• Tooth gemination, also known as schizodontia, twinning, or double teeth, occurs when a single tooth germ splits during development. Splitting of the tooth...
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  • permanent teeth. Unlike tooth gemination, tooth fusion is more common in the mandibular incisors. Like tooth gemination, tooth fusion is more common in...
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    anomalies like fusion or gemination. Fusion occurs when two tooth buds fuse together, creating a single, larger tooth. Gemination involves the incomplete...
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    side of the face in cases of hemifacial hyperplasia. Gemination occurs when a developing tooth incompletely splits into the formation of two teeth. Fusion...
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    includes sealants, reshaping, or extraction if necessary. Gemination results from a single tooth attempting to divide. It presents as a bifid crown with...
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    This can be caused by a physical barrier, such as other teeth, or when the tooth is angled away from a vertical position. Completely unerupted wisdom teeth...
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    A dental extraction (also referred to as tooth extraction, exodontia, exodontics, or informally, tooth pulling) is the removal of teeth from the dental...
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    Tooth discoloration is abnormal tooth color, hue or translucency. External discoloration is accumulation of stains on the tooth surface. Internal discoloration...
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    Tooth pathology is any condition of the teeth that can be congenital or acquired. Sometimes a congenital tooth disease is called a tooth abnormality. These...
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    include inflammation of the tissue around the tooth, tooth loss and infection or abscess formation. Tooth regeneration is an ongoing stem cell–based field...
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    Cracked tooth syndrome (CTS) is where a tooth has incompletely cracked but no part of the tooth has yet broken off. Sometimes it is described as a greenstick...
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    Resorption of the root of the tooth, or root resorption, is the progressive loss of dentin and cementum by the action of odontoclasts. Root resorption...
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  • Tooth ankylosis refers to a fusion between a tooth and underlying bony support tissues. In some species, this is a normal process that occurs during the...
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    partially erupted tooth, including the gingiva (gums) and the dental follicle. The soft tissue covering a partially erupted tooth is known as an operculum...
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  • eruption  •  Tooth fusion  •  Tooth gemination  •  Tooth loss  •  Tooth painting  •  Tooth polishing  •  Tooth regeneration  •  Tooth squeeze  •  Tooth Tunes...
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    Tooth wear refers to loss of tooth substance by means other than dental caries. Tooth wear is a very common condition that occurs in approximately 97%...
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    type of tooth wear caused by tooth-to-tooth contact, resulting in loss of tooth tissue, usually starting at the incisal or occlusal surfaces. Tooth wear...
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    Dental fluorosis (category Developmental tooth disorders)
    Dental fluorosis is a common disorder, characterized by hypocalcification of tooth enamel caused by ingestion of excessive fluoride during enamel formation...
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    Meth mouth (category Acquired tooth disorders)
    Meth mouth is a colloquial term used to describe severe tooth decay and tooth loss, as well as tooth fracture, acid erosion, and other oral problems that...
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    Abfraction (category Acquired tooth pathology)
    Abfraction is a theoretical concept explaining a loss of tooth structure not caused by tooth decay (non-carious cervical lesions). It is suggested that...
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  • ࡁࡉ࡚‎ /be/ A dot under a consonant (U+085B ◌࡛ MANDAIC GEMINATION MARK) can be used to note gemination, indicating what native writers call a "hard" pronunciation...
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    lesions. Clinically, a tooth with a pulp stone has normal appearance like any other tooth. The number of pulp stones in a single tooth may vary from 1 to...
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    S
    capital S was used in the Icelandic First Grammatical Treatise to mark gemination. Ʂ ʂ : S with hook, used for writing Mandarin Chinese using the early...
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  • Pulp canal obliteration (category Tooth pathology)
    the tooth is drilled down extensively during dental treatment, e.g. during crown preparation. Signs and symptoms of obliteration include: Yellow tooth discoloration...
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    words: Gemination of h: When an h is made geminate, it becomes Qp [pp]—for example, oQ- (intensifier) + hesowa "to push" → oQpesowa "to push." Gemination of...
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    Concrescence (category Developmental tooth pathology)
    diagnosis and distinguishing concrescence from differential diagnoses of gemination or fusion by observing lack of dentinal confluence between fused teeth...
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    the main cause of tooth loss for adults worldwide. In its more serious form, called periodontitis, the gums can pull away from the tooth, bone can be lost...
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    of a tooth root, most commonly caused by bacterial invasion of the pulp of the tooth. It is a likely outcome of untreated dental caries (tooth decay)...
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    mandible). Classically, this occurs as a postoperative complication of tooth extraction. Alveolar osteitis usually occurs where the blood clot fails...
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  • nasal, e.g. [mm], [nn] = /Nm/, /Nn/. In the case of non-nasal consonants, gemination is mostly restricted by Japanese phonotactics to the voiceless obstruents...
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