Three Tooth Notation System

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“THE CLINICAL APPLICABILITY OF THREE TOOTH NOTATION SYSTEMS IN PRIMARY TEETH”

Background/ Introduction: Different regions in the world use different tooth notations according to their convenience and comfort. Also, two students belonging to the same college use different tooth notation systems which might lead to confusion and end in dental gaffe when using referral letters. To avoid this, apart from FDI system, in the recent times, Havale’s alphanumeric system and MICAP notation (Molar Incisor Canine Akram Premolar) were introduced as two novel systems.
Aim and Objectives: To assess the universal clinical applicability of three tooth notation systems in primary teeth among the first year undergraduate dental students.
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In Great Britain, most practitioners use the Palmer notation, while the universal numbering system is used in United States. The FDI two-digit system is used in many other countries.1 Though many follow the FDI system as standard in their daily dental practice, there is no universal usage or a mandatory …show more content…

These notation systems are based on alphabets and numbers and give different notations to a particular tooth. For example, maxillary left lateral incisor is denoted by ‘22’ in FDI system and ‘10’ in Universal System. Considering a referral note of palmer system, upper right first molar is ‘6’ and the same number can be decoded as upper right canine when universal system is employed.
A new tooth notation system was proposed recently and according to this, letters I-incisor, C-canine, P-premolar, M-molar (MICAP) represent the four tooth classes and tooth types of each class are marked by digits (1, 2, 3) which are written as superscript and subscript on relevant letters (I,C,P,M) to represent the upper and lower teeth.2
Also, another novel alphanumeric system was introduced by Havale R in 2015 for primary teeth.3 In this system, as the dentists in the world have been accustomed for decades to use quadrant 1 through 4, the same quadrant coding is used instead of 5 through 8 as in the FDI system. The letters ‘a’ through ‘e’ are used in this system to represent the tooth

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