For patients who require removal of anterior teeth due to periodontal problems there are a multitude of treatment considerations. Using the natural tooth as a pontic offers the benefits of being the right size, shape and color. This paper describes the immediate replacement of an anterior tooth using a preimpregnated fiber-reinforced composite with the natural tooth as the pontic. The abutment ...

Results: Most of the participants (66,6%) reported that they would replant the avulsed tooth in its socket, and almost half of them (55.5%) gave correct answers regarding the optimum time for which an avulsed tooth should be left out of the mouth prior to replantation. However, most teachers (70, 37%) were not sufficiently familiar with the appropriate method for cleaning a dirty avulsed tooth....

Intercorrelations and communalities are now well known for tooth formation (Garn et al., J Dent Res 39:1049, 1960), crown size of the permanent teeth (Moorees and Reed, Arch Oral Biol 9:685, 1964; Garn et al., J Dent Res 44:350, 1965), the deciduous teeth (Garn et al., JDentRes 56:1214, 1977), and crown size of deciduous teeth during odontogenesis (Garn et al., J Dent Res 58:554, 1979). However...

Teeth morphology has been widely used in taxonomic, biological and fossil teeth studies of Chondrichthyes. Herein, dental abnormalities in Amblyraja doellojuradoi are described. Almost 10% of 182 specimens sampled presented any of these types of dental anomalies: (1) an additional incomplete tooth row between two complete rows, (2) an increasing tooth base size and division of its cusps until t...

The formation of mammalian dentition is one of the most remarkable processes in development and provides a powerful model for studying the epithelialmesenchymal interactions that control patterning and morphogenesis of variety of developmental processes. The tooth development involves a complex series of genetic interactions involving growth factors, transcription factors, signal receptors and ...

Part of the Orthodontics and Orthodontology Commons Recommended Citation Poss, Jordan Lee. "Interarch tooth-size discrepancies in patients with normal occlusions. Fang Qian ii For my amazing wife, Emily, my brilliant son, Jack, and my loving parents, Joyce and Larry. Your contributions to my life are without measure. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank all of those people that helped me c...

Much interest has been expressed in recent years regarding various features common to dentitions with palatally displaced canines (PDC), particularly in relation to delayed dental development and reduced tooth size. The aims of the present study were to determine whether dentitions with buccally displaced canines (BDC) have features in common, which may be specific for the condition, when compa...

Background and aims. Tooth loss may lead to mastication disability, which in turn has important impact on individual's quality of life. Social and psychological factors have been shown to be associated with tooth loss. This study aimed to investigate the social determinants and prevalence of tooth loss, and presence of functional dentition among female heads of household under support of Welfar...

Oligodontia is defined as a congenital tooth agenesis with the absence of six or more permanent teeth. This clinical report describes a patient with non-syndromic partial oligodontia, with retained deciduous teeth and the absence of 16 permanent teeth. Anterior esthetic problems were caused by interarch tooth size discrepancy, interdental space, aberrant tooth dimensions, and the absence of cen...

An 11-year-old female in the late mixed dentition presented to the Department of Orthodontics, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, for treatment of upper and lower crowding. A supernumerary tooth was observed in the upper left first premolar region, but none of the twodimensional radiographs was able to accurately depict the size or anatomy of the tooth (Fig. 1). Because the p...