CH 4 DENTITION
The first succedaneous teeth to erupt.
What are the permanent mandibular central incisors?
These teeth continue to calcify until you are in your 20's.
What are 3rd molars?
These teeth are primarily used for classification in Angle's Classification of occlusion.
What are the maxillary and mandibular 1st molars?
After the 3rd molars, this permanent tooth is most likely to be congenitally missing.
What is the maxillary lateral incisors?
The number of teeth in the permanent dentition.
What is 32?
The process by which the roots of a primary tooth are resorbed, causing the tooth to lose its anchorage, become loose, and fall out.
What is exfoliation?
The most common Angle's classification of occlusion.
What is Class I?
The most common supernumerary tooth (teeth).
What are mesiodens?
The number of teeth in the primary dentition.
What is 20?
As a permanent tooth erupts, osteoclastic cells destroy the root of the tooth.
What is resorption?
The amount of facial horizontal overlap of the maxillary teeth.
What is overjet?
Anomalies that are characteristic of congenital syphilis.
What are Mulberry molars and Hutchinson's incisors?
A patient has porcelain crowns on #3 and #14; these teeth are known as
What are the maxillary 1st molars?
Rounded protuberances on the incisal edges of newly erupted incisors.
What are mamelons?
Most children have this type of primary occlusion.
What is mesial step?
Two teeth are joined at the dentin, and there is one less tooth in the dentition.
What is fusion?
In the Universal Numbering System, #9 refers to which tooth.
What is the maxillary left central incisor?
The last area of the tooth to become calcified.
What is the apex of the root?
The way your teeth fit together by habit, it is related to occlusion, it affords the greatest interdigitation of the teeth, and it is not determined by muscle and bone.
What is centric occlusion?
Abnormalities that result from factors such as heredity, metabolic disfunctions, or mutations.
What are intrinsic factors?