ORIGINAL: RSB
ORIGINAL: White-tail-deer
Cool story RSB. How hard is it to pull a tooth out of a bear?
It isn’t hard at all if you are taking the correct tooth out. The tooth we take out is a very small tooth that sits right behind the canine tooth (both top and bottom) and just barely protrudes through the gums. It lays back at an angle below the gum line and is very easy to remove if you break the membrane around the tooth first and then work it back a forth a bit.
If you tried to pull any other tooth you would have a very difficult time getting it out and the removal would be harmful to the bear. I’ll have to try to remember to take a picture of the small tooth we remove and post it for all to see just how small it really is.
The tooth is sent out to wherea thin slice is removed, dyed and examined under a microscope. The tooth gets a ring, like a tree, each year and that is how it is aged. It does require a microscope though to count the rings.
R.S. Bodenhorn