Dental anomalies Flashcards
What dental anomaly is associated with number of teeth?
Hypodontia
What is the most tooth affected by hypodontina? and what are the two teeth least likely to be affected by hypodontia?
- 3rd molars
- FPM and upper centrals
List 5 conditions that are associated with hypodontia?
- Ectodermal dysplasia
- Down syndrome
- Cleft palate
- Hurler’s syndrome
- Incontinentia pigmentii
What tooth can over-erupt and cause restorative problems when upper lateral incisors are missing?
Lower canines
4 problems associated with hypodontia?
- Deep overbite
- Reduced lower face height
- Spacing
- Submergence
4 tx options for hypodontia?
- Overdenture
- Partial dentures
- Porcelain veneers
- Fixed prosthesis
- Implants
What disease have a higher frequency of supernumeraries?
Cleidocranial dysplasia
What are the 4 types of supernumerary teeth?
- Conical - cone shaped
- Tuberculate - barrel shaped
- Supplemental - additional normal morphology
- Odontome - irregular mass of dental hard tissue , can be compound or complex
What is the most common cause of delayed eruption of permanent incisor teeth?
Supernumerary teeth
7 anomalies of size and shape?
- Microdontia - peg shaped laterals
- Macrodontia
- Double teeth - gemination or fusion
- Odontomes
- Taurodontism - flame shaped pulp
- Accessory cusps - talon cusp
- Dilaceration of root or crown
What is this?
Peg shaped lateral incisor
What is this?
Talon cusp
What is this?
Dens in dente
What is this?
Double tooth
4 anomalies of root structure?
- Short root anomaly
- Radiotherapy
- Dentine dysplasias
- Accessory roots
3 anomalies of enamel structure?
- Amelogenesis imperfecta
- Environmental enamel hypoplasia
- Localied enamel hypoplasia
4 types of amelogenesis imperfecta?
- Hypoplastic
- Hypocalcified
- Hypomaturational
- Mixed with taurodontism
How would you describe enamel in this picture?
Hypomineralised
4 causes of environmental enamel hypoplasia?
- Systemic
- Nutritional
- Metabolic - liver disease + Rhesus incompatibility
- Infections such as measles
2 causes of localised enamel hypoplasia?
- Trauma
- Infection to primary tooth - caries then abscess
two generalised hard tissue defect due to environmental causes?
- MIH
- Fluorosis
3 tx options for Fluorosis?
- using microabrasion
- veneers
- Vital bleaching