Notebook for dental students (dental anatomy and physiology).

  • Remey, James.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Notebook for dental students (dental anatomy and physiology). Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    ll a general resemblance to the shape of the tooth, but in the developing tooth the apical foramen is larger than in the fully formed] tooth. Upper Lateral Incisors are smaller than the centrals. Distal surface is rather concave. Mesial convex. The median tubercle at neck is more prominent than in the centrals, and so is the bounding ridge; there is often a fissure between the tubercle and ridge. This is a common seat for caries in the laterals, hence w important to the dentist. The shape of the / \ root and pulp cavity is similar to the centrals. Lower centrals, are smaller than the upper, and also smaller than the laterals; the distal angles are only slightly rounded off, differing from the upper. The roots are much com- pressed laterally with an attempt at bifurca- tion. Lower laterals differ little from the centrals except they are larger in all their dimensions, and the distal angle of the crown is rounded off considerably. Upper Canines.—Labial surface convex both ways ; on this surface there is a well-marked longitudinal ridge, which divides the tooth