Dental Anatomy Terms

Front 1

understanding and memorizing key sections of the primary and permanent tooth timetables

Back 1

chronology

Front 2

process by which the tissues of the developing tooth become hardened by the deposits of calcium salts

Back 2

calcification

Front 3

denotes the precise stage of tooth development as it first appears or emerges through the gingiva

Back 3

emergence

Front 4

the continuous and dynamic movement of the tooth as it develops from its initial calcification stage until it reaches occlusal contact with a tooth in the opposing arch

Back 4

eruption (over time)

Front 5

the process of completed calcification of a tooth, whereby the apical foramen has anatomically closed

Back 5

root completion

Front 6

loss of a tooth from the oral cavity

Back 6

exfoliation

Front 7

center of calcification that contains the developing tooth and odontogenic organ

Back 7

tooth follicle

Front 8

where tooth calcification initially occurs

where it finishes

Back 8

at incisal edge of anterior teeth and cusp tips of posterior teeth

apical third is last

Front 9

for tritubercular and tritubercular molar: the metacone and metaconid are always on the ___ while the paracone and paraconid are on the ______

for quadritubercular the metaconid migrates to the _________

Back 9

distal

mesial

mesiolingual

Front 10

primary cusp triangle consists of these ..and on what teeth

Back 10

mesiofacial cusp, distofacial cusp, and mesiolingual cusp of maxillary molars

Front 11

primitive names for mandibular first molar cusps

Back 11

MF cusp: protoconid
DF cusp: hypoconid
D cusp: hypoconulid
ML cusp: metaconid
DL cusp: entoconid

Front 12

teeth with only one antagonist in the opposing arch

Back 12

maxillary 3rd molars
mandibular central incisors

Front 13

protocone is ____ oriented in the maxillary arch but ________ oriented in mandibular arch

Back 13

lingually

facially

Front 14

not considered a surface on anterior teeth

Back 14

incisal ridge