DEN 110 FINAL QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Which of the papilla on the tongue are the largest and how many are there? - Answers
-Circumvallate, 8-12
Which papilla detect sweet and salt tastes? - Answers -Fungiform
What is the fleshly elevation in the tissue called that is located at the base of the lingual
frenum? - Answers -Sublingual Caruncle
A space that exists between adjacent teeth is a ________. - Answers -Diastema
Which papilla of the tongue is the most numerous but detects no taste? - Answers -
Filiform
What is the space balled between the front teeth and lips? - Answers -Labial vestibule
What is the deepest part of the buccal vestibule called? - Answers -Mucobuccal fold
What is the tissue called that surrounds and supports the teeth? - Answers -Gingiva
What is the indention located between the upper lip and the nose called? - Answers -
Philtrum
What is the elevated line of tissue that runs down the midline of the hard palate? -
Answers -Median Palatine Raphe
What is the name of the frenum that attaches the tongue to the floor of the mouth? -
Answers -Lingual Frenum
What are the elevations on the floor of the mouth that run horizontally outward from the
Sublingual Caruncle? - Answers -Sublingual Folds
What is the name of the salivary duct that exists from the Sublingual Caruncle? -
Answers -Wharton's Duct
What is the bony area located just posterior to the maxillary 3rd molars? - Answers -
Maxillary tuberosity
Name the 3 types of tonsils found within the oral cavity? - Answers -Palatine,
Pharyngeal, Lingual
Name the 3 divisions of the pharynx? - Answers -Nasopharynx, Oropharynx,
Laryngopharynx
,What is the structure called that seals off the opening to the larynx when you swallow
food or liquid? - Answers -Epiglottis
What is the pad of tissue located just posterior to the mandibular 3rd molars? -
Answers -Retromolar pad
What is another word for a salivary gland stone? - Answers -Sialoith
What is the mound of enamel located on the crown of the tooth that makes up a major
part of its occlusal or incisal surface called? - Answers -cusps
The line that separate the lobes are called what? - Answers -development grooves
Rounded areas of enamel that separates the occlucal surface from the mesial or distal
surface are called what? - Answers -marginal ridges
What is the point at which the lower and upper lips meet at the corner of the mouth? -
Answers -Labial Commissure
What is the bulge of tissue called located just posterior to the upper central incisors? -
Answers -Incisive Papilla
What is the name of the elevated wrinkles in the tissue located on either side of the
anterior hard palate called? - Answers -Palatal Rugae
What would call an overgrowth in the thickness of the bone on the cheek side or lip side
of the upper of lower jaw? - Answers -Exostosis
What is the difference between a proximal contact and an occlusal contact? - Answers
-Proximal contact- contact between adjacent teeth located within the same dental arch
Occlucal contact- contact between teeth in the opposing arch when you bite
Where is the height of contour of all facial surfaces? - Answers -Gingival or Cervical 1/3
Where is the height of contour of the linguals of anterior teeth? - Answers -Gingival or
Cervical 1/3
Where is the lingual height of contour of all posterior teeth? - Answers -Middle 1/3
Which tooth has its mesial proximal contact in the incisal third and its distal proximal
contact in the middle third? - Answers -Maxillary and mandibular canines
On which surface does the CEJ curve more toward the incisal or occlusal surface, the
mesial and distal? By how much normally? - Answers -Mesial, by about 1mm normally
, Which tooth has the longer root, the maxillary or the mandibular canine? - Answers -
Maxillary
Which tooth has the narrower crown in a mesial distal direction, the maxillary or the
mandibular canine? - Answers -mandibular
Which tooth may have a bifurcated root, the maxillary or mandibular canine? - Answers
-mandibular
Which tooth has the most pronounced cingulum, lingual cusp ridge, and lingual fossa,
the mandibular or maxillary canine? - Answers -maxillary
Which tooth is the longest overall, the maxillary or mandibular canine? - Answers -The
total length of the maxillary and mandibular canine are about the same
Rounded areas of enamel that separates the occlucal surface from the mesial or distal
surface are called what? - Answers -marginal ridges
Where is the facial and lingual height of contour for all anterior teeth? - Answers -
Gingival or cervical 1/3
The CEJ curves toward the incisal more on the distal or the mesial surface of the teeth?
