<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Hi: Have you tried soaking in water for a few days, if left too long the teeth fall out. This is from soaking skulls after the bugging.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 17, 2025, at 3:32 PM, Elizabeth Wommack <ewommack@uwyo.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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Hello everyone,</div>
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The UWYMV has a graduate student working on a project on martens, and needs to remove two lower premolars for aging purposes. The animals are being processed right now (they're coming to us as skinned carcasses and we are cleaning, sampling, drying, then to
the dermestid colonies they go), and we are trying to figure out the best method to get those premolars out of the lower jaw.</div>
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The student has experience pulling teeth from bears, and we have several tooth pulling instruments for bears and humans, but they are too large for these teeth (the teeth shatter when grasped). </div>
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It has been recommended to boil the lower jaws slowly at 130 degrees Fahrenheit, but that hasn't loosened the teeth after boiling for 3 hours. </div>
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Our next attempts will be for the dermestids to clean them and see if they are loosened by the bugs, or maceration.</div>
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Does anyone have experience removing small teeth from mammal skulls and has a consistent method that works? I have had teeth fall out on me after they come out of the bugs, but it is not a regular occurrence (and until now I've tried to avoid it).</div>
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Any help or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!</div>
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Thank you,</div>
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Beth Wommack</div>
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Elizabeth Wommack, PhD</div>
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Curator and Collections Manager of Vertebrates<br>
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University of Wyoming,<br>
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