Anomaly Oddities
The name of the dental anomaly with two crowns and one root.
What is Gemination?
The structure that separates epithelium and connective tissue.
The lingual papillae on the lateral borders of the tongue.
What are the foliate papillae?
The interdental gingiva between the teeth that forms a valley between the facial and lingual surfaces.
What is the col?
Red and white patches covering the dorsal surface of the tongue that migrate.
What is geographic tongue?
The name of the dental anomaly when teeth are absent?
What is anodontia?
The name of the tissue type that covers and lines both the external and internal body surfaces.
What is epithelium?
The lingual papillae shaped in a V shaped pattern pointing backward on the tongue.
What are circumvallate papillae?
The term for the "orange peel" appearance of the gingiva.
What is stippling?
Enlargement involving a major salivary gland.
What is a ranula?
The name of the anomaly when the ameloblasts over produce a small spherical projection on the tooth surface.
There are two main divisions of the nervous system, the central nervous system and the __________system.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
The attached gingiva and hard palate are covered with this type of oral mucosa.
What is masticatory mucosa?
Recession plus pocket depth =
What is clinical attachment loss?
Enlargement involving a minor salivary gland.
What is a mucocele?
The name of the dental anomaly when there is an extra tooth in between #8 and #9.
What is mesiodens?
The term used to describe the time it takes for newly divided cells to be completely replaced in a tissue.
What is turnover time?
The term for hyperkeratinization of the buccal mucosa.
What is Linea Alba?
A cleft like area of gingival recession, often due to occlusal trauma.
Hyperkeratinization of the palatal mucosa due to smoking.
What is nicotinic stomatitis?
The name of the anomaly when cementum overproduces on the surface of the root.
What is concrescence?
What is Fordyce spots?
The type of oral mucosa that covers the ventral surface of the tongue and the soft palate.
What is lining mucosa?
The early stage of periodontal disease, characterized by gingival inflammation.
What is gingivitis?
The type of glands that have no ducts.
What are endocrine glands?