- Answers -the mesial surface
The apex of a root generally points towards the mesial or distal surface? - Answers -
distal
The mesial or the distal surface of a tooth is generally longer? - Answers -mesial
Proximal contact of all anterior teeth are located in which third? - Answers -Incisial 1/3
except for the distal proximal contacts on the canine are located in the middle 1/3
Which, of all premolars, will most often have 2 roots? - Answers -Maxillary 1st premolar
(#5,12)
Which premolar may have a Y, U, or H shaped occlusal surface? - Answers -
Mandibular 2nd (#20,29)
Which premolar has a small lingual cusp and a mesiolingual groove? - Answers -
mandibular 1st
Which premolars have a facial cusp that is tipped towards the lingual surface? -
Answers -mandibular premolars
Which of the papilla on the tongue are the largest and how many are there? - Answers
-Circumvallate, 8-12
Which papilla detect sweet and salt tastes? - Answers -Fungiform
What is the fleshly elevation in the tissue called that is located at the base of the lingual
frenum? - Answers -Sublingual Caruncle
A space that exists between adjacent teeth is a ________. - Answers -Diastema
Which papilla of the tongue is the most numerous but detects no taste? - Answers -
Filiform
What is the space balled between the front teeth and lips? - Answers -Labial vestibule
What is the deepest part of the buccal vestibule called? - Answers -Mucobuccal fold
What is the tissue called that surrounds and supports the teeth? - Answers -Gingiva
What is the indention located between the upper lip and the nose called? - Answers -
Philtrum
What is the elevated line of tissue that runs down the midline of the hard palate? -
Answers -Median Palatine Raphe
What is the name of the frenum that attaches the tongue to the floor of the mouth? -
Answers -Lingual Frenum
What are the elevations on the floor of the mouth that run horizontally outward from the
Sublingual Caruncle? - Answers -Sublingual Folds
What is the name of the salivary duct that exists from the Sublingual Caruncle? -
Answers -Wharton's Duct
What is the bony area located just posterior to the maxillary 3rd molars? - Answers -
Maxillary tuberosity
Name the 3 types of tonsils found within the oral cavity? - Answers -Palatine,
Pharyngeal, Lingual
Name the 3 divisions of the pharynx? - Answers -Nasopharynx, Oropharynx,
Laryngopharynx
,What is the structure called that seals off the opening to the larynx when you swallow
food or liquid? - Answers -Epiglottis
What is the pad of tissue located just posterior to the mandibular 3rd molars? -
Answers -Retromolar pad
What is another word for a salivary gland stone? - Answers -Sialoith
What is the mound of enamel located on the crown of the tooth that makes up a major
part of its occlusal or incisal surface called? - Answers -cusps
The line that separate the lobes are called what? - Answers -development grooves
Rounded areas of enamel that separates the occlucal surface from the mesial or distal
surface are called what? - Answers -marginal ridges
What is the point at which the lower and upper lips meet at the corner of the mouth? -
Answers -Labial Commissure
What is the bulge of tissue called located just posterior to the upper central incisors? -
Answers -Incisive Papilla
What is the name of the elevated wrinkles in the tissue located on either side of the
anterior hard palate called? - Answers -Palatal Rugae
What would call an overgrowth in the thickness of the bone on the cheek side or lip side
of the upper of lower jaw? - Answers -Exostosis
What is the difference between a proximal contact and an occlusal contact? - Answers
-Proximal contact- contact between adjacent teeth located within the same dental arch
Occlucal contact- contact between teeth in the opposing arch when you bite
Where is the height of contour of all facial surfaces? - Answers -Gingival or Cervical 1/3
Where is the height of contour of the linguals of anterior teeth? - Answers -Gingival or
Cervical 1/3
Where is the lingual height of contour of all posterior teeth? - Answers -Middle 1/3
Which tooth has its mesial proximal contact in the incisal third and its distal proximal
contact in the middle third? - Answers -Maxillary and mandibular canines
On which surface does the CEJ curve more toward the incisal or occlusal surface, the
mesial and distal? By how much normally? - Answers -Mesial, by about 1mm normally
, Which tooth has the longer root, the maxillary or the mandibular canine? - Answers -
Maxillary
Which tooth has the narrower crown in a mesial distal direction, the maxillary or the
mandibular canine? - Answers -mandibular
Which tooth may have a bifurcated root, the maxillary or mandibular canine? - Answers
-mandibular
Which tooth has the most pronounced cingulum, lingual cusp ridge, and lingual fossa,
the mandibular or maxillary canine? - Answers -maxillary
Which tooth is the longest overall, the maxillary or mandibular canine? - Answers -The
total length of the maxillary and mandibular canine are about the same
Rounded areas of enamel that separates the occlucal surface from the mesial or distal
surface are called what? - Answers -marginal ridges
Where is the facial and lingual height of contour for all anterior teeth? - Answers -
Gingival or cervical 1/3
The CEJ curves toward the incisal more on the distal or the mesial surface of the teeth?
- Answers -the mesial surface
The apex of a root generally points towards the mesial or distal surface? - Answers -
distal
The mesial or the distal surface of a tooth is generally longer? - Answers -mesial
Proximal contact of all anterior teeth are located in which third? - Answers -Incisial 1/3
except for the distal proximal contacts on the canine are located in the middle 1/3
Which, of all premolars, will most often have 2 roots? - Answers -Maxillary 1st premolar
(#5,12)
Which premolar may have a Y, U, or H shaped occlusal surface? - Answers -
Mandibular 2nd (#20,29)
Which premolar has a small lingual cusp and a mesiolingual groove? - Answers -
mandibular 1st
Which premolars have a facial cusp that is tipped towards the lingual surface? -
Answers -mandibular premolars
