(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.
Osteotome
Definition:
(n.) Strong nippers or a chisel for dividing bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Progress in orthognathic surgery as well as the special methods now available for proper setting of osteotomic segments, diagnostic aids and therapeutic possibilities of orthodontics have considerably strengthened the case today for giving adults a combined treatment.
(2) The wire functioned as a spindle along which the distraction of the osteotomized bone fragments was continued.
(3) Shortening of the osteotomized clavicle by only 1 cm leads to an increase of these forces by about 40%.
(4) Unphysiological elongation of the calcaneus tendon was performed by distraction of the osteotomized lower leg with the aid of an external minifixator.
(5) This condition can be corrected by osteotomizing the lateral malleolus and restoring the integrity of the distal tibiofibular joint by pulling the lateral malleolus distally and internally rotating it.
(6) Total regeneration of an osteotomized fibula is rarely reported in the literature.
(7) Clinical and histological tests were made in five minipigs to study the hitherto unknown tissue behaviour of the receiver organism to unilaterally uncovered perforated ceramic implants in the bilaterally osteotomized facial maxillary sinus wall.
(8) The authors propose to stimulate distraction osteogenesis by means of implanting bone matrix both into the resection area after removing the suppurative necrotic focus and into the region of the osteotomized fragment.
(9) Six osteotomized patients had troublesome abductor weakness secondary to wire breakage and proximal migration of the trochanter.
(10) With this method, the ascending ramus is osteotomized vertically from an extra-oral incision.
(11) For the three parameters considered, the mean percentage differences between the osteotomized plated bones and their paired-sham-operated controls were 69, 64 and 80 per cent, respectively.
(12) Internal fixation of the osteotomized radial bones was accomplished with small right-angled T plates, and the limbs were placed in full-limb casts for 3 weeks and tube casts for 3 more weeks.
(13) The most likely explanation for the complication is a transmittal of force from the osteotome used to fracture through the pterygoid plates extending superiorly through the medial surface of the cavernous sinus.
(14) In this method the osteotomized bones and their intact contralateral controls are tested in nondestructive bending, in twenty-four planes of loading at 15 degree angular increments.
(15) Significant necrosis is unlikely to occur if a surgeon follows the basic principle of stripping the minimal amount of mucoperiosteum and muscle attachment from the osteotomized segments commensurate with the successful completion of the osteotomies.
(16) Forty preserved human cadaveric radii were randomized into osteotomized (20) and nonosteotomized (20) groups.
(17) The length of bone that can be removed is 25 cm; the bone may be osteotomized in 2 to 4 fragments retaining their vitality.
(18) A study is presented in which transversely osteotomized rabbit tibiae were allowed to heal for 3 to 8 weeks.
(19) However, the exposure is less wide than when the greater trochanter is osteotomized and likelihood of technical error is increased.
(20) Significant reduction in blood flow to the osteotomized maxillary segment was noted in those animals (group S) where the descending palatine vessels were transected.