Closer to home, despite the imposition of dental charges in Britain since the 1950s, there has been a steady rise in the proportion of people with a healthy set of teeth.

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Fenelon's is a plastic set of parallel vertical tracks with teeth.

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In the middle of November, a freakish weather pattern set in howling wind with ice in its teeth.

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Once that was done, he set to the real work: with hand drills, handsaws (their teeth rubbed, to run more smoothly, with a candle end), his bevelled-edge chisel and his wide, heavy, trusty Number 7 plane, which he used for everything.

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