Question 11 · LDEK · Crowding and dental anomalies
Ectopia is defined as:
- A. teeth displacement beyond the oral cavity.
- B. location of a tooth bud outside of the alveolar bone.
- C. teeth malposition in the alveolar bone.
- D. teeth transposition.
- E. retraction of an upper tooth above and a lower tooth below the occlusal plane.
Hint
The term refers to where the tooth germ develops, not to how an erupted tooth is aligned in the arch.
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