Anomaly Oddities
Tissue Talk
Oral Mucosa
Gingival Description
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100

The name of the dental anomaly with two crowns and one root.

What is Gemination?

100

The structure that separates epithelium and connective tissue.

What is the basement membrane?
100

The lingual papillae on the lateral borders of the tongue.

What are the foliate papillae?

100

The interdental gingiva between the teeth that forms a valley between the facial and lingual surfaces.

What is the col?

100

Red and white patches covering the dorsal surface of the tongue that migrate.

What is geographic tongue?

200

The name of the dental anomaly when teeth are absent?

What is anodontia?

200

The name of the tissue type that covers and lines both the external and internal body surfaces.

What is epithelium?

200

The lingual papillae shaped in a V shaped pattern pointing backward on the tongue.

What are circumvallate papillae?

200

The term for the "orange peel" appearance of the gingiva.

What is stippling?

200

Enlargement involving a major salivary gland.

What is a ranula?

300

The name of the anomaly when the ameloblasts over produce a small spherical projection on the tooth surface.

What is enamel pearl?
300

There are two main divisions of the nervous system, the central nervous system and the __________system.

What is the Peripheral Nervous System?

300

The attached gingiva and hard palate are covered with this type of oral mucosa.

What is masticatory mucosa?

300

Recession plus pocket depth =

What is clinical attachment loss?

300

Enlargement involving a minor salivary gland.

What is a mucocele?

400

The name of the dental anomaly when there is an extra tooth in between #8 and #9.

What is mesiodens?

400

The term used to describe the time it takes for newly divided cells to be completely replaced in a tissue.

What is turnover time?

400

The term for hyperkeratinization of the buccal mucosa.

What is Linea Alba?

400

A cleft like area of gingival recession, often due to occlusal trauma.

What is Stillman's cleft?
400

Hyperkeratinization of the palatal mucosa due to smoking.

What is nicotinic stomatitis?

500

The name of the anomaly when cementum overproduces on the surface of the root.

What is concrescence?

500
The term for trapped deposits of sebum from misplaced sebaceous gland cells.

What is Fordyce spots?

500

The type of oral mucosa that covers the ventral surface of the tongue and the soft palate. 

What is lining mucosa?

500

The early stage of periodontal disease, characterized by gingival inflammation.

What is gingivitis?

500

The type of glands that have no ducts. 

What are endocrine glands?