The wolf tooth typically falls out before the horse's third birthday, but if it doesn't, its presence can be painful for horses wearing a metal bit, the researchers said.

In a practice that's been conducted in Mongolia for at least 2,500 years, a herder removes first premolar, or “wolf tooth”, from a young horse.

Horses can have anywhere from four wolf teeth to none at all; however, it's common for horses to erupt one or two upper wolf teeth. The most caudal group of teeth in an equine mouth are the cheek ...

When wolf teeth grow in, “they fit right in the space where the mouthpiece of a bridle or a bit would go. … Today one of the main aspects of horse dentistry is extracting these.” ...

Horses between 5 years of age and up to 20 continue to have the need for the filing down of sharp points, floating of their molars, but by this age they should also have a dental evaluation for ...

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The unexpected discovery of a 16th-century horse tooth in modern-day Haiti has provided credence for an age-old folk story about the origin of feral horses on an island off Maryland and Virginia.