Dental Anatomy Quiz

Indicate whether the statement is true or false. Primary teeth have tight contacts.

• True

• False

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. The shallow depressions found on tooth surfaces are the

• fossae

• lingual grooves

• buccal grooves

• cingula

Indicate whether the statement is true or false. The canines and premolars work together to help form sounds.

• True

• False

The convex area on the lingual surfaces of the anterior teeth is the

• cingulum

• lingual groove

• buccal groove

• lingual fossa

Which premolar has two roots?

• Mandibular second

• Mandibular first

• Maxillary first

• Maxillary second

The anterior teeth are from

• canine to canine

• maxillary to mandibular

• lateral incisors to lateral incisors

• first premolar to first premolar

Indicate whether the statement is true or false. There are two mandibular quadrants.

• True

• False

Which tooth appears to have four equally sized cusps?

• Mandibular first premolar

• Mandibular first molar

• Mandibular second molar

• Mandibular second premolar

Indicate whether the statement is true or false. On the mandibular canine, the mesial cusp ridge is longer than the distal cusp ridge.

• True

• False

The tooth that contains the cusp of Carabelli is the

• none of the above

• maxillary third molar

• mandibular first molar

• maxillary first molar