Skeletal system
Upper lateral incisor
Dens incisivus lateralis superioris
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Head
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Anterior teeth
DescriptionUnreviewed
Incisors (from Latin incidere, "to cut") are the front teeth present in most mammals.
They are located in the premaxilla above and on the mandible below.
Humans have a total of eight (two on each side, top and bottom).
Opossums have 18, whereas armadillos have none.
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Names
- Latin
- Dens incisivus lateralis superioris
- English
- Upper lateral incisor
- French
- Dent incisive supérolatérale
- Spanish
- Diente incisivo superolateral
- Portuguese
- Incisivo lateral superior