Orthodontist Assistant Test Practice 50
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Orthodontics - ANSWER ✔ - Specialty that serves patients for Functional and Esthetic reasons
Open bay - ANSWER ✔ - Orthodontic offices designed are what type
Normal occlusion - ANSWER ✔ - Maxillary anterior teeth overlap the incisal edge of the mandibular
anterior teeth by 2mm, maxillary posterior teeth are one cusp buccal to the mandibular posterior teeth,
and the mandibular teeth are in maximum contact with the maxillary teeth
Angle system - ANSWER ✔ - Common method of classifying the different types of occlusion is
Torsoversion - ANSWER ✔ - Tooth is rotated or turned
Supraversion - ANSWER ✔ - tooth extends above the normal line of occlusion
Transversion - ANSWER ✔ - Wrong order in the arch
Crossbite - ANSWER ✔ - Malposition where maxillary posterior teeth are positioned lingually to the
mandibular teeth
Open bite - ANSWER ✔ - Failure of maxillary and the mandibular to occlude
Overjet - ANSWER ✔ - Abnormal horizontal distance between the labial surface of the mandibular anterior
teeth and the lingual surface of maxillary teeth
Overbite - ANSWER ✔ - vertical overlap is greater than normal