The Personality of Front Teeth
One of the most basic and valuable subjects necessary for dental professionals is dental anatomy. A fundamental component of dental anatomy is tooth morphology. There are many well known dental anatomy textbooks that tackle the complex topic of tooth form. In many cases these textbooks use artist’s renderings of teeth. They assign average measurements in an attempt to create a standard tooth shape for each tooth in the mouth. Artist or computer renderings of tooth shapes give basic information but don’t fully convey the rich diversity of sizes, shapes, colors, and textures. In order to quantify this diversity I have sorted, cleaned, photographed, and measured 600 extracted maxillary incisors; 200 centrals, laterals, and cuspids. I have compiled my data in an article that has been submitted for publication. If and when this gets accepted, I will post the full article.
