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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Invalidated site: Drugs.com - Dentin.	Surabhi Sinha	May 25, 2014
	Add new Web site: Drugs.com - Dentin.	Parul Jain	Dec 01, 2011
	Add new Web site: WebMd - Dentin Dysplasia.	Parul Jain	Dec 01, 2011
	Changed spelling of "dentine" to "dentin."	Virginia Gorlinski	Nov 29, 2011
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998