(n.) The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
(2) The authors present a quite unused technique that helps to simplify the cavity preparation in Operative Dentistry.
(3) This is the first archaeological evidence of operative dentistry in ancient Israel, as well as the earliest date for this specific treatment in the world.
(4) By its actions, this musculature effects many phases of dentistry, directly or indirectly; and orthodontics is affected most of all.
(5) The use of glass-ionomer cements in clinical dentistry has expanded greatly over the last decade.
(6) This agent is used in dentistry as a vasoconstrictor (Neo-Cobefrin) and although its pharmacologic activilty is weaker than that of (-) norepinephrine, it appears that this agent can have significant pharmacologic effects at higher doses.
(7) If we are to attend to the entire health needs of our geriatric patients, then a thorough knowledge of veterinary dentistry is absolutely necessary.
(8) A preventive dentistry program conducted by 34 and 27 senior dental students as an integral part of children's clinic was evaluated.
(9) In order to maximize the prognosis, it is necessary to understand the patient, to make a thorough diagnosis, to coordinate the restoration with the other disciplines of dentistry, and to be knowledgeable of the spectrum of treatment modalities available.
(10) Behavior management in pediatric dentistry is taught as a clinical science and few dentists learn the historical basis of the techniques in use today.
(11) Multiple regression of this preventive orientation index on selected independent variables showed that, for the entire sample, variables representing involvement in academic and institutional dentistry, exposure to education through journals and courses, a predeliction for innovation, and the presence of a hygienist in the office, were most influential in creating a model that successfully predicted reported preventive behavior.
(12) A simple, manual current awareness service at the University of Southern California School of Dentistry, designed to provide the user with photocopied tables of contents from selected journals, is described.
(13) Voice control, a punishment technique based on loud commands, has been used widely in pediatric dentistry.
(14) The municipial Children's dentistry prevention committee to carry out the complex programme was formed in 1985.
(15) Part I of this study is to assess the dental instruments sterilization at the College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Random samples were taken from the CSSD for this purpose.
(16) A national survey of predoctoral community dentistry faculty members provided "ratings of importance" for each of 32 community dentistry topics.
(17) Explosive growth in high-technology imaging continues in dentistry as in all health sciences.
(18) The difficulties encountered in casting titanium and its alloys have until recently hindered any widespread use of titanium in restorative dentistry.
(19) The introduction of specialized syringes in the late 1970s and early 1980s has led to an increase in the use of intraligamentary anaesthesia as a means of pain control in dentistry.
(20) A group programme involving four sessions in which clients were taught anxiety management skills, exposed in imagination to situations relating, to dentistry, and given homework assignments was carried out with clients presenting with disproportionate dental anxiety.
Diagnosis
Definition:
(n.) The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the decision arrived at.
(n.) Scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species.
(n.) Critical perception or scrutiny; judgment based on such scrutiny; esp., perception of, or judgment concerning, motives and character.
Example Sentences:
(1) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(2) Pathological and immunocytochemical data supported the diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
(3) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
(4) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(5) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
(6) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(7) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(8) This diagnosis was obscured by the absence of cutaneous, oropharyngeal, and respiratory involvement.
(9) The procedure was used on 71 occasions, and in each case a clinical diagnosis was made and compared with the cytological diagnosis made independently by a pathologist.
(10) Other approaches to the diagnosis of pancreatic pseudocysts are reviewed.
(11) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
(12) Most thyroid hormone actions, however, appear in the perinatal period, and infants with thyroid agenesis appear normal at birth and develop normally with prompt neonatal diagnosis and treatment.
(13) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(14) The differential diagnosis is more complex in Hawaii due to the presence of granulomatous diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy.
(15) Recognition of the distinctive morphology of MH and the performance of ancillary studies on cytologic preparations should facilitate the rapid diagnosis and early treatment of this aggressive disease.
(16) The diagnosis of variant- or Prizmetal-angina is difficult because if insufficient specificity of the tests.
(17) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(18) Her muscle weakness and hyperCKemia markedly improved by corticosteroid therapy, suggesting that the diagnosis was compatible with polymyositis (PM).
(19) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(20) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.