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Dental is an articulation of consonants which involves the tongue tip or blade and the upper front teeth. The vocal tract is narrowed or closed.

Example

In the production of the Dutch /n/, the tongue tip is raised towards the upper front teeth.

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics