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Shows a sheep’s tooth with scooped out dentine (d) and cementum (c) leaving ‘sickle’-shaped enamel blades (e) (shown in blue). The green arrow shows the movement direction of the blade system (dotted green line) from teeth in the opposing arch that causes scissorial point cutting where the blades contact
