Canines

Question 1

What is the shape of the canine crowns from the facial aspect?

Answer 1

Pentagon Shaped

Question 2

From the facial view, which are shorter the mesial ridge or the distal ridge?

Answer 2

Mesial ridges are shorter

Question 3

In which dimensions are the canine crowns bigger?

Answer 3

Faciolingually wider

Question 4

Canine crown outlines are more convex on what aspect?

Answer 4

Distal aspect

Question 5

Canine crown outline that are more flat are on what aspect?

Answer 5

Mesial aspect

Question 6

Mesial contact areas are located in what aspect of the crown?

Answer 6

Incisal 1/3 of the crown and distal contacts are located more cervically

Question 7

The root of a canine tapers from the cervical line toward the apex from facial toward the

Answer 7

Lingual

Question 8

Canine roots are wider in what dimension

Answer 8

Wider faciolingually than mesiodistally

Question 9

When bent, roots more often bend toward which direction?

Answer 9

Distal

Question 10

Are roots longer than crown?

Answer 10

Roots are considerably longer than crown.

Question 11

Mesial and distal marginal ridge converge toward what?

Answer 11

Toward the cingulum

Question 12

Cervical lines on the facial and lingual surfaces make what kind of curve toward the apex?

Answer 12

Form a convex curve

Question 13

Proximal cervical lines make what kind of curve toward the incisal. Which proximal side has a more pronounced curve?

Answer 13

Form a convex curve toward the incisal.

Mesial side has a more pronounced convex curve than the distal surface.

Question 14

What is the shape made by canine when viewed from the proximal?

Answer 14

Wedge-shape

Question 15

Facial and lingual crests of curvature are located where?

Answer 15

Located in the cervical 1/3

Question 16

Lingual canine outlines are “s” shaped with a [blank] lingual fossa and [blank] cingulum.

Answer 16

concave lingual fossa

convex cingulum

Question 17

From the incisal view, facial outlines form what kind of curve compared to lingual outline?

Answer 17

form a less convex (broader) curve

Question 18

When comparing the mesiodistal dimension of the maxillary canine to the mandibular canine, which is bigger?

Answer 18

Maxillary canine is a bigger in mesiodistal dimension.

Question 19

This type of tooth has mesial crown contours convex to flat cervically.

Answer 19

Maxillary canine

Question 20

This type of tooth has its mesial crown contours more in line with contour of the root.

Answer 20

Mandibular canine

Question 21

What is the angle of the cusp slopes for maxillary canines?

Answer 21

105 degrees

Question 22

What is angle of the cusp slopes for mandibular canines?

Answer 22

120 degrees

Question 23

Which tooth has lingual ridges with mesial and distal fossae that are less prominent?

Answer 23

Mandibular canine

Question 24

Which type of canine has large centered mesiodistal cingulum?

Answer 24

Maxillary canine

Question 25

Which canine has slightly distal cingulum?

Answer 25

Mandibular canine

Question 26

Which tooth has incisal ridges that are straighter mesiodistally?

Answer 26

Maxillary canine

Question 27

On which tooth does the distal cusp ridge bends distolingually from the incisal view?

Answer 27

Mandibular canine

Question 28

Which tooth has the distal half of its crown noticeably compressed faciolingually?

Answer 28

Maxillary canine

Question 29

Where is cusp tip located for a maxillary canine in relation to the root axis line?

Answer 29

labial to the root axis line

Question 30

Where is the cusp tip located for a mandibular canine in relation to the root axis line?

Answer 30

Lingual to the root axis line

Question 31

Which canine has the longest root in permanent dentition?

Answer 31

Maxillary Canine

Question 32

Which canine has the longest crown?

Answer 32

Mandibular canine

Question 33

Which canine is the longest tooth?

Answer 33

maxillary canine

Question 34

Which canine is the second longest tooth in the dentition?

Answer 34

Mandibular canine

Question 35

which canine has the 2nd longest root?

Answer 35

Mandibular canine

Question 36

Which tooth looks like a fish because its facial surface is continuous with root?

Answer 36

Mandibular canine Maxillary canine has three facial planes

Question 37

Which is the only tooth with root inclined mesially?

Answer 37

Mandibular canine

Question 38

Which is the only anterior teeth most likely to have a bifurcated root?

Answer 38

Mandibular canine