Dental notation

Dental professionals, in writing or speech, use several different dental notation systems for associating information with a specific tooth. The three most common systems are the FDI World Dental Federation notation (ISO 3950), the Universal Numbering System, and the Palmer notation. The FDI notation is used worldwide, and the Universal is used widely in the United States. The FDI notation can be easily adapted to computerized charting.

This article is about human tooth numbering. For the general mammalian dental formula, see dentition. For names of tooth surfaces, see Glossary of dentistry.

Another system is used by paleoanthropologists.

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