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As well as working as a dentist in Sharon, Connecticut, Martin Nweeia is a clinical instructor at Harvard University’s School of Dental Medicine and a research associate in the department of zoology at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. He is the principal investigator of the Narwhal Tooth Expedition and Research Investigation, a multidisciplinary research project he began five years ago (www.narwhal.org). He is also an accomplished musician and author of “The Whole Tooth” (Randall Morita Design, 1999)

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