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Dates
Evidence of calcification: 3-4 months
Enamel formation:
4-5 years
Eruption:
6-7 years
Root Formation:
9 years
Defining features
- Smallest tooth in the mouth
- Bilaterally symmetrical
- Distal incisal edge is slightly more rounded that mesio incisal
- Disto labial line angle is more rounded that mesio labial
no. of roots: 1
Evidence of calcification:
Enamel formation:
Eruption:
Root completed:
3-4 months
4-5 years
7-8 years
10 years
Defining features
- Are wider (M-D) and longer than centrals
- Have more prominent features on the lingual surface
- Have greater labial curvature
- Mesial side is longer than distal when viewed from labial
- Labial aspect shows a more rounded appearance mesially and
distally
- On the lingual aspect, ridges are more developed and fossa
apparent (more prominent than the centrals).
- Incisally, more rounded appearance than the central
Root aspect
- Straight root
- Oval in cross section
- Wider (M-D), thicker (L-L) and longer from apex to incisal
edge.
- Proximal grooves are commonly found
- Apex may point towards the labial or distal
No. of roots = 1
1 cusp, 4 developmental lobes
Dates
Evidence of calcification:
Enamel formation:
Eruption:
Root completion:
4-5 months
6-7 years
9-10 years
12-14 years
Defining features
- Narrower and smoother crown than maxillary
Labial aspect
- Straighter mesial outline than the maxillary
Lingual aspect
- Lingual surface is flatter than maxillary canine and features
less prominent
- Larger cingulum and lingual ridge than other anterior teeth
Proximal aspect
- Cusp tip more lingually inclined than the maxillary
- Developmental depression (Mesial) more pronounced.
- Distal end of incisal edge points more toward lingual
Root
- Wide labiolingually, narrow mesiodistally
- Mainly single rooted
Dates
Evidence of calcification:
Enamel formation:
Eruption:
Root completion:
1.75-2 years
5-6 years
10-12 years
12-13 years
Defining features
- Buccal cusp is a lot higher than the lingual cusp.
- Mesial cusp ridge is shorter than distal cusp ridge
(differentiates between left and right)
Proximal aspect
- Distal marginal ridge is more developed and unbroken, there
is a mesiolingual developmental groove (differentiates left and
right)
Occlusal aspect
- Only premolars (Max and man) that may have a transverse
ridge that does not cross an occlusal developmental groove
Dates
Evidence of calcification:
Enamel formation:
Eruption:
Root completed:
2.25-2.5 years
6-7 years
11-12 years
13-14 years
Defining features
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Dates
Evidence of calcification:
Enamel formation:
Eruption:
Root completed:
birth
2.5-3 years
6-7 years
9-10 years
Defining features
Largest teeth in the mandibular arch, formed from 5 lobes
- 1-4 form 4 major cusps and 5th forms minor cusp
- Usually 3 buccal and 2 lingual cusps (left from right)
- Mesiolingual cusp is highest and widest
- Crown is broad MD, wider mesially than distally (position)
- MB developmental groove separates MB cusp from DB cusp, splits
into buccal groove at its terminal end. Developmental grooves
separate lobes.
- DB developmental groove separates DB from D cusp
- Lingual developmental groove separates the ML cusp from the DL
cusp.
- 3 major fossae. Mesial, central, distal
Dates
Evidence of calcification:
Enamel formation:
Eruption:
Root completed:
2.5-3 years
7-8 years
11-13 years
14-16 years
Defining features
- Shorter occlusocervically than 6s
- Narrower mesiodistally than 6s
- 4 cusps but has more variety of form than 6s
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