Chapter 2 Flashcards
When do the crowns of deciduous teeth develop?
~14th week gestation through 12 months of age
When do crowns of permanent dentition develop?
~6months to 15 years
What is the term for teeth that have enamel defects seen in the permanent teeth caused by periapical inflammation of the overlying deciduous tooth?
Turner’s hypoplasia
When is the critical period for children developing dental fluorosis?
2nd and 3rd year of life.
Congenital syphilis can cause what type of odontogenic malformations?
Hutchinson’s incisors. The teeth will have a straight-edge screwdriver shape and the molars will be “mulberry molars.”
What is the triad of congenital syphilis?
Hutchinson teeth, interstitial keratitis, and 8th nerve deafness.
How would you ID these teeth?
Hutchinson Incisors
How would you ID these teeth?
Mulberry Molars
What is attrition?
Wear of teeth due to tooth to tooth contact.
What is abrasion?
Wear of teeth due to pathologic wearing IE tooth brush.
What is demastication?
Wear of teeth due to attrition and abrasion. IE chewing tobacco.
What is erosion?
Wear of teeth due to a nonbacterial chemical process.
What is perimolysis?
Wear of teeth due to gastric secretions.
What is the term when teeth are fused by cementum?
Concrescence.
What is anodontia?
Lack of tooth development.
What is hypodontia?
Lack of one or more teeth.
What is oligodontia?
Lack of 6+ teeth.
List the most common teeth affect by hypodontia.
3rd molars, 2nd premolars, lateral incisors.
What is a paramolar?
Devloping 4th molar.
What is a mesiodens?
Supernumerary tooth inbetween maxillary incisors.
What is it called when two teeth switch position during eruption?
Transposition.
What are the most commonly impacted teeth?
Mand. 3rd molars, Max. 3rd molars, and Max. canine.
What is gemination?
Single enlarged tooth. Looks like it is splitting into two. Tooth count will be normal when it is counted as one tooth.