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extra tooth
Supernumerary tooth
Tooth that is in the wrong place
Out of place
Ectopic tooth
to shed deciduous teeth:
loss of primary dentition
Exfoliate
Space between two adjacent teeth in the same dental arch
Diastema
without teeth
space where there should be a tooth or teeth
Edentulous
Edentate
failure of teeth to form
congential absense of teeth (applies to primary/deciduous or secondary/permanent teeth)
Anodontia
abnormally small teeth
may apply to one, several or all teeth
Microdontia
fewer than the normal number of teeth
Oligodontia
toward the midline of the denatl arch
Mesial
away from the midline of the dental arch
Distal
adjacent to or pertaining to the check, as in buccal aspect of the surface of a tooth
Buccal
pertaining to or adjacent to the tongue, as in the ___ aspect of the surface of the tooth
lingual
involuntary grinding or clenching of teeth
Bruxism
open area in the occlusion
Most common is anterior ____?
Openbite
occlusal deviation where the maxillary teeth are lingual to the mandibular teeth; can be unilateral or bilateral?
Crossbite
too much
vertical
overlap of maxillary incisors over mandibular incisors
Overbite/deepbite
too much
horizontal
overlap of maxillary incisors over mandibular incisors
Overjet
one of three tubercles sometimes present on the cutting edge of a tooth
Mamelon
Abnormal fixation of a tooth in the jaw with consolidation of alveolar bone and cementum of tooth
Ankylosis
Is based on the relationship between the mandibular and maxillary first permanent molars?
Angle's Classification of Occlusion
The mandibular first molar is approximately 1/2 tooth ahead of the opposing maxillary first molar?
Angle Class I Occlusion
The mandibular first molar is approximately 1/2 tooth behind the opposing maxillary first molar?
Angle Class II Occlusion: Malolclussion
Normal molar relationship
Angle Class I Occlusion
Malocclusion: returded mandible
Angel Class II Occlusion
Malocclusion: prognathic mandible
Angle Class III Occlusion
The mandibular first molar is approximately one whole tooth ahead of the opposing maxillary first molar?
Angle Class III Occlusion
Author
melihuff
ID
13100
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structure
Description
Mod 11 Dental definitions
Updated
2010-04-05T02:38:39Z
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