Exam questionKROK 2Dentistry ยท 2019
A 47-year-old man has lost his lower left premolars. After that the teeth at the edges of the defect have been gradually sliding inside the defect. At the same time the antagonist teeth started to protrude toward the edentulous segment of the alveolar bone. In the medical literature, such clinical presentation is called:
Answer options
- Kourliandski phenomenon
- Castaigne syndrome
- Popov-Godon phenomenon
- Papillon-Lefevre syndrome
- Phenomenon of relative tooth-alveolar lengthening
Correct answer
Popov-Godon phenomenon
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