An Alaska brown bear has a new shiny smile after getting a huge metal crown for a canine tooth

[Javaman]

https://apnews.com/article/zoo-bear-new-tooth-minnesota-3ab655df55af846ec673a97c09123902

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — An Alaska brown bear at the Lake Superior Zoo in northeastern Minnesota has a gleaming new silver-colored canine tooth in a first-of-its-kind procedure for a bear.

The 800-pound (360-kilogram) Tundra was put under sedation Monday and fitted with a new crown — the largest dental crown ever created, according to the zoo.

“He’s got a little glint in his smile now,” zoo marketing manager Caroline Routley said Wednesday.

The hour-long procedure was done by Dr. Grace Brown, a board-certified veterinary dentist who helped perform a root canal on the same tooth two years ago. When Tundra reinjured the tooth, the decision was made to give him a new, stronger crown. The titanium alloy crown, made by Creature Crowns of Post Falls, Idaho, was created for Tundra from a wax caste of the tooth.

Brown plans to publish a paper on the procedure in the Journal of Veterinary Dentistry later this year.

[Xavier Breath]

1. "Hello, Tundra? This is Stacey with Dr. Brown's office."

"Um, we're having an issue with your insurance on this last procedure we did for you..."

[Wonder Why]

2. Well, I can barely bear the the pain from the route of my Erie Canal and I'm willing to give

a performance at the zoo for a free dental crown. After all, it would make me King of this country or allow me to get free Prince[sic] at Staples. And that will help improve my mental Staplebility. And I won't be pain[sic] for it.

BTW, was that a young bear? If so, the Scottish would call it a Bairn.