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Students in IPFW's Dental Laboratory Technology Program probably never thought they'd be making teeth the size of shoe boxes...but they are.
Albino Perez, IPFW associate professor of dental technology, and his students took on the task of re-creating mastodon teeth from a casting given to IPFW's Jim Farlow by a fellow paleontologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Perez says a lot of teamwork is involved in order to successfully make these re-creations. That teamwork was demonstrated March 30 at Neff Hall, when Perez and his students made some "masto-teeth" for interested spectators.
The teeth are being made to complement a special curriculum available to all Allen County school corporations as a way to teach students about mastodons. That project is part of the Mastodons on Parade, a feature of IPFW's 40th anniversary celebration.
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Related story: Meet the mastodon herd May 1 at IPFW
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