Restoration: Any material or devise used to replace lost tooth structure (filling, crown) or to replace a lost tooth or teeth or holds teeth in a fixed position until the bone solidifies around them. Retainer: A removable dental appliance, usually used in Orthodontics, that maintains space between teeth or holds teeth in a fixed position until the bone solidifies around them.
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Prosthetic teeth are attached to the part of the implant that protrudes through the gum. In many ways, dental implants function like natural teeth. Inflammation: Localized protective response elicited by injury or destruction of tissues, which serves to destroy, dilute, or wall of both in injurious agent and the injured area.
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Adjustment Selective grinding of teeth or restorations to alter shape or from DENTAL 1175090438 at Tufts
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Adjustment Selective grinding of teeth or restorations to alter shape or contour and establish stable occlusion. Angle A corner. x Cavosurface angle: An angle formed between the cavity wall and surface of the tooth. x Line angle: The angle formed between two cavity walls or tooth surfaces.
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Enamel: The hard, calcified (mineralized) portion of the tooth which covers the crown. Enamel is the hardest substance in the body. Endodontics: The dental specialty that deals with injuries to or diseases of the pulp, or nerve, of the tooth. Extraction: The removal of a tooth.
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Mobility of teeth: The degree of looseness of a tooth. Mucogingival: A generic term used to describe the mucogingival junction and its relationships to the attached gingiva, alveolar mucosa, frenula, muscle attachments and the buccal and labial vestibule. Mucosa: The tissue lining the oral cavity. (Return to Top)
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Calculus: A hard deposit attached to the teeth, usually consisting of mineralized bacterial plaque. Candida: Yeast often found in association with oral disease such as “thrush”. Caverous resorption: Bone loss leaving hollow spaces. Such resorption may appear on radiographs of teeth with vertical root fractures. Cementoenamel, Junction (CEJ): The area at which the enamel and cementum are united at the cervical region of the tooth. Cementum: A mineralized bone-like tissue that covers the tooth root and blends with the periodontal ligament to hold the tooth in place.
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Molars: The broad, multicuspid back teeth, used for grinding food are considered the largest teeth in the mouth. In adults there are a total of twelve molars (including the four wisdom teeth, or third molars), three on each side of the upper and lower jaws.
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Calculus:The hard deposit of mineralized plaque that forms on the crown and/or root of the tooth. Also referred to as tartar. Canine tooth:The second tooth from the big front tooth, commonly called the eye tooth or cuspid. Cap: Another term for crown; usually referring to a crown for a front tooth.
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Calculus A hard deposit attached to the teeth, usually consisting of mineralized bacterial plaque. Caries An infectious microbiological disease that results in localized dissolution and destruction of the calcified tissues of the teeth.
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is a hard mineralized deposit attached to the teeth
A hard deposit attached to the teeth, usually consisting of mineralized bacterial plaque.