Tooth Anatomy Overview Quiz

What is the living soft tissue that occupies the pulp cavity of a vital tooth?

Which part of the tooth is normally covered by enamel?

What does the cementoenamel junction separate?

Which division of the tooth surface could be divided horizontally or vertically into thirds?

What are line angles used for in the description of a tooth?

What do point angles aid in describing?

What is the layer of hard, bonelike tissue that covers the dentin of the anatomical root of a tooth?

What is the amount of tooth visible in the oral cavity known as?

Which junction separates the cementum lining the anatomical root from the dentin of the root?

What does gingival recession refer to?

What does clinical root refer to?

How many line angles are there for posterior teeth?

What is the hard, mineralized tissue that covers the dentin of the anatomical crown of a tooth?

Which portion of the alveolar process is into which the roots are set?

How many calcified tissues make up the tooth?

What is the hard tissue that surrounds the pulp cavity and is covered by enamel in the anatomical crown?

Which teeth have multiple roots?

What is the undivided portion of the root trunk crown called?

Which tissue constitutes the main bulk of the tooth and surrounds the pulp cavity?

What divides the root portion into two roots for maxillary first premolar and mandibular molars?

What is the portion of the alveolar process into which the teeth are set called?

Which teeth have trifurcation dividing their root portion into three roots?

Which tissue covers the dentin in the anatomical root?