it may in practice be applied to many individuals who, according to meticulous physiological standards, should not be so classified.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919 Various

This is never so ruinous than in the case of ghostly Mae Nak Pornthip Papanai, a suitably mournful spook who is given a JU-ON style edentulous maw that knocked me each time right out of the picture.

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In Caudipteryx, four procumbent teeth are present in each premaxilla, but the rest of the skull is edentulous.

Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

The jaws are entirely edentulous and the tightly coiled cochlear canal indicates specialized high-frequency hearing.

Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

Bizarre long-tailed, robust-jawed Jeholornis (almost certainly synonymous with Shenzhouraptor, and perhaps with Jixiangornis too), known from stomach contents to have eaten seeds at least occasionally, has just three very small teeth at each lower jaw tip (Zhou & Zhang 2002): the upper jaw was edentulous.

The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006

In Caudipteryx, four procumbent teeth are present in each premaxilla, but the rest of the skull is edentulous.

The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006

Bizarre long-tailed, robust-jawed Jeholornis (almost certainly synonymous with Shenzhouraptor, and perhaps with Jixiangornis too), known from stomach contents to have eaten seeds at least occasionally, has just three very small teeth at each lower jaw tip (Zhou & Zhang 2002): the upper jaw was edentulous.

Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

There was our letter printed in full, and below it was the epoch-making decision of the Government: "A special ration of soft food may be issued to edentulous persons in famine camps."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919 Various