Crown Escape

The crown escape referred to in dentistry an angle between the axis of the tooth crown and root axis . Together with the angle feature , the root feature and the curvature feature, it belongs to the tooth features and enables the assignment of a tooth to the upper or lower jaw.

The crown alignment is particularly pronounced in the posterior region of the lower jaw, where the crowns "escape" lingually (towards the tongue). In the posterior region of the upper jaw, the crowns only "tilt" slightly towards the buccal (towards the cheek). Due to the alignment of the crown, the force that has to be applied to chop the food is adapted to the physiological conditions of the temporomandibular joint, as this is the only way to achieve an efficient grinding movement. Neglecting the alignment of the crown in the event of extensive changes to the chewing surfaces of several or all of the teeth can therefore also lead to temporomandibular joint problems.

The Wilson curve is formed with the alignment of the crown of the teeth .

See also

• Tooth axis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Gehring, Joachim Barth: Anatomy: special biology of the masticatory system . Verlag Neuer Merkur GmbH, 1992, ISBN 978-3-921280-84-3 , p. 176 ( google.com ).

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