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PA EFDA Boards Questions and
Answers (100% Pass)
Function of Anterior Teeth.
✓ Tear/Incise Food
Function of Posterior Teeth.
✓ Grind Food
Portion of the tooth that extends from the Incisal or occlusal surface to the
CEJ..
✓ Anatomical Crown.
Also referred to as the cervical line ..
Appears as a slight constriction that encircles the tooth...
✓ CEJ ( Cementoenmael Junction)
The Visible Portion of the Anatomical Crown.
✓ Clinical crown
Area Where the Root Divides.
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✓ Furcation.
The actual division into 2 OR more roots..
✓ Furrow
Same Arch Touches Or Meets...
✓ Contact Area.
Contact Area
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Two Purposes..
✓ 1) Food Trap (Prevent)
2) Stabilize Dental Arches.
What can eliminate a contact area?
✓ Tooth Movement.
Loss of Teeth.
Poorly contoured Restorations.
Good Contact
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✓ Stabilizes the teeth to prevent drifting or tipping and protect soft
tissues.
No Contact
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✓ Food Impaction resulting in tissue damage and Plaque Build Up.
Continuous with the inter-proximal space between the teeth..
✓ Embrasures.
Covers the anatomical Crown of the Tooth and Varies in Thickness in Different
Area's of the tooth...
✓ Enamel.
Enamel is thicker at ..
✓ The Incisal and Occulusal Surface.
Hardest tissue in the body and is very brittle...
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✓ Enamel.
What color is enamel?
✓ Yellowish white to grayish white, but also depends on the underlying
dentin.
Enamel is composed of rods (prisms) that are formed as cells called..
✓ Ameloblasts.
The bulk of the tooth is made up of ..
✓ Dentin.
2nd hardest material in the body...
✓ Dentin.
The hard connective tissue lying just inside the enamel and cementum..
✓ Dentin.
Normally yellowish white and darker than enamel and slowly darkens with
age..
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