TOPIC: BASICS OF DENTAL ANATOMY 📌 KEY POINTS: A Tooth is defined as “One of the hard tissues that are positioned on the jaws and help in holding and mastication of food, also as weapons of offense and defense in lower animals.” 💠 Human dentitions are divided into many classes of teeth based on the […]
PERIODONTAL LIGAMENT VIVA VOCE, MCQs & QUESTION AND ANSWERS 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Intermediate plexus (Sicher 1966): Fibers arising from cementum and bone are joined in the mid region of periodontal ligament space giving rise to a zone of distinct appearance in the light microscope. 🔹It was believed that the intermediate plexus provides a site […]
TOPIC: ANATOMICAL LANDMARKS OF MANDIBULAR ARCH 📌 LIMITING STRUCTURES Labial frenum Labial vestibule Buccal vestibule Buccal frenum Lingual frenum Alveololingual sulcus Retromolar pads Pterygomandibular raphe 📌 PRIMARY STRESS-BEARING AREA Buccal shelf area Residual alveolar ridge 📌 RELIEF AREA Mental foramen Genial tubercles
TOPIC: ANATOMICAL LANDMARKS OF MAXILLARY ARCH 📌 LIMITING STRUCTURES OR PERIPHERAL STRUCTURES: Labial frenum Labial vestibule Buccal frenum Buccal vestibule Hamular notch Posterior palatal seal Fovea palatinae 📌 SUPPORTING STRUCTURES ✳️Primary stress-bearing area Hard palate Posterior lateral slopes of the residual alveolar ridge ✳️Secondary stress-bearing area Rugae ✳️Relief area Incisive papilla Midpalatine raphe
QUICK VIVA QUESTIONS Q1. Define matrixing.Ans. ‘Matrixing’ is the procedure by which a temporary wall is created opposite to axial walls and surrounding areas of the tooth structure that were lost during the preparation. Q2. Define matrix.Ans. ‘Matrix’ is a device used to contour a restoration by providing a temporary wall to simulate that of […]
TOPIC: HEALTH EDUCATION 📌 BRIEF NOTES: 🔹Health education is a process that informs, motivates, and helps people adopt and maintain healthy practices and lifestyles. It advocates environmental changes as needed to facilitate this goal and conducts professional training and research to the same end.(NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PREVENTIVE MEDICINE IN USA) 📍DEFINITION OF HEALTH: Health is […]
SHORT NOTES FOR ORTHODONTICS 1. The term orthodontics is coined by Le Foulon 2. The pioneer in the treatment of cleft palate and related problems, Norman Kingsley
TYPICAL RADIOLOGICAL APPEARANCE CONTD. 🔺Brush in winter appearance: Normal sialographic appearance of submandibular gland 🔺Savage like appearance: Sialographic appearance of Sialographic 🔺Snow storm appearance: Sialographic appearance of sjogren’s syndrome 🔺Sialectasis: Sialographic appearance of Sialodenitis 🔺Ball in hand appearance: Sialographic appearance of intrinsic benign tumors 🔺Balloon like appearance: Follicular cyst
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