(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.
Plugger
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, plugs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results demonstrated that, when the coronal half of the root canal filling material was removed immediately after placement with pluggers, there was a loss of the apical seal and leakage in thirteen of twenty teeth.
(2) It has been shown that the taper should be sufficient to permit deep penetration of the spreader or plugger alongside the gutta-percha during lateral condensation.
(3) Assuming luck runs their way, the radio plugger can keep the playlisters onside, and social media reminds old fans of the band's existence, the Hoosiers might be able to keep their career afloat.
(4) Because all but one sterilized group had fatigue lifetimes statistically equal to or greater than nonsterilized controls, clinicians generally can use any of the three sterilization methods without fear of plugger failure.
(5) The same was true of all those promo copies, posters, radio pluggers and payola men, producers, publicists, tour support, 8x10 glossies, shipping, freight – basically anything that could be associated with a specific band or record was ultimately paid for by the band, not by the record label.
(6) Three different application techniques were used for the Cermet fillings: 1. syringe only, 2. syringe and amalgam plugger, 3. individual occlusal plugger.
(7) Also, the D11 spreader caused greater root distortion than did the B-finger plugger.
(8) Seventy roots were prepared and filled with gutta-percha using the Engine Plugger for thermatic compaction.
(9) After sterilization, experimental and control finger pluggers were subjected to cyclic bending until fracture.
(10) The Calasept injection system followed by a #25 finger plugger was the second most effective technique.
(11) This study did not demonstrate a significant difference statistically in loss of apical seal and leakage between teeth prepared with and those without immediate dowel space preparations with pluggers using a chloropercha filling technique.
(12) Different ways to gain more efficient lateral condensation are studied: plugger and gutta-percha points selection and adaptation, combination with thermomecanical technique or assistance by ultrasonic or thermal systems.
(13) The theory goes that the internet will help artists reach their audiences more directly and make for deeper connections between band and fan; but as yet, self-promotion via social media still lacks the impact of national radio play, and hiring a radio plugger is a must.
(14) Two sources of ultrasonic oscillation were used: a Cavitron 2001 ultrasonic unit with a file in a PR-30 insert and an ENAC ultrasonic unit with a plugger or file.
(15) At the time, there were these two enormously influential record pluggers called Ferret'n'Spanner.
(16) And commercial radio was absolutely locked up by the payola-driven system of the pluggers and program directors.
(17) Significantly less leakage was observed with the heated plugger technique at the 3 mm and 5 mm levels when compared to the 3 mm and 5 mm levels in both the GPX and Gates-Glidden groups.
(18) The incidence of vertical root fractures and the amount of root distortion created during lateral condensation of gutta-percha with either D11 spreaders or B-finger pluggers were evaluated in vitro.
(19) The depth of penetration of a #40 finger plugger under constant weight for 15 min was also determined for each solvent.
(20) "Pluggers know that when they send us music, it's decided by young people whether we play it or not," Adrian explains.