Ben Pullar, who is autistic and has bi-polar disorder, had two teeth knocked out when he was a patient, then aged 18, at Winterbourne View.

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But despite the incidence of tooth decay and erosion, the majority of youngsters do seem to be aware of the importance of dental hygiene - two thirds of them brush their teeth twice a day.

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United piled on the pressure in the second half after manager Neil Warnock threw on two new strikers in an attempt to show more teeth - Asaba and Dutchman Ten Heuvel.

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It had a parrot-like beak with two stabbing canines at the front and tall teeth tucked behind for slicing plants.

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Two years ago Monaco passed a new anti-money-laundering law with some teeth, committing to international standards of transparency and tax-information exchanges with over 20 states.

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In a paper published this month in the journal Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, Buchholz, Spalding and their colleagues showed that after examining 44 teeth from 41 people they could determine ages within about two years--far better than more common methods like looking at patterns of wear and the changes that proteins in the teeth undergo as people age.

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American father-of-two Mr Ewert died in September 2006 after drinking a mixture of sedatives and using his teeth to turn off his ventilator.

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Of her three children, one had multiple fractures, one had bad teeth - a symptom of neglect, but also a sign of OI - and two had blue tinges to the white of their eyes.

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However, given their small size (two million of them would be needed to cover a semi-colon) their options are limited - no teeth to grab, no claws for fighting.

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