(1) It has been postulated that mesial temporal sclerosis may be related to a complicated delivery, febrile convulsions during childhood, and status epilepticus.(2) The persistence occurs most often with the upper canine and the lower second molar, and less often with the upper lateral and lower mesial incisors.(3) The tooth plates measure 16 cm from the mesial tip to the distal end.(4) This may be due in part to the fact that the most common pathologic finding of temporal lobe resections involve hippocampal or mesial temporal sclerosis and neoplasia.(5) The teeth are only slightly worn; the dentine is exposed on one mesial cusp on the first right and left permanent molars.(6) The most common type is mesial impaction, which means teeth that have grown at an angle facing towards the front of the mouth.(7) The findings suggest that damage to the right mesial prefrontal cortex causes abnormal hoarding behavior by releasing the primitive hoarding urge from its normal restraints.(8) By rolling the labial margins toward the midline, the mesial end of the upper dentition can be narrowed without bringing the plates out of line.(9) Branches of the cingulum curve around outside the trigon on its mesial and distal sides.(10) Surgery is most commonly performed for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, frontal lobe epilepsy, and epilepsy secondary to a lesion.(11) The molars tend to interlock with their mesial and distal neighbors in ways which become more elaborate and precise in later forms.(12) The commonest pathology in chronic temporal lobe epilepsy is mesial temporal sclerosis with scarring of the hippocampus.(13) In lingual view, the mesial surface of the protocone merges gradually with the anterior cingulum.(14) Damage to this area - the right mesial prefrontal cortex - apparently causes the near-universal interest in collecting to escalate out of control by releasing the primitive hoarding urge from its normal restraints.(15) The mesial and distal surfaces are worn to produce a beveled pattern, which contrasts sharply with the flattened and generally bilobed dentition of pampatheres.(16) Posteriorly, the mesial lamina of the splenial is firmly sutured onto the anterior end of the prearticular.
