Livestock Farm Practice

DENTITION OF PIGS

• Temporary - 3/3 1/1 3/3 0/0
• Permanent - 3/3 1/1 4/4 3/3
• Eruption of teeth in pigs is peculiar unlike the other animals, the corners erupt first. Then the centrals, lastly the lateral and intermediately paired incisors.
• Regarding molars, the 1^st tooth in each jaw medically behind tusk comes out at 5-6 months and remains throughout life while the next 3 premolars are represented in the temporary dentition.