(1) This resulted in greater uniformity of abrasion over the enamel surface within the biopsy window area and better operator handling characteristics.
(2) Shaping and fine working of restorations necessitated by cervical lesions, abrasions at the necks of teeth, or root surface caries can often be arduous to complete.
(3) The row between two of the media industry's most colourful and abrasive figures took place in the YouView boardroom, located at Desmond's Northern & Shell Thameside skyscraper.
(4) Abrasive brushing techniques wear down the already damaged tooth surfaces.
(5) Orthopedic new approaches to therapy of OA include removal of abnormal tissue to stimulate repair (e.g., burring, abrasion) and grafting (e.g., osteochondral grafts, perichondrium, periosteum) to the subchondral bone.
(6) Before we meet, I have to have a stern talk with myself about not mentioning the game last August in which all Arsenal fans will contend that Barton got new signing Gervinho sent off on his debut; he's had similarly abrasive encounters since with fellow midfielders, Karl Henry from Wolves and Norwich's Bradley Johnson, the latter earning him a three-match ban.
(7) Elevated risks for stomach cancer among carpenters and machinists may reflect exposure to dusts, abrasives, and cutting oils.
(8) The testing was based on The British Standards Institution's specification for toothpastes, using a profilometer technique to evaluate the abrasion.
(9) Creation of smear layers with abrasive paper or dental burs reduced permeability by 80-85%.
(10) Since prosthetic meniscal replacement may be performed in the setting of normal articular cartilage, a prosthesis will be required to match the exact joint configuration, induce the same lubricity, produce the same coefficient of friction, and absorb and dampen the same joint forces (without incurring significant creep or abrasion) as does the normal meniscus.
(11) The titanium alloy strips were treated with citric acid, stannous fluoride, tetracycline HCl, chlorhexidine gluconate, hydrogen peroxide, chloramine T, sterile water, a plastic sonic scaler tip, and an air-powder abrasive unit.
(12) Perhaps grime and dubstep were simply too abrasive and strange to be successfully watered down for mainstream tastes.
(13) Relief from pain occurred in all patients soon after abrasion was performed.
(14) After mechanical denudation of the endothelium with a specially designed abrasive micropipette, spontaneous tone and myogenic responses were preserved.
(15) An abrasively Thatcherite style would be poison to their Lib Dem partners.
(16) Current management of hand injuries includes debridement by abrasive scrubbing with anti-bacterial detergents, surgical excision, or pressure irrigation.
(17) Plaque accumulations were also frequently located in abrasion grooves and surface pits in the enamel, and prolific plaque areas were consistently surrounded by a monolayer of bacterial cells.
(18) Corneal abrasion occurred in two babies and corneal oedema in one baby after forceps delivery but in none of the control group.
(19) However, person-to-person variation can have a great influence on the abrasion process; moreover, only two persons were involved in this pilot study, and no definitive statement can be made about the effect of the toothpastes.
(20) Recently a redesigned air-powder abrasive system was introduced to remove dental plaque and stain from tooth surfaces.
Smoothen
Definition:
(v. t.) To make smooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the muscular bioptates of patients with Duchenne's myopathy as the disease progresses there is a gradual smoothening of the diameter of preserved elements at the expense of almost complete disappearance of hypertrophysed filaments.
(2) There was no correlation between smoothening of the skin surface and increase in skin thickness, and no correlation to the duration of the plaques.
(3) The schools for the physically disabled seek to smoothen their transition into adult life by leaving-grade programmes aimed at providing opportunities for work-related experience as well as at building coping skills for day-to-day living.
(4) Comparing light and scanning electron microscopy of a chronically lymphostatic and two normal cisternae chyli made visible a normally folded and smoothened (under load) cisternal wall.
(5) Measurements by a stylus method showed smoothening of the skin in all plaques studied (p less than 0.01).
(6) The periosteoperichondrial flap provides excellent covering for the reconstructed bony and cartilaginous nasal pyramid, smoothens the new nasal dorsum, stabilizes the medial osteotomies, and prevents supratip protrusion.
(7) The volume and time data are stored in a micro-computer and a programme written in dBASEIII Plus is used to smoothen and derive the standard volume-time, flow-volume and time domain indices.
(8) Given in two daily doses the inhibitor smoothened the blood glucose profile by lowering significantly post-prandial blood glucose peaks.
(9) In the study of the effect of age and sex in relation to the fatty acid levels, regression analysis was applied to smoothened data to take care of extraneous effects or variables.
(10) 4-8 furnish the smoothened normal curves for 10th, 50th and 90th percentile.
(11) Important prerequisites for the construction of such a cavity are: A good overview obtained by smoothening of the cavity walls; widening of the auditory canal entrance (cartilage excision); removal of excess bone covering the facial nerve; and reducing the size of the cavity by means of a Palva flap while preserving the postauricular artery and its larger branches.
(12) Smoothing by means of sliding average procedures causes a systematic deformation of the systolic dip and other similar regions of the curve, since the curve smoothened in this way does not converge towards the original curve at these points.
(13) Guar smoothens postprandial glucose peaks and reduces serum cholesterol.
(14) S. mitis and C. albicans, on the other hand, more adhered to the smoothening-treated surface.
(15) 400 paper-polished surface than to the buff-polished and smoothening-treated surfaces.
(16) Cells of cytocentrifuged preparations showed a significant increase in diameter and smoothening of the cell surface as compared with the morphology of non-centrifuged cells.
(17) Chemical polishing of this surface results in a roughening of the topography whilst annealing in oxygen considerably smoothens the surfaces although they appear to be contaminated.
(18) A preceding Free-Wilson analysis allows data smoothening, and thus improved adaptation.
(19) Lasers are used in arthroscopy not only to divide tissue but also to smoothen cartilage, for hemostasis, for percutaneous lumbar and cervical disc surgery, for photodynamic therapy, for tumor therapy and in diagnosis.
(20) S. sanguis less adhered to the smoothening-treated surface.