The phrase "absent teeth" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing dental health, conditions, or descriptions of someone's smile or appearance.
Example: "The patient presented with absent teeth in the upper jaw, indicating a need for further dental evaluation."
Alternatives: "missing teeth" or "tooth loss".
Congenitally absent teeth can be divided into three categories based on the number of missing teeth: hypodontia, oligodontia, and anodontia.
About 5% of the population might have more than three missing teeth [89] or about 5.5% might have four and about 1.5% might have five absent teeth [86].
For example, two studies which mistook CMT with hypodontia, showed only one subject with more than six absent teeth [4] or even not more than six missing teeth [77].
There can be about 6%and5.4%4% prevalence of patients with four and five teeth missing, respectively in Japanese [3], about 7% prevalence for four missing teeth in Brazil [88], 7% prevalence of more than five missing teeth in Turkey [91], or 16% of more than five absent teeth in Germany [105].
Dysodonta: Absent teeth and ligaments joins the valves.
Considering absent teeth at baseline, the SDA group had more absent teeth in the upper jaw but fewer absent teeth in the lower jaw compared to the SDA plus RDP group.
A limiting obstacle is the difficulty to accurately distinguish the absent tooth from adjacent similar teeth [102].
Differences in the patterns of hypodontia have been seen, with those having mutations of MSX1 showing particularly congenitally absent anterior teeth and those with PAX9 mutations hypodontia predominantly of posterior teeth.
Four are my absent wisdom teeth.
Replacement of absent posterior teeth by free-end RDP cannot be recommended.
In summary, it can be stated that replacement of absent posterior teeth by a free-end RDP in a shortened dental arch is not recommendable; fixed appliances (cantilever (resin-bonded) FDP or implant supported FDP) might be preferable alternatives.
