Clinical Oral structures, Dental Anatomy and root morphology

Question 1

Humans are diphyodonts, what does it mean?

Answer 1

That we have 2 pair of teeth in a lifetime

Question 2

Incisor teeth function

Answer 2

cutting

Question 3

What’s the philtrum

Answer 3

Depression of the skin between the nose and the upper lip

Question 4

Vermillion Border

Answer 4

Transitional area between the lip mucosa and the skin

Question 5

What’s the buccal mucosa

Answer 5

Is the mucosa in the inner cheek, next to the posterior teeth

Question 6

What’s the Parotid papila

Answer 6

Opening in the cheek which carries salive from the parotid gland

Question 7

Alveolar mucosa

Answer 7

The mucosa above (upper arch) or below the gengiva (bottom arch)

Question 8

Mucogingival Line

Answer 8

Line between the Alveolar mucosa and the gingiva

Question 9

Mediam sulcus of the tongue

Answer 9

Midline depression on the dorsum of the tongue

Question 10

Lingual tonsils

Answer 10

Lymphoid tissue on the base of the tongue, posterior do circumvallate papillae

Question 11

Fungiform papillae

Answer 11

Mushroom like papillae located in the anterior third of the dorsum of the tongue

Question 12

Filiform papillae

Answer 12

Hair-like structures located in the middle third of the top of the tongue

Question 13

Circumvallate papillae

Answer 13

Papillae arranged in a V format in the posterior part of the tongue

Question 14

Foliate Papillae

Answer 14

Vertical Ridges on the lateral of the tongue

Question 15

In the Universal Numbering system for teeth what does mean the letter T that follow a number of a tooth?

Answer 15

That the tooth referred is a primary tooth (Deciduous)

Question 16

Marginal Ridge

Answer 16

Is the ridge located in mesial and distal limits/borders of the posterior tooth

Question 17

Groove

Answer 17

Is a linear depression in the occlusal of the tooth (Sulco)

Question 18

Overjet

Answer 18

Horizontal Overlap (If it exceed 3mm, it is excessive)

Question 19

Overbite

Answer 19

Vertical Overlap (If extends until the cervical part of teeth, it is excessive)

Question 20

End-to-end relationships

Answer 20

Mordida topo a topo