Anatom3DUpper central secondary incisor tooth
Dens incisivus medialis superior · Horní stálý střední řezák
Skeleton
Looks like
The large, broad front tooth either side of the midline in the upper jaw.
What it does
Bites off food, shapes the smile and helps pronounce sounds like f and v.
Keeping it well
The tooth most often knocked out. Put a knocked-out tooth back or into milk and see a dentist within an hour.
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