Denticles is a term referring to the anatomy of teeth. Teeth can be viewed as seperate life forms, they have the same characteristics as hair. They develop in quite the same way. Denticles refers to an anomalie of tooth development in which the teeth develop ball like structures. These balls can vary in size and usually appear bigger in african american patients. They can be easily visible in a periapical x-ray or a pan.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)