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Angle's Classification
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System developed by Dr. Edward H. Angle to describe and classify occlusion and maloclussion
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Anterior
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Towards the from
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Apical Third
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Division of the root nearest the tip of the root
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Buccal Surface
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Tooth surface closest to the inner cheek
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Buccolingual Division
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Lengthwise division of the crown in a labial or buccolingual direction
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Centric Occlusion
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Maximum contact between the occluding surfaces of the maxillary and mandibular teeth
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Concave
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Curved inward
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Contact Area
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Area of the mesial or distal surface of a tooth that touches the adjacent tooth in the same arch
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Convex
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Curved outward
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Curve of Spee
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Curvature formed by the maxillary and mandibular arches in occlusion
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Curve of Wilson
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Cross-arch curvature of the occlusion plane
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Deciduous
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Pertaining to first dentition of 20 teeth; baby teeth or primary teeth
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Dentition
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Natural teeth in the dental arch
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Distal Surface
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Surface of the tooth distant from the midline
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Distoclusion
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A class II malocculsion in which the mesiobuccal cusp of the maxillary first molor occludes mesial to the mesiobuccal groove of the mandibular first molar
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