Teeth Morphology
Help biting and tearing food.
What is a Canine (cuspid or cornerstone)?
The surface closest to the midline of the face.
What is Mesial?
The top part of your tooth.
What is a Crown?
Permanent teeth are numbered from 1 to 32.
What is the Universal/National System?
Joints on each side of the head allow for movement of the mandible for speech and mastication.
What is Temporomandibular Joint ? (TMJ)
Posterior third molar.
What is a Wisdom Tooth?
The part of the tooth that faces the cheek.
What is Buccal?
It is a yellow-ish tissue that makes up the majority of your tooth.
What is Dentin?
Each of the four quadrants is given its own tooth bracket, which consists of a vertical and a horizontal line.
What is the Palmer Notation System?
A small structure that hangs from the soft palate above the rest of the tongue.
What is Uvula? (Bell)
Large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth
What is a Molar?
The surface that faces the tongue.
What is lingual?
Part of your tooth between the root and crown.
What is the Neck?
A tooth that replaces a child's milk tooth and can last a lifetime.
What is a Permanent Tooth?
The upper and posterior roughened surface of the tongue.
What is Dorsum?
Single-rooted teeth with relatively sharp, thin edges
What is Incisor?
The chewing surface of posterior teeth.
What is Occlusal?
It is the hardest material in your body.
What is the Enamel?
Numbering begins with the upper-right #A and works around to the upper-left #J. Then numbering drops to the lower-left #K and works around to lower-right #T
What is the Universal/International Primary System?
Separates the nasal cavity above from the oral cavity below.
What is a Hard Palate?
The pointed buccal cusps hold the food while the lingual cusps grind it.
What is a Premolar (Bicuspid)?
Tooth surfaces that are next to each other.
What is Proximal? (inter-proximal)
Consists of cells, blood vessels, and the nerves of your tooth.
What is the Pulp?
The method uses a two-digit tooth-recording system.
What is the International Standards Organization System? (ISO/FDI)
Produce saliva, which lubricates and cleanses the oral cavity and aids in the digestion of food through an enzymatic process.
What is Salivary Glands?