(a.) Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.
(a.) Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d t are dental letters.
(a.) An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth.
(a.) A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(4) None of the other soft tissue layers-ameloblasts, stratum intermedium or dental follicle--immunostain for TGF-beta 1.
(5) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
(6) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
(7) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
(8) For dental procedures requiring tracheal intubation, one could perhaps use non-depolarizing muscle relaxants, like pancuronium, with reversal at the end of the procedure.
(9) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
(10) The study included fifty children, aged six to fourteen years, selected from patients seeking routine dental care at Children's Hospital National Medical Center.
(11) Hence, presence of IgG rheumatoid factor correlated positively with the presence of rheumatoid disease, and evidence was established that certain features of rheumatoid inflammation occur in dental periapical lesions of many patients with rheumatoid disease.
(12) The most striking feature of some industrialized countries is a dramatic reduction of the prevalence of dental caries among school-aged children.
(13) Furthermore, the effect of immunization was examined in monkeys previously given fluoride in their diet and which had developed a low incidence of dental caries when offered a human type of diet containing about 15 per cent sucrose.
(14) Second, this report can be adopted and adapted by the entire health service, from dental practices to ambulances, from GP surgeries to acute hospitals.
(15) Photo-sensitivity probably only limits the processing period slightly, at least under these conditions relevant for the dental practice.
(16) Ex-patients of a dental fear clinic were found to have significantly reduced, yet still high, dental anxiety scores in comparison with the pre-intervention scores.
(17) The influence of mucin on the corrosion behaviour of seven typical dental casting alloys was investigated.
(18) Recurrence of the dermatitis one day after amalgam dental fillings had been made and again one year later, this time without new fillings, raised the possibility that it was due to the old amalgam fillings.
(19) Beginning with its foundation by Charles Godon in 1900 he describes the growth of the Federation as an organization of the dental profession which continued despite the interruption of two world wars.
(20) The cardiorespiratory effects of trichloroethylene supplementation of nitrous oxide-oxygen anesthesia, with simultaneous use of halothane at induction as needed, were studied in outpatient oral surgery patients undergoing dental extractions under general anesthesia.
Lingual
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter.
(n.) A consonant sound formed by the aid of the tongue; -- a term especially applied to certain articulations (as those of t, d, th, and n) and to the letters denoting them.
Example Sentences:
(1) The temperature increased from the anterior to the posterior region on both buccal and lingual sides of both arches.
(2) This was found to be homologous with the N-terminal sequence of rat lingual lipase.
(3) On the buccal and lingual aspects of the implants, both the absolute lengths and CLF were significantly smaller for the porous-coated design.
(4) An abscess of a lingual tonsil should be drained under general anesthesia, and lingual thyroid should be treated conservatively unless it produces obstructive symptoms.
(5) All the teeth were also measured on both their buccal and lingual aspects to assess the amount of gingival recession.
(6) It was suggested that they might be viewed as a representative sample of magnitude-estimation numbers that could be employed in experimentation on lingual vibrotactile magnitude production.
(7) A bucco-lingual cross action through the mandible in the canine area revealed central osteomas.
(8) Cervical cavities were prepared on the lingual and vestibular surfaces in 19 freshly extracted human teeth.
(9) Twelve weeks after crushing the lingual nerve, the regenerated fibres had slower conduction velocities but the receptor properties were not significantly different from normal.
(10) The results indicate that the tongue-to-teeth contact area of each sound differ from the others, however, it's range is confined within cervical half of lingual surface of incisors and lingual cusps of molars.
(11) Three main clinical entities of various intensity have been defined: 8 patients had severe intellectual and motor dysfunctions associated with a bucco-lingual dyspraxia; in 4 patients, the intellectual and motor alterations were less intense but were associated with a severe bucco-lingual dyspraxia; finally one patient had no clinical symptomatology but a chronic lymphocytic meningitis.
(12) In the lingual portion of the incisal periodontal ligament, these nerve fibers were localized in the alveolar half of the periodontal ligament and were observed as free nerve endings.
(13) Data System DALI (Drawing Arch Lingual Ideal) allows to draw the exact design of the wire.
(14) Two-dimensional photoelastic analysis of resin-bonded cingulum rest seats demonstrated improvement in stress distribution when the lingual surface of the tooth was prepared with a cingulum groove.
(15) A macular-sparing superior altitudinal hemianopia with no visuo-psychic disturbance, except impaired visual learning, was associated with bilateral ischaemic necrosis of the lingual gyrus and only partial involvement of the fusiform gyrus on the left side.
(16) Plaque was assessed at baseline and at the end of the 2-week study period using the Turesky modification of the Quigley and Hine index for all buccal and lingual surfaces.
(17) Both drugs relieved the parkinsonian symptoms but the animals on Sinemet developed after 2 weeks prominent lingual dyskinesia which remained visible after each dose until the end of the experiment.
(18) The nerve with the largest proportion of these fibers is the auriculotemporal nerve (50-60% of all labeled neurons), while the smallest percentages are found in the lingual nerve and motor root (about 5% each).
(19) We have concluded from the final data that the sublingual bar compares favorably with the lingual plate in patient acceptance and should be considered as a viable design alternative when a lingual plate is not indicated.
(20) A study of intermandibular variations in bone mass in cortices between regions of the alveolar process and mandibular body and between buccal and lingual cortices in the same region has been carried out.