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Carabelli trait

An accessory cusp or groove on the mesiolingual surface of the maxillary first molar (and sometimes the second molar). It ranges from a faint groove (grade 1) to a prominent free cusp (grade 7) on the ASUDAS scale. More common in European and Middle Eastern populations than in East Asian or Indigenous American groups.

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