Question 402 · LDEK · Non-carious lesions of dental hard tissues
Which of the following statements concerning enamel hypoplasia is true?
- A. it is a qualitative disorder of enamel.
- B. hypoplastic lesions develop due to the fact that enamel matrix is defective.
- C. usually, the lesions are located unilaterally, just as other developmental disorders of enamel.
- D. the thickness of enamel within hypoplastic lesions is usually normal.
- E. hypoplastic enamel lesions are always white.
Hint
Hypoplasia is a quantitative defect — consider which stage of amelogenesis, matrix secretion or maturation, is disturbed.
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