In dentistry what does this mean?

Question

Partially ruptured. my dentist was checking over my mouth and she was doing the usual e,e,e,3,2,1,1,2,3,e,e,e, thing when she said partially ruptured to some of my teeth. can you tell me what this means. Also what does the letters stand for that they say, and the numbers.

but mainly what is partially ruptured

Answer 1

WOW 15 YEARS IN A DENTAL OFFICE AND SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT A PERIODONTAL PROBING SOUNDS LIKE?  Says everything about the variability of dental care in the U.S.

Partially erupted.

Periodontal probing.

313, 323, 333, 314

6 probing depths for each tooth (3 for each side lingual and buccal)

It means hes going to charge a fortune for a deep cleaning?  HA

thee eee things was probably bbb for  (bleeding bleeding, bleeding)

wow people are still charting bleeding like that?  (I'm getting lazy I guess)

Anyway to answer your question we measure the health of the gums around your teeth by the depth of the pocket.  the deeper the pocket the harder it is to keep clean and the more likely it is to get deeper.

So you don't want too many 4s, 5s and greater.  the more high number you have the more likely we are to deep clean.

good luck

Answer 2

I'm sure what you heard was "partially ERupted", meaning

not all the way through the gum.

There are 2 systems that dentists use to identify teeth in the mouth.

One system uses just numbers, and references how many

teeth back from the center a tooth is located.

The more common method uses numbers and letters.  Numbers

identify permanent teeth, while letters refer to baby teeth. There

are 32 total permanent teeth (should you get wisdom teeth).  I have

attached a link that shows how to identify each tooth.

Answer 3

partially ruptured, means one or some of your teeth are part of the way through, most likely to be an adult tooth coming through but not fully through just yet, sometimes they just say Pe which means partially errupted

as for the 123 or abc...

the 12345678 are your adult teeth ,you have 8 on each side top and bottom [32 total]

and the abcde are your baby teeth

it sounds like you have a mixture of baby and adult teeth in there ,