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Re: Expert opinion please
« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2013, 05:34:37 PM »
No expert here, but I think that is the same skull. The incisors (little teeth) will shift after the gums and ligaments loosen with maceration. Those canine teeth are awsome in both the before and after.
I would say job well done  :tup:

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« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2013, 05:36:17 PM »
The shape of the teeth wouldn't change after whitening. It's pretty hard to tell from the pictures.

Who did the skull? It wouldn't be too difficult to get it mixed up with another but they should have been tagged with the hunters name the whole process.

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Re: Expert opinion please
« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2013, 05:39:11 PM »
Maybe a side by side would be better.
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Re: Expert opinion please
« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2013, 05:56:32 PM »
No expert, but it sure looks like the same skull to me.
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Re: Expert opinion please
« Reply #19 on: January 13, 2013, 09:29:35 PM »
Teeth often loosen up in the process and have to be glued into place.  Sometimes they don't go back exactly where they were.  It looks like the same skull to me, just a tiny shift in the teeth.

Exactly!  Looks like somone did a good job on the skull to.


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Re: Expert opinion please
« Reply #20 on: January 14, 2013, 10:25:22 AM »
boy, that side-by-side... looks like different teeth to me!   :yike:

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Re: Expert opinion please
« Reply #21 on: January 14, 2013, 10:28:28 AM »
Looks the same to me.

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Re: Expert opinion please
« Reply #22 on: January 14, 2013, 10:30:59 AM »
Well I have never seen teeth change shape.   They may shift, but the teeth arent going to change.  Seems obviously different to me.  Seems most obvious, top row, 2nd to the left from center.   :dunno:

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Re: Expert opinion please
« Reply #23 on: January 14, 2013, 10:58:50 AM »
Could be the same skull and some teeth fell out in the process and were glued back in the wrong spots. 

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Re: Expert opinion please
« Reply #24 on: January 14, 2013, 11:09:24 AM »
I'm not sure if Teeth change shape after death but the top row isn't even close to matching up. :dunno:

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Re: Expert opinion please
« Reply #25 on: January 14, 2013, 11:49:55 AM »
Teeth do not change shape after death, after cleaning, or after drying.  If they did shrink it would not be enough that you could see with your nakid eye.  The Skull will shrink a bit after it is cleaned and dry but then again your talking minimal that you wouldn't really be able to tell unless you measured it.  The most I have had a skull shrink that I have cleaned was about an 1/8 -3/8 inch.  That was a BIG skull though.

From what I am seeing, just going by the teeth, I think there is a good possibility it is the same skull. 

If the picture of the Bear after death wasn't as blurry I'd have been able to comare it a little better.

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« Reply #26 on: January 14, 2013, 12:18:03 PM »
I'm not sure I've ever been able to get teeth to go into the wrong spot. If they were in the wrong spot it would be obvious, they wouldn't match up so well, do I'd throw that possibility out.

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Re: Expert opinion please
« Reply #27 on: January 14, 2013, 12:25:32 PM »
You haven't done enough euro's yet.  They will go back in the same spot but might not line up like they were originally, especially on smaller teeth like on cats.

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Re: Expert opinion please
« Reply #28 on: January 14, 2013, 12:42:04 PM »
I'm not sure if Teeth change shape after death but the top row isn't even close to matching up. :dunno:
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i agree! the teeth are different for sure! no question there!

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Re: Expert opinion please
« Reply #29 on: January 14, 2013, 12:47:38 PM »
looks like they don't match up to me.  :twocents:

 


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