(n.) The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.
(v. t.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.
(v. t.) To make a chamfer on.
Example Sentences:
(1) Somehow, everything we produced had a decidedly 1970s feel, a look formed by both the number of chamfered blocks in the set, and the inescapable desire to make everything symmetrical as you stack floor upon floor.
(2) Although the dentin bonding agents tend to accumulate on chamfers, thereby increasing their thickness to 200-300 microns, the method looks promising as a simple way to protect the pulp from the consequences of microleakage.
(3) A chamfer with a bevel, a shoulder with a bevel, or chamfer preparations are not suited to this technique.
(4) The crown margin designs taught most often were the flat shoulder, the 45-degree bevel shoulder, and the chamfer.
(5) This study evaluated chamfered and beveled preparations for Class IV restorations of lesions with microfilled and macrofilled composite resin.
(6) Serial radiographic analyses demonstrate progressive narrowing of all of the chamfered cylinder design and less in hemispherical design with screw fixation.
(7) This study tested three different types of crown margin preparations--a chamfer, a shoulder, and a shoulder plus a bevel to determine whether or not the margin preparation could affect microleakage.
(8) Facial and lingual chamfer margins were placed in enamel, mesial and distal in dentin and cementum, and castings were made in Rexillium III alloy and were then cemented with a standardized technique.
(9) This study indicated that the resin bonded cast fixed partial denture with the lingual chamfer margin and mesial rest was the design to be chosen.
(10) Group I consisted of 43 restorations placed without any tooth preparation; Group II consisted of 72 restorations placed using a chamfer preparation.
(11) The margin designs were rounded-shoulder, rounded-shoulder with a bevel, and a chamfer.
(12) On the acetabular side, both the cementless hemispherical with screw-type adjuvant fixation, or the chamfered cylinder designs, used primarily with the UCLA porous surface replacements, but also with stem-type devices, appear to achieve best short-term results, while the entire variety of screw rings are disappointing.
(13) With 76 different types of Lego bricks scattered across the table, from flat baseplates to chamfered wedge-shaped blocks and lots of tiny pieces with nipples and sockets sprouting in all directions, the challenge was to know where to begin.
(14) These included the use of thin metal copings (0.1 and 0.2 mm), a chamfer preparation, an alloy with relatively poor creep resistance, and a large thermal contraction mismatch between the alloy and porcelain layers.
(15) The accepted marginal design indicated by manufacturers for ceramic jacket crowns is the 90 degrees full shoulder with a rounded gingival-axial line angle or a deep chamfer.
(16) The weakest restorations were observed when a 0.8-mm chamfer finish line (66.8 kg) was used.
(17) Seventy extracted intact, non-carious maxillary central incisors, of approximately the same size, were collected and randomly divided into the following seven groups: 90 degrees butt joint (control)), 1 and 2 mm 45 degrees bevels, 1 and 2 mm 60 degrees bevels, and 1 and 2 mm chamfer margins.
(18) There was no significant difference in marginal fit between the shoulder and the chamfer configuration in every luting material examined.
(19) The coping and crown dimensions were based on a prepared maxillary central incisor with a facial shoulder and a lingual chamfer.
(20) The experiments were conducted in the following manner: Ten pieces of full cast crowns were constructed by a conventional procedure with 12% Au-Ag-Pd alloy and each test-piece was cemented alternately by zinc phosphate cement on a master die (stainless steel) with a chamfer margin.
Flange
Definition:
(n.) An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc.
(n.) A plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe.
(v. t.) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
(v. i.) To be bent into a flange.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Velcro band attached to two lateral flanges keeps the catheter in place.
(2) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.
(3) Some of the patients of the latter group used guide flange prostheses during the postoperative period to return the mandible to the centric position.
(4) The impression materials were applied to the denture flanges by two different methods.
(5) The article generalizes experience in anesthesiological management of 178 elderly and old-aged patients with fractures of the proximal segment of the femur in endoprosthesis with a Mura-Cito prosthesis, 3-flange nail, Shesterni's fixation device, arched nail, etc.
(6) (3) A higher risk of proximal occlusion with flanged ventricular catheter.
(7) A subaortic annular aneurysm involving three fourths of the annular circumference was repaired with a valved conduit to which a Teflon felt flange was attached.
(8) There were statistically significant differences in the flange form measurement distances among the different materials and method of application of the material.
(9) With the next 119 sockets, 111 of which were flanged, the eburnated and subchondral bone was preserved and multiple small anchor holes were used.
(10) Fixation included tines or fins (160), screw (40), flange (12), and other (16).
(11) A three-flanged nail or three screws were used randomly.
(12) Localized cytoplasmic expansions are often present near the periphery of these flanges.
(13) In many places erythrocytes were virtually absent from the blood laguna, which was filled with the flanges of pillar cells.
(14) No components have migrated despite the absence of adjunct fixation mechanisms such as screws and flanges.
(15) The design combined the use of a two-part cobalt-chromium lingual plate bolted together by an anterior flange which replaced missing lower anterior teeth.
(16) Two bovine enamel blocks were placed in each buccal flange of the dental appliances of five volunteers.
(17) The devices chosen for study were the E-A-R expandable foam plug, the Willson Sound Silencer premolded vinyl plug with double flange, the Bilsom Soft polyethylene encapsulated glass fiber plug, and the MSA Ear Defender (V-51R) premolded vinyl plug with single flange.
(18) In the group with the microporous Monostrut mitral valve, 19 animals were put to death and examined: (1) The endothelialized covering over the suture ring, thinner when carbon coated, continued over the microporous flange, tapering off in the center of the orifice in all 19 valves on the ventricular side and in 14 of the 19 valves on the atrial side; (2) the center of the orifice and the struts were never completely covered by endothelialized tissue because of high flow; (3) there was an increased incidence of small thrombus formation on the disc-contacting microporous surface of both inflow and outflow struts.
(19) The only significant difference between the groups was the angle overheading to the central point of left coronary orifice anastomosed with intermediate tube from the extensive line of the prosthetic flange obtained in the left anterior oblique views on the angiography.
(20) To a basic cup designed with pods, four different types of flange designs were added: a cup without a flange, a cup having a flange with 12 scallops, a cup having a flange with three scallops, and a cup having a continuous flange.