Dental Vocabulary

What surfaces of the tooth are located towards the tongue?

• buccal

• lingual

• facial

• incisal

Baby or primary teeth are called

• deciduous

• final

• adult

• kids

surface of the tooth toward the midline

• middle

• mesial

• middle third

• lingual

toward the back

• anterior

• posterior

• occlusal

• primary

The set of 32 secondary teeth

• dentition

• deciduos

• permanent

• primary

Which part of the tooth is the hardest?

• Dentin

• Pulp

• Enamel

• Cementum

What is the outer layer of the crown called?

• Dentin

• Enamel

• Gingiva

• Pulp

The second hardest tooth tissue that lies underneath the outer layer of the tooth.

• pulp

• cementum

• dentine

• enamel

What are the four front middle teeth called?

• incisors

• premolars

• molars

• canines

What are the two teeth just lateral to the four front middle teeth called?

• incisors

• premolars

• molars

• canines