Anatom3DUpper lateral secondary incisor tooth
Dens incisivus lateralis superior · Horní stálý postranní řezák
Skeleton
Looks like
The smaller front tooth second from the midline in the upper jaw, beside the central incisor.
What it does
Cuts food with the central incisors and fills out the smile.
Keeping it well
Quite often small, peg-shaped or missing from birth; bonding, implants or bridges can replace it.
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