Mophologic Analysis of the teeth and his relation with the slaughter age of buffalos

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Felicianna Clara Fonseca dos
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Sousa, Alana Lislea, Machado Júnior, Antonio Augusto Nascimento, Lima, Francisco Carneiro, Alves, Flávio Ribeiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Ciência animal brasileira (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufg.br/vet/article/view/1818
• topic: Anatomia; búfalos; dentes; abate

t was evaluated to the morphology of the incisors teeth of 100 buffaloes of slaughterhouses in Sao Luiz, seeking to relate them with your age of slaughter. The dental arches of the buffalos were taken to the laboratory of Anatomy/UEMA, for analysis of the incisors teeth. The results showed that the incisors teeth was composed for 4 pair, disposed in semicircle, denominated of 1ts, 2nd, 3rt and 4th pairs of incisors teeth (tweezers, first medium, seconds medium and songs). It was evidenced two teethings, deciduous and definitive, with forms and varied sizes, and variables levels of dental wear and tear, besides the presence of longitudinal grooves in the surface of the deciduous and definitive teeth with coloration varying from brown clear to darkness. With the dental analysis it was possible to distinguish five groups of animals that are depressed in the Maranhão and the group of smaller animals than 2.5 years and larger than 5.5 years were the more frequently observed. After morphologic and chronological evaluation of the incisors teeth of buffaloes, it was conclude that the buffaloes present a dental morphology similar the others ruminants and that, in function of the dental observation, the depressed buffaloes in Maranhão don’t follow pattern defined for discard. KEY WORD: Anatomy, buffaloes, teeth, slaughter.