Posterior teeth more accessible than are posterior teeth. Sometimes dental health and choice of dental treatment are influenced by this factor. Posterior teeth In dentistry, the term posterior teeth usually refers as a group to the premolars and molars, as distinguished from the anterior teeth, which are the incisors and canine teeth. The distinction is one of anterior (front of the body) versus posterior (rear of the body). The distinction holds in both the upper jaw (maxilla) and lower jaw (mandible). As a rough guide, it can be said that the anterior teeth are tailored to biting (breaking the food into chewable
Pharyngeal teeth new species of "Meiopriapulus", a marine worm in the Priapulida, bears pharyngeal teeth. Fossils of the "Yunnanozoon" and "Haikouella" possess pharyngeal teeth. The lower pharyngeal bones of cichlids also carry specialized teeth which augment their normal mandibular teeth in the breakdown of food. Pharyngeal teeth Pharyngeal teeth are teeth in the pharyngeal arch of the throat of cyprinids, suckers, and a number of other fish species otherwise lacking teeth. Many popular aquarium fish such as goldfish and loaches have these structures. Members of the genus "Botia" such as clown loaches are known to make distinctive clicking sounds when they grind