Carabelli tubercle
The Tuberculum Carabelli (also Carabelli cusp , Latin diminutive of tuber 'cusp', 'bump') is an accessory (additional) cusp on the mesio-palatal cusp of the first upper molar ( six-year molar ) of the permanent teeth, more rarely also on the deciduous molars . It is named after Georg Carabelli , a Viennese dentist and pioneer of dentistry . The Carabelli tubercle can be detected in about 30% of all first upper molars in varying degrees, less often on the second upper molars. It is a standard variant without any disease value . The presence of a Carabelli hump may be more common in people with congenital syphilis . Therefore, the discovery of such surplus bumps is taken into account in paleopathological examinations and can provide clues about the incidence of syphilis in the past. Sometimes there is a superstition that people with such a hump are particularly intelligent .
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- ^ Jochen Fanghänel, Franz Pera, Friedrich Anderhuber, Robert Nitsch: Waldeyer - Anatomie des Menschen . Walter de Gruyter, January 1, 2003, ISBN 978-3-11-022104-6 , p. 298.