Triangles: 5.1M
Vertices: 2.6M
More model informationThis tooth was scanned using microCT (Bruker, Belgium) and a 3D model was created in CTAn (Bruker, Belgium). The resulting .stl file was cleaned and smoothed using Meshlab (2016.12). The model is of a dilacerated permanent central maxillary incisor. Dilaceration occurs when a developing tooth suffers trauma, and the (at the time) soft tissue structure that will become the root is displaced by the trauma. The displaced developing root continues to grow, but at a displaced angle, after the injury. In the model, you can see some areas of hypomineralisation on the facial aspect of the crown of the tooth, and you can see that root development is not yet complete (the apical foramen is quite wide).
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