Dental Terminology: Hooks and Points
This is the first in a series of dentistry guides that will help you understand the terms used to describe your horse’s teeth. Since this is the first guide, we'll start with some basic dental anatomy concepts before moving on to the definitions of hooks and points. Horses erupt two sets of teeth in their lifetime, just like we do: deciduous (baby) teeth, and permanent (adult) teeth. For right now, we’ll just be talking about the permanent set of teeth, since this is what we