Week 4 Vocab

Question 1

Congenital absence of teeth

Answer 1

Anodontia

Question 2

Tooth forcibly detached from its normal point of insertion either trauma or surgery

Answer 2

Avulsed

Question 3

Are the first set of teeth in the growth development

Answer 3

Deciduous

Question 4

Teeth enter the mouth and become visible

Answer 4

Eruption

Question 5

Replacement of primary teeth, when permanent teeth appear in mouth, resulting in mixed dentition

Answer 5

Exfoliation

Question 6

Joining together of the dentin and enamel of two or more separating teeth

Answer 6

Fusion

Question 7

Complete removal of vital pulp from a tooth

Answer 7

Pulpectomy

Question 8

Removal of coronal portion of a vital pulp from a tooth

Answer 8

Pulpotomy

Question 9

Permanent teeth that replace deciduous teeth.

Answer 9

Succedaneous

Question 10

Any teeth in excess of the 32 permanent teeth

Answer 10

Supernumerary