Permanent tooth: [TA] 1 of 32 teeth belonging to the second, or permanent, dentition; eruption of the permanent teeth begins from the fifth to the seventh year, and is not completed until the 17th-23rd year, when the last of the third molars appears. SYN: dens permanens [TA], dens succedaneus, second tooth, secondary dentition, succedaneous dentition, succedaneous tooth.
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Permanent tooth: any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age.
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