Dental Anatomy
Dent 201
Summer semester
2005/2006
Deciduous dentition
Set traits
● Smaller in size
● Smaller crown height/tooth length ratio
● Greater crown width/height ratio
Set traits
● More bulging B & L cervical ridges
Constricted cervix
● Buccal cervical ridges on deciduous
molars
Occlusal aspect: constricted occlusal table
Deciduous dentition
❧ Set traits
● Molar roots
• More slender & relatively longer
• More bowed & flared outward
• Shorter root trunk
● Milk-white in color
● Enamel is thinner & pulp chamber is large
Some class, arch & type traits in permanent
dentition are applied to deciduous dentition
Only new traits will be discussed
Deciduous incisors
❧ Eruption
● Mandibular before maxillary incisors
● Central before lateral incisors
❧ No mamelons, labial grooves or lobes
Maxillary Central incisor
❧ The only incisor with MD breadth >
crown height
❧ M & esp. D profiles overhang root
profiles
❧ No labial grooves, depressions or
lobes
❧ Cingulum
● Bulging & more incisally located
● May extend further toward the incisal
edge – lingual ridge
● Unmarked by pits or grooves
❧ MRs are clearly evident
Maxillary Central incisor