Dental anatomy exam 1

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Primary teeth form

14 weeks

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Primary teeth complete

3 years

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Primary teeth appear

6 months

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Primary teeth last emmerge

28-30 months

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Primary teeth remain until around

6 years

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Primary teeth are also known as

deciduous teeth

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Permanent teeth are sometimes known as

Succedaneous

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Succedaneous dentition

Permanent teeth that replace primary teeth. They HAVE to replace to be Succedaneous.

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Transitional\mixed definition

Primary and permanent teeth mixed. Normally around 6-12 years old.

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Permanent teeth completion

14-15 years, normally 18-25 for 3rd molars (wisdom)

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What teeth are Succedaneous to the 1st and 2nd primary molars?

1st & 2nd primary premolars

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Universal

A-K primary, 1-32 permanent

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Palmer

Adult is #, primary is letter!

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Most of the tooth is made of

dentin

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What is the clinical crown?

Portion of the tooth visible in the mouth

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What is the anatomical crown?

portion of the tooth covered by enamel

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The root is covered with

cementum, a thin layer

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Pulp cavity

A pulp chamber (crown) and pulp canals (root)

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Three hard tissues of teeth

Enamel, cementum, dentin

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One soft tissue of tooth

Pulp

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alveolar process

Tooth sockets, gums

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Facial

Labial and buccal

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Buccal

cheek region

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labial

Toward the lips. Used in reference to the incisors and canines

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Which 4 teeth have mesial surfaces that contact each other?

Central incisors

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Cusp

Elevation or mound of tooth

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Tubercle

Smaller elevation on portion of crown

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Cingulum

lingual lobe of anterior teeth

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Ridge

Linear elevation on tooth

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Cusp of Carabelli

Like an extra butt for the tooth

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Marginal ridge

Rounded, raised border on the mesial and distal portions of the lingual surfaces of anterior teeth and the occlusal table of posterior teeth.

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Triangular ridge

An elevation of enamel that descends from the cusp into the middle area of the occlusal surface. Molars, premolars, sometimes lingual surfaces & max incisors

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Transverse ridge

Ridge formed by joining of two triangular ridges crossing occlusal table transversely or from labial to lingual outline

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Oblique ridge

Transverse ridge that crosses occlusal table obliquely from mesiolingual to distobuccal on most maxillary molars

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Fossa

Relatively deep pit or depression