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Year 2013 - Volume 33, Number 6
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Evaluation of dental changes in sincranium of Cerdocyon thous from running over in the ES-060 road, Espirito Santo, 33(6):785-790
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ABSTRACT.-Rossi Jr J.L., Castro A.P.A. & Marchesi M.D. 2012. [Evaluation of dental changes in sincranium of Cerdocyon thous from running over in the ES-060 road, Espirito Santo.] Avaliação das alterações odontológicas em sincrânios de Cerdocyon thous oriundos de atropelamentos na rodovia ES-060, Espírito Santo. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 33(6):785-790. Setor de Odontologia Veterinária, Universidade Vila Velha, Rua Comissário José Dantas de Melo 21, Boa Vista, ES 29102-770, Brazil. E-mail: joao.rossi@uvv.br
The crab-eating foxes (Cerdocyon thous Linnaeus, 1766) are animals widely found in South American countries. Although it is not an endangered species, it is possible that many of them suffer impacts from being hit by car on the highways of the country, and this is the reason why it is one of the carnivores’ species with high frequency of deaths. 32 free living sincranium stored in the osteological collection in the Laboratory of Veterinary Anatomy of Vila Velha University (Vila Velha/ES) were studied in order to diagnose diseases suffered by these individuals while alive. The main lesions identified were: crowding, no dental, dental calculus, tertiary dentin, detrition, darkening tooth, exposure of pulp, bone fenestration, fractured tooth, enamel fracture, giroversion, pigmentation and resorption of the alveolar crest. The most common findings were: no dental, dental detrition and fractured tooth. No dental before death, bone changes, dental calculus, crowding and giroversion apparently did not cause any harm to the animals while alive. |
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