Function of Anterior Teeth. Correct Answer: Tear/Incise Food
Function of Posterior Teeth. Correct Answer: Grind Food
Portion of the tooth that extends from the Incisal or occlusal surface to the CEJ.. Correct Ans
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Function of Anterior Teeth. Correct Answer: Tear/Incise Food
Function of Posterior Teeth. Correct Answer: Grind Food
Portion of the tooth that extends from the Incisal or occlusal surface to the CEJ.. Correct Answer: Anatomical Crown.
Also referred to as the cervical line ..
Appears as a slight constriction that encircles the tooth... Correct Answer: CEJ ( Cementoenmael Junction)
The Visible Portion of the Anatomical Crown. Correct Answer: Clinical crown
Area Where the Root Divides. Correct Answer: Furcation.
The actual division into 2 OR more roots.. Correct Answer: Furrow
Same Arch Touches Or Meets... Correct Answer: Contact Area.
Contact Area
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Two Purposes.. Correct Answer: 1) Food Trap (Prevent)
2) Stabilize Dental Arches.
What can eliminate a contact area? Correct Answer: Tooth Movement.
Loss of Teeth.
Poorly contoured Restorations.
Good Contact
= Correct Answer: Stabilizes the teeth to prevent drifting or tipping and protect soft tissues.
No Contact
= Correct Answer: Food Impaction resulting in tissue damage and Plaque Build Up.
Continuous with the inter-proximal space between the teeth.. Correct Answer: Embrasures.
Covers the anatomical Crown of the Tooth and Varies in Thickness in Different Area's of the tooth... Correct Answer: Enamel.
Enamel is thicker at .. Correct Answer: The Incisal and Occulusal Surface.
Hardest tissue in the body and is very brittle... Correct Answer: Enamel.
What color is enamel? Correct Answer: Yellowish white to grayish white, but also depends on the underlying dentin.
Enamel is composed of rods (prisms) that are formed as cells called.. Correct Answer: Ameloblasts.
The bulk of the tooth is made up of .. Correct Answer: Dentin.
2nd hardest material in the body... Correct Answer: Dentin.
The hard connective tissue lying just inside the enamel and cementum.. Correct Answer: Dentin.
Normally yellowish white and darker than enamel and slowly darkens with age.. Correct Answer: Dentin.
Dentin is distinguished by enamel by.. Correct Answer: Dentin = Dull flat appearance.
Enamel= translucent and shiny.
With Explorer (when scratched)
Dentin =
Enamel= Correct Answer: Dentin = Dull Sound.
Enamel= High Pitch.
Formed by cells called odontoblasts and develops with the pulp from dental papilla of the tooth bud... Correct Answer: Dentin.
3 Major Types of Dentin... Correct Answer: 1)Primary.
2) Secondary.
3) Reparative.
Produced before the tooth erupts and shortly after eruption... Correct Answer: Primary Dentin.
A continuation of primary dentin that forms at a slower rate as the tooth ages and throughout the life of a tooth.. Correct Answer: Secondary Dentin.
_____________ OR tertiary dentin forms rapidly when tooth has received an excessive stimulus from caries, cavity preparation , OR other trama... Correct Answer: Reparative.
A Defense reaction to an area of injury.. Correct Answer: Reparative Dentin.
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