Anatom3DLower second secondary premolar tooth
Dens premolaris secundus inferior · Dolní druhý stálý třenový zub
Skeleton
Looks like
The permanent tooth fifth from the middle in the lower jaw, just in front of the first molar, usually with one root.
What it does
Crushes food and bridges the canine and molars.
Keeping it well
It is the permanent tooth most often missing from birth; a retained milk molar may then stay for years.
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Bad breath (halitosis)
- Burning mouth syndrome
- Dental abscess
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Hand, foot and mouth disease
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Impacted wisdom teeth
- Lichen planus
- Mouth ulcers (aphthous stomatitis)
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Pemphigus vulgaris
- Sarcoma
- Stevens–Johnson syndrome / toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Teeth grinding (bruxism)
- Tooth decay & gum disease
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency