random dental anatomy question

[alt650]

Hi everyone,
I'm a design student working on a dental project and I was wondering if there were any books that give dimensions of the mouth/teeth from child to adult? I'm trying to better understand how people's mouth's differ in size and what size constraints there are. Ideally I'd like to find the dental version of henry dreyfuss' measure of a man and woman book (pictured below). Thanks in advance for your help!

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[Jenna2010]

You will probably get more help if you post this in the Dental forum.

Good luck with your project.

 

[SeattleRDH]

Search for books on 'Tooth Morphology'. If you want to compare baby teeth with adult teeth search 'primary dentition' vs. 'permanent dentition.'

If you are comparing children of a certain age with adults keep in mind that:

1) most kids have all their baby teeth by 2 1/2 years old
2) the first adult teeth start coming in around 5 1/2 years old
3) most kids have all of their adult teeth (with the exception of wisdom teeth) by 12 years old

So if you're comparing an 8 year old with an adult then direct comparison of tooth size is a challenge since the child will have mixed dentition.

Check out the ADA website for an eruption chart: http://www.ada.org/2930.aspx?currentTab=1

 

[alt650]

Thanks Jenna, will do

SeattleRDH, that's a great lead. I'll start digging around with that in mind.