DHT II FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Anodontia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅absence of ALL primary or permanent teeth
Hypodontia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅congenitally missing one or several teeth
Hyperdontia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅teeth that appear in addition to the regular number of teeth
Mesiodens - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅an extra tooth between your maxillary central incisors
Macrodontia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅teeth are larger than normal in comparison to other teeth
Microdontia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅teeth are smaller than normal
Gemination - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅two crowns of one tooth developed from one bud
Fusion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the union of two buds joined at the enamel of one crown
Concrescence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅where the cementum overlying the roots of at least two
teeth join together from two buds
Twinning - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅two separate teeth that arose from the complete separation of
one tooth bud
Dilaceration - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅an angulation, or a sharp bend or curve, in the root of a
formed tooth
Taurodontism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅in the molars where the body and pulp chamber of the
tooth is enlarged vertically at the expense of the roots; very little/no furcation in root; pulp big and
chunky; large root canal; shortened root
Anodontia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅absence of ALL primary or permanent teeth
Hypodontia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅congenitally missing one or several teeth
Hyperdontia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅teeth that appear in addition to the regular number of teeth
Mesiodens - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅an extra tooth between your maxillary central incisors
Macrodontia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅teeth are larger than normal in comparison to other teeth
Microdontia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅teeth are smaller than normal
Gemination - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅two crowns of one tooth developed from one bud
Fusion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the union of two buds joined at the enamel of one crown
Concrescence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅where the cementum overlying the roots of at least two
teeth join together from two buds
Twinning - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅two separate teeth that arose from the complete separation of
one tooth bud
Dilaceration - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅an angulation, or a sharp bend or curve, in the root of a
formed tooth
Taurodontism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅in the molars where the body and pulp chamber of the
tooth is enlarged vertically at the expense of the roots; very little/no furcation in root; pulp big and
chunky; large root canal; shortened root