In dentistry, notched or peg-shaped teeth typically found in persons with congenital syphilis.
The term applied to the narrowed and notched permanent incisor teeth which occur in congenital syphilis. They are so-named after Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (1828-1913), the London physician who first described them.
Cone-shaped front teeth with notches at their cutting edges, observed in individuals afflicted with hereditary syphilis.