MINNESOTA: An Alaskan 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.

The 360kg animal was fitted with the largest dental crown ever made in a first-of-its-kind procedure at a Minnesota zoo.

MINNESOTA: An Alaskan 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…

Tundra, an Alaska brown bear at the Lake Superior Zoo in northeastern Minnesota, has a gleaming new silver-colored canine tooth after a first-of-its-kind procedure.