Tooth gemination, also known as schizodontia, twinning, or double teeth, occurs when a single tooth germ splits during development. Splitting of the tooth...

permanent teeth. Unlike tooth gemination, tooth fusion is more common in the mandibular incisors. Like tooth gemination, tooth fusion is more common in...

side of the face in cases of hemifacial hyperplasia. Gemination occurs when a developing tooth incompletely splits into the formation of two teeth. Fusion...

anomalies like fusion or gemination. Fusion occurs when two tooth buds fuse together, creating a single, larger tooth. Gemination involves the incomplete...

includes sealants, reshaping, or extraction if necessary. Gemination results from a single tooth attempting to divide. It presents as a bifid crown with...

A dental extraction (also referred to as tooth extraction, exodontia, exodontics, or informally, tooth pulling) is the removal of teeth from the dental...

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...

include inflammation of the tissue around the tooth, tooth loss and infection or abscess formation. Tooth regeneration is an ongoing stem cell–based field...

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...

Tooth discoloration is abnormal tooth color, hue or translucency. External discoloration is accumulation of stains on the tooth surface. Internal discoloration...

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...

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...

partially erupted tooth, including the gingiva (gums) and the dental follicle. The soft tissue covering a partially erupted tooth is known as an operculum...

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%...

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...

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...

Abfraction is a theoretical concept explaining a loss of tooth structure not caused by tooth decay (non-carious cervical lesions). It is suggested that...

Dental fluorosis is a common disorder, characterized by hypocalcification of tooth enamel caused by ingestion of excessive fluoride during enamel formation...

eruption  •  Tooth fusion  •  Tooth gemination  •  Tooth loss  •  Tooth painting  •  Tooth polishing  •  Tooth regeneration  •  Tooth squeeze  •  Tooth Tunes...

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...

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...

the tooth is drilled down extensively during dental treatment, e.g. during crown preparation. Signs and symptoms of obliteration include: Yellow tooth discoloration...

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...

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...

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...

anterior tooth, located on the inside surface of the affected tooth. Sometimes it can also be found on the facial surface of the anterior tooth. The term...

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...

mandible). Classically, this occurs as a postoperative complication of tooth extraction. Alveolar osteitis usually occurs where the blood clot fails...

diagnosis and distinguishing concrescence from differential diagnoses of gemination or fusion by observing lack of dentinal confluence between fused teeth...

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)...