Anatomy of Oral Cavity Flashcards
Retromolar pad
Tissue covering retromolar
Fornix
Deepest part of fornix.
Dental anomalies
Related to embryonic development. Excess, absence or deformity of a body part. Common on maxillary arch, less so on mandibular arch. More common on permanent dentition.
Anodontia
Absence of teeth- total and partial.
Adentuous
No teeth because of extraction.
Ectoderm
responsible for generating teeth, nails, hair, sebaceous and salivary glands.
Ectodermal displasia
No teeth, no eyebrows, no hair, teeth, nails, glands.
Partial anodontia
Most commonly missing adult teeth: third molars (especially max.), max lateral incisors 1-2% of pop, mandibular second premolars 1%.
Missing primary
Mandibular central incisors - occasionally permanent mand. central incisor is also missing. Very rare anomaly.
Extra or supernumerary teeth
Permanent dentitions and 90% of max arch. Low occurance in primary dentition. Max incisor area, third molar area, mand. premolar area.
Extra max central incisor
Sometimes missing lateral. Most common area for having a spare tooth.
Mesiodens
Develop from a single lobe.Mesiodens located on midline
Extra molars ** check this, this doesn’t make too much sense.
Paramolar: located buccal or lingual
Distomolar: behind molars.
Fourth molar: located buccal or lingual
Gardner Syndrome
Too many damn teeth.
Malformed third molars
Can adopt any shape. Can fuse at rootline, or have some heavy flexion or distortion. Many tubercles can be present.
Peg shaped max lateral incisors
Crown anomaly - one lobed - similar in shape to mesiodens.
Peg shaped max central incisors
Exactly what it sounds like. Usually no max lateral.
Gemination
Twinning. One crown double in width, one root, on pulp chamber and canal. Looks like 2 (twins), (primary and anteiror). One germ divides or splits (should normally form a single tooth).
Fusion
Two adjacent crowns fuse and appear double in width (two roots, two pulp chambers and canals). Need to differentiate this from gemination. During development, germs fuse.
Sometimes this can happen with supernumerary paramolar fused to a third molar.
Hutchinson’s Incisors
Congenital Syphilis. When a mother has syphilis, child will likely die, but child can survive (unlikely). Certain teeth have a shape to them because of this. Wide at CEJ, have a notch on incisal edge - do not confuse with gemination or twinning. Called screwdriver shape.
Mulberry molars
first molars - have a lot of little tubercles on occlusal surface. Again, a result of syphilis.
Accessory cusps, tubercles and ridges
What this sounds like.
Unusually prominent ridge on facial of max central incisor
Kinda looks like a canine.
Tuberculum intermedium
Third (middle) lingual cusp on mand molars.