Part of the tooth that is covered with cementum and connects the tooth to the surronding tissue.

1. Incisors

2. Canines

3. Pre-molars

4. Molars

Have crowns with relatively straight edges, which are well designed to cut through foods.

There are 8

Known also as cuspids (one cusp) and eye teeth

There are 4 

have an incisal edge or cusp that is convex meaning that it bulges awat from the root.

The overall crown and root length of canines make them the longest teeth in the adult's mouth

the long root gives it stability

Canine teeth have a major influence on a person's facial apperance

Both have incisal edges 

the canine has a peircing edge

the incisor has a cutting edge

both are wedge shaped in apperance from a side view of their crowns

There are 8 pre-molars

They are called pre-molars b/c they come before the molars

Sometimes called bi-cuspid due to them having two cusps.

Bi-cuspid isnt very accurate b/c most pre-molars can have two or three cuspids

Have larger masticating surfaces then the incisors and canines.

Facilitate the crushing and grinding of foods. 

Have similar characteristics 

Pre-Molar cusps resemble the cusps on the canine teeth. 

they have similarities, but they differ in the amount of cusps, their form, and arrangement.

Premolars have smaller mastication surfaces, and more pointed cusps, which concentrate the forces exerted on foods. 

the teeth that belong in the upper arch 

also called the upper teeth

there are 16 maxillary teeth

The teeth that are supported by the upper arch (maxilla) 

They account for half of the number of teeth

known as upper set of teeth 

the lower jaw

the set of teeth attached to the mandible make up the mandibular arch

moveable jaw used for chewing

Incisors and Canines 

Have masticating surfaces called incisal edges

Pre-Molars and Molars

occlusal surface (grind together when the mouth is closed)

masticating surfaces are occlusal

Occlusal 

the grinding and chewing surfaces of maxillary and mandibular posterior teeth come into contact when the mouth is closed.

Molars and pre-molars have occulsal surfaces

The midline or median line of the dental arches

Equally divides the maxillary and mandibular arches, falling between the central incisors

Each quadrant has an equal set of 8 teeth 

there are 4 quadrants

The right and left quadrants are in refrence to the patients right or left, not in refrence to viewers right or left

Primary (decidious)

or 

Primary dentition

Means falling away and refers to the fact that when their functions have been fulfilled they will fall away.

A complete set of primary dentition consists of only 20 teeth, so each arch only contains 10 teeth

There are 6 less teeth in an arch of primary dentition than in the same arch of the permanent dentition.

The teeth that do not succeed primary teeth in each quadrant. (molars)

Come up in there own space.