Canines Flashcards
longest tooth in the mouth
Maxillary Canine
Longest crown in the mouth
Mandibular canine
Canine:
mesial contact is more ____
Incisal
Canine:
Height of contour on both lingual and facial is located where?
Cervical 3rd
Canine:
Crown tapers toward the:
Cervix of the tooth
Canine:
CEJ curves more ____ on the mesial than the distal
Incisally
Canine:
Crown in less bulky on the ____
Lingual
Canine:
Roots are more narrow on the ____ than then ___
Narrow MD
Wider FL
Same for crow
Canine:
Root often bends ___
Distally
Maxillary canines have wear facets on the ____
Lingual
Mandibular canines have wear faces on the ____
Labial
Canine:
The ___ and ____ cusp ridges going to form a cusp
Mesial and Distal
On both Max and Man canines the ____ cusp ridges is shorter.
Mesial cusp ridge
Canine:
The ___ surface is prominently convex
Labial surface= convex= curve inwards
Only teeth with labial ridges
Canine
Canine:
More convex (rounder) ___ contact on middle 3rd of crown
+ a slight ____ outline cervical to this contact
CONVEX DISTAL CONTACT
+Slight concave (above) outline
Canines
Both are wider ____ than ___
Wider FL than MD
Relieves the premolars and molars from horizontal forces while chewing.
Canine Guidence
Best anchor teeth class?
Canine
How many lobes does a canine have?
4 lobes; 3 facial 1 lingual
What arch of canines has a more pronouced labial ridge?
Maxillary canine
What arch of canines has a more pronouced labial ridge?
Maxillary canine
What arch of canine has more flat/less pronouced lingual anatomy?
Mandibular
What arch of canine has more pronounced lingual ridge?
Often with Mesial & distal fossa
Maxillary
What side of the root of a canine is wider?
Facial
Which canines have root deprssions?
Which surface has a deeper root depression?
All canines have both mesial and distal root depression.
**Distal DEEPER **
Canines
Which interproximal contact is more cervical?
distal
Canines
Crown is more convex on which side?
Distal (more round)
Canines
Roots longer than what?
Crowns!!
Which arch of canines has more contour on the mesial and distal?
Maxillary! Chonkers. Distal is more convext
Which canine crown is bigger overall max or mand?
Maxillary CHONKER!
Maxillary or mandibular canine?
Mesial cusp ridge is more vertically sloped
Maxillary
Maxillary or mandibular canine?
Mesial cusp ridge is more horizontal
Mandibular canine
Maxillary or mandibular canine?
crown appears bent more distally relative to the root
Mandibular
b/c of horiziontal mesial cusp ridge
Canines
Whihc tooth has more blunt obtuse cusp?
Mandibular
Maxillary or mandibular canine?
Contact area are overall more incisal
Mandibular canines
Maxillary or mandibular canine?
Distal contact in middle 3rd
Maxillary canines
The crown lenghth of a *maxillary canines *is similr to length of what tooth?
Max central inciors
The crown lenghth of ** mandibular canines ** is MUCH longer han length of
mandibular central incisors.
Which canine roots are more likely to bend distally at the apex?
Maxillary canines
Which canine root has more blunt apex?
Mandibular canines
WHich arch of canines has a more prominent cingulum? Big boy.
Maxillary
WHat arch of canines has a more Centered cingulum with mid tooth axis?
Maxillary canines
Which arch of canine has the cingulum more distal to mid tooth axis?
Mandibular canines
What canine are may have a distal lingual twist and why?
Mandibular canines; their cingulum is distal to axis
Distal half of labial surface of ____ crown is more prominently concave
maxillary canine
What is the shape of the maxillary & mandibular canine outline? From a proximal view
Triangles
Which canine appears thicker faciolingually?
Maxillary. BIG BOY
From the proximal view, where is the location of the maxillary canines’ cusp tips?
More facial
Where is the location of the cusp tips of the mandibular canines?
More lingual
WHERE IS THE LOCATION OF THE FACIAL AND LINGUAL CONTOURS?
Both max and man have it on cervical 3rd
Canines
slight little contours on what arch?
Mandibular canines
CEJ on the ____ canines may appear to curve even More on MD becuase of narrow FD demension
Mandibular
what arch can have birfuction?
Mandibular
Max or Man canine?
The cingulum is centered mesiodistally.
Max Canines
Canines
There is an almost continuous crown–root outline on the mesial surface of this tooth.
Mandibular canines
What class of teeth?
The mesial contact area is located more incisally than is the distal contact area on the same tooth.
Incisors & canines
The cusp tip is positioned lingual to the mid-root axis line from the proximal view.
Mandibular canines
On which tooth is the cusp angle most acute?
Maxillary Canines
On Canines
On max and madibular canines what side is the vertical root depression is more pronounced?
Distal more depressed (even more on mandibular!)
Maxillar canines can have this rare feature?
Unusual Incisal Ridge Notching
