Tooth Charting Symbols Flashcards

Tooth Charting Symbols and Definitions

• Impacted or unerupted: Indicated by a red circle encompassing the entire tooth, including the root.
• Amalgam: Surfaces involved are outlined with areas colored red for needed work and blue for completed restorations.
• Porcelain fused to Metal (PFM): Outline the coronal portion with diagonal lines for gold, or use abbreviations for different metals in red and blue.
• Sealant: Mark the occlusal surface with an "S" in red for ongoing work and blue for completed cases.
• Gold: Crown outlined, with diagonal lines drawn in red for uncompleted and blue for completed restorations.
• Implant: Draw horizontal lines through the root(s) in red for uncompleted and blue for finished implants.
• Bonded veneer: Outline only the facial aspect of the tooth in red for work needed and blue for already completed restorations.
• Fractured tooth: A red zigzag line indicates the location of the fracture on the tooth or root.
• Drifting: A red arrow shows the direction of tooth drifting.
• Full Crown: Outline in red if it's a porcelain crown and use diagonal lines for a gold crown, distinguishing between completed (blue) and ongoing work (red).
• Fixed Bridge: Draw an "X" through the roots of missing teeth and connect them with a line; use red and blue as appropriate based on the material (porcelain or gold).
• Diastema: Represented by two vertical red lines indicating the space between two teeth with no contact.
• Rotated tooth: Red arrows indicate the direction of rotation of a tooth.
• Post and Core: Draw a line through the root and extend it into the crown’s gingival third, forming a triangle shape colored red for ongoing work and blue for completed.
• Periapical abscess: Indicate infection by drawing a red circle at the apex of the root.
• Root Canal: Draw a line through the center of each involved root, using red for pending procedures and blue for completed root canals.
• Missing Tooth: Represented by a blue "X" drawn through the tooth.
• To be extracted: A red diagonal line signifies extraction; an alternate representation can be two red parallel lines drawn through the tooth.
• Recurrent Decay: Outline existing restorations in red to indicate decay in that area.
• Stainless Steel Crown: Outline the crown and mark "SS" on the occlusal surface in red for pending work or blue for completed.
• Composite: Outline surfaces involved with red for needed work and blue for completed surfaces.