Tooth Eruption
Question 1. Define eruption and shedding.
Answer:
- Eruption was used to denote the tooth’s emergence through the gingiva.
- Then, it becomes more completely defined to mean continuous tooth movement from the dental bud to occlusal contact.
Shedding:
- The physiologic process resulting in the elimination of the deciduous dentition is called shedding or exfoliation.
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Question 2. Dental anomalies.
Answer:
- Dental anomalies results when disturbances in the form, color, arrangement, and structure of the teeth might have occurred.
Teeth affected:
- Third molars, maxillary lateral incisors, mandibular second premolars.
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Results:
- Restorative problems in peg-shaped laterals
- Spaces problems – in mandibular second premolars with two lingual cusps.
- Quantitative defects of enamel thickness in enamel hypoplasia.
- Qualitative defects in hypo calcification.
- Cleft lip and palate.
- Screwdriver-shaped central incisor and mulberry molars – in congenital syphilis.
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Question 3. Chronology of permanent dentition
Answer:
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