Canines

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Maxillary Canine

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Mandibular Canine

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Measurements

Height of Contour

Root Depressions

Crown Shapes

Eruption and Calcification

Quiz Time!

Test your knowledge of this chapter by completing the following questions

  • 1. A patient presents to your office with anterior crowding. Which of the 4 permanent teeth would be the last one to consider removing for orthodontic treatment?

  • 2. Which of the 4 lobes that coalesce to form permanent canines is the most pronounced?

  • 3. At what age do the permanent canines begin to calcify?

  • 4. What is the reason why the permanent canines are the last teeth to consider removing for orthodontic treatment?

  • 5. How many pulp horns do the permanent canines have?

  • 6. Which of the following permanent teeth would you expect to have root/canal bifurcations?

  • 7. Is the lingual ridge possessed by permanent canines a triangular ridge?

  • 8. Which is the longer buccal cusp slope for permanent canine teeth?

  • 9. Where does the largest anterior embrasure occur?

  • 10. From a proximal view, what shape do the permanent canines possess?

  • 11. Which of the following teeth possess a distal height of contour located in the “middle of the middle third”?

  • 12. Which of the following permanent teeth has the longest root?

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References

Nelson. (2009). Wheeler’s Dental Anatomy, Physiology and Occlusion (9th ed.). Elsevier.
Scheid, Weiss, G., & Woelfel, J. B. (2012). Woelfel’s dental anatomy (8th ed.). Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.