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Starting on the upper right back (wisdom tooth) that is number one, then tooth in front is number two, and going all the way around, the last molar in the back left is number 16, then drop down to bottom left in very back, (wisdom tooth) is 17, then come around to front, then very back right side (wisdom tooth) is 32. The upper right central would be tooth number 8,then just next to it 9. (Your two front teeth) hope this helps I was an RDA and one of the worlds smartest Endodontist/periodontists' assistant in the 70s and 80's. Dr. SANFORD S. GOLDEN DDS He was a teaching professor at CASE WESTERN RESERVE in the late fifties. He invented the contour chair and sold it's patent to the RITTER COMPANY in the fifties. I miss him. : o (
there are 4 quardrants of the mouth, 1, 2 , 3, 4. The upper right corner is 1, the upper left is 2, bottom left is 3, and the bottom right is 4. so in quadrant one, the first tooth is 11(one one), then 12(one two), then 13(one three) etc this goes to 18(one eight). 11 starts from the front tooth. then you go to quad 2, 21(two one), 22(two two) etc for each quarant.
Dentists number teeth by using the canine system, which is 1-32. You start counting in the back left, all the way to the back right, that is seventeen. To count the rest you start from the bottom left, all the way to the bottom right, and that gives you 32.
Tooth number one is the wisdom tooth in the back of your upper jaw on the right side. They then count across the upper jaw from right to left, ending with the wisdom tooth on the upper left which is number 16.
Then the numbering starts with the wisdom tooth on the left side of the lower jaw directly below number 16. That is number 17. They then count across the lower jaw from left to right, ending with the wisdom tooth on the lower right, which is number 32 and is directly below number 1.
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