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The dental situation of rotary-engined aircraft of the Carsverse is... somewhat involved. Because of all the room taken up by their engines, the jaw structure beneath must be semi-collapsible. Their palates have "ribs" in them, attached to a floating plate that enables the mouth to assume the right shape for speech or intake when the lower jaw drops. When that jaw drops ALL the way, or close to it, a visible gap appears in the vent flaps, as seen here, because the hinge of the jaw is actually pretty far back. In shorter-nosed rotaries, *cough* El Chu *cough*, this can lead to mouth closure and impaction problems requiring surgery and dental work to correct. The bars of a piston aircraft are shorter and sometimes almost nonexistent, again, in the short-nose types. Skipper here has his canines and wolf teeth intact, but in other cases they have had to be removed if they're not growing in right. Now, we'd better take the cold metal things out of Skip's mouth and let him go before he really gets tired of having his mouth messed with.

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The dental situation of rotary-engined aircraft of the Carsverse is... somewhat involved. Because of all the room taken up by their engines, the jaw structure beneath must be semi-collapsible. Their palates have "ribs" in them, attached to a floating plate that enables the mouth to assume the right shape for speech or intake when the lower jaw drops. When that jaw drops ALL the way, or close to it, a visible gap appears in the vent flaps, as seen here, because the hinge of the jaw is actually pretty far back. In shorter-nosed rotaries, *cough* El Chu *cough*, this can lead to mouth closure and impaction problems requiring surgery and dental work to correct. The bars of a piston aircraft are shorter and sometimes almost nonexistent, again, in the short-nose types. Skipper here has his canines and wolf teeth intact, but in other cases they have had to be removed if they're not growing in right. Now, we'd better take the cold metal things out of Skip's mouth and let him go before he really gets tired of having his mouth messed with.