INTERNATIONAL DENTAL CHARTS

Helping dentists to decode dental charts

MISSING TOOTH                               SYMBOL

 

AB (tooth absent) - UK

Dente ausente - Brazil

Dent manqué - France

Diente faltante ó ausente - Chile

f (fehlender zahn) -Germany

J (tooth is missing post mortem or the clinical crown of the tooth is not present for examination. Also used for avulsed tooth. The rooth or an open socket is present, but not other information is available) - WinID3 system

M  - Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates

Mam (missing ante mortem) - UK

Mis - Australia, UK, Thailand, Turkey

MT - Japan

X(tooth is missing/extracted) 

- WinID3 system

Zab brakujacy - Poland

Zub extrahiran - Croatia

ελλείπων δόντι - Greece

缺失牙- China

 

 

MISSING TOOTH -

OTHER ABBREVIATIONS

 

B (N) – permanent tooth is missing and deciduous tooth (B) is present and unrestored (N) - Canada

fp (fehlenderzahn,

postmortal)- Germany

Translation: missing tooth postmortem

Y (tooth lost post-mortem) - Norway 

Z (part of jaw lost post-mortem) - Norway 

 

  

         (Indonesia, Saudi Arabia)

 

 cross a horizontal line on missing teeth in the odontogram 

(Australia, Barbados, British Army, Colombia, Finland, Jordan, Malaysia, UK)

 

drawn a square around the missing tooth (Canada)

  

(Croatia)

 

√’ on the tooth 

(Colombia)

#

(Greece)

          

Missing AM        Missing PM (Indonesia)

 

X or =
Missing tooth or pontic
(ADA) 
Missing tooth with a
retained root tip (RT) 
(Canada) 

                   

                

                

             (Martinez et al, 2011) 

EDENTULOUS ARCH (EXTRA INFORMATION)

Make crossing lines, each running from the uppermost aspect of one third molar to the lowermost aspect of the third molar on the opposite side.

(The U.S. Navy, 1999) 

EDENTULOUS MOUTH (EXTRA INFORMATION)

Inscribe crossing lines, one extending from the maxillary right third molar to the mandibular left third molar and the other line from the maxillary left third molar to the mandibular right third molar 

(The U.S. Navy, 1999) 

Inscribe crossing
lines (fig. 2-8) one extending from the maxillary right
third molar to the mandibular left third molar and the
other line from the maxillary left third molar to the
mandibular right third molar.
Inscribe crossing
lines (fig. 2-8) one extending from the maxillary right
third molar to the mandibular left third molar and the
other line from the maxillary left third molar to the
mandibular right third molar.
lines (fig. 2-8) one extending from the maxillary right
third molar to the mandibular left third molar and the
other line from the maxillary left third molar to the(The U S Navy, 1999)