Dental Team & History
Founder of the ADAA
Juliette Southard
Dentifrice is usually called...
Toothpaste
Largest organ of the body
Skin
Four fundamental taste senses
Salty, sweet, sour, bitter
Number of teeth in primary dentition
20
Discovered X-rays
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Inflammation of gingival tissues
Gingivitis
Non-striated, involuntary muscles
Smooth muscles
V-shaped depression between lips and nose
Philtrum
Trifurcated
Dental specialty not recognized by ADAA
Forensic Dentistry
Optimum level of fluoride
1ppm
Plane of the body divided into left & right
Sagittal plane
Excess dryness of the mouth
Xerostomia
Pointed/rounded mounds on crown of teeth
Cusps
Four principles of the ADAA are education, service, loyalty, ____
Efficiency
Why nausea must be treated by dentists
Regurgitation of stomach acid to teeth
Neurons that carry messages away from spinal cord and brain
Motor neurons
Artery that supplies most of teeth
Mandibular artery
Line that divides the crown & root where they meet
Cervical line
Grand Old Man of Dentistry
Dr. Greene Vardiman Black
Fat soluable minerals
A, D, E, K
System of the body that includes thyroids
Endocrine
Pocket formed by tissue of cheeks & gingiva
Oral vestibule/mucobuccal fold
Triangular space between teeth under contact area
Embrasures