Archive for January, 2008

January 31st, 2008

Identifying Your Teeth

Posted by Administrator in notation

Identifying your teeth is not taught in school. However there are ways to know them when we are writing them down.
The upper right central incisor (usually called the upper right one) will be written as in the UK (Palmer method) [...]


January 31st, 2008

Dental Veneers 101

Posted by editor in Dental Health

by mheo soriano

What are Dental Veneers?
Dental veneers, or sometimes called tooth veneers are bonded onto the teeth so to create a cosmetic improvement for teeth that are discolored, worn, chipped, or misaligned. There are two most commonly used materials in the manufacturing of dental veneers; composite resin and porcelain.
Porcelain veneers and composite veneers can [...]


January 27th, 2008

Tooth Numbering for Children

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In children, the Palmer Notation System uses uppercase letters instead of numbers.  Following the same order as for adult’s teeth, children’s 20 primary teeth are lettered “A” through “E” in each quadrant.  The same symbol is used to identify the quadrants. In the original system, children’s 20 primary teeth are numbered in the same order, [...]


January 25th, 2008

What’s up with Dental Notation?

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Literally, your teeth may gather around that will make your smile less likely. This phenomenon is called crowding of teeth.
In such case, your adult teeth may seem to have no room for each other to occupy thus creating an unlikely appearance and arrangement. In this manner, a tooth shall be removed, and further orthodontic treatment [...]


January 21st, 2008

Palmer Notation for a Normal Adult Full Set of Teeth

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It was originally termed the Zsigmondy system after the Austrian dentist Adolf Zsigmondy who developed the idea in 1861, using a Zsigmondy cross to record quadrants of tooth positions. One of the advantages of Palmer notation is that it can produce a very graphical image, akin to a ‘map’ of the dentition; tooth transpositions or [...]


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