(n.) A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was shown that: although the oral hygiene level was very low and no dental treatments were performed, caries level was very low--although gingivitis rate was high, advanced periodontitis rate was low--the frequency of interincisive diastema (one subject out of 4 in the 15-19 age group), the progressive decline of tooth cutting, a traditional practice, in town people but the large extent of cola use (one adult out of two).
(2) The definitions, aetiology, and symptomatology of the diastema mediale superior are discussed in the present study on the basis of personal experience and reports in the literature, special attention being paid to the verbal evaluation of "genuine" or "spurious".
(3) The authors describe a clinical case of closing upper central incisives diastema, reconstructiva of a conoid upper lateral and the rechaping of an upper canine to a lateral incisive.
(4) Median diastema in twenty patients aged 17-30 years old were restored randomly with two light cured composite resins.
(5) This approach sustains a physiologic load on the periodontium and prevents a recurrence of the diastema.
(6) The primary factors contributing to maxillary diastema appear to be degree of spacing or crowding in most cases, the specific types of sutures and frenum making a minor contribution.
(7) In the management of diastema verum associated with persistent labial frenum it is important to distinguish, on the basis of clinical testing, between a normal and abnormal labial frenum.
(8) A diastema developed between the incisors and the force was transmitted superolaterally and then transmedially, thus causing fractures in the nasal complex and other iatrogenic sequelae.
(9) In spite of the success and excellent results orthodontists have had in correcting dental abnormalities, one particular area which lends itself to relapse is the diastema between the incisors.
(10) A three-stage surgical procedure was shown to be very effective in alleviating the relapse phenomenon following orthodontic treatment of diastemas.
(11) The medial and lateral parts of the m1 epithelial anlage are situated in dorsal continuation of both the dental and vestibular laminae of the diastema region.
(12) In connection with this case report considerations are made concerning the normal development of the dentition and the need for orthodontic treatment of a median diastema in the maxilla.
(13) From the analysis of histories, dental casts, and cephalograms of 471 children of the Burlington Growth Centre sample, interrelationships between the degree of spacing, crowding, diastema and frenum and suture type were derived and the following conclusions were drawn: 1.
(14) Results were as follows: (1) In amphibian eggs the diastema was formed after development of the MA, appearing between the two asters after the MA had begun to degenerate.
(15) or greater at age 9, there was a significant association between the diastema and the amounts of crowding or spacing at age 16.
(16) This study used finite element stress analysis to investigate the stress-concentrating effect of a fraenal notch with and without a midline diastema.
(17) The diagnosis is made accidentally or from abnormal findings such as persistance of a milk tooth, disturbances in tooth eruption, diastema and others.
(18) This report describes a means of replacing a missing anterior tooth, while maintaining a midline diastema.
(19) It was found that a large fraenal notch resulted in high stress levels and that these stresses were augmented more by a narrow median diastema than its wider counterpart.
(20) The diastema in which the retained tooth develops should exceed its mediodistal diameter.
Teeth
Definition:
(n.) pl. of Tooth.
(v. i.) To breed, or grow, teeth.
(pl. ) of Tooth
Example Sentences:
(1) The proportion of teeth per child with calculus was approximately 8 percent for supragingival and 4 percent for subgingival calculus.
(2) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
(3) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(4) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
(5) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
(6) The teeth were embedded in phenolic rings with acrylic resin.
(7) In self-opinions on own appearance the children mentioned teeth as a feature which they would like to change as first.
(8) The association of these defects of teeth and bone was found to be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait over four generations.
(9) With the teeth in occlusion, lip separation was reduced.
(10) Unaltered surface enamel of extracted human teeth was subjected to tests of resistance to dissolution in 10 mM acetic acid at pH 4.0 and 10 mM EDTA at pH 7.4 in a miniature continuous flow system.
(11) The first method used an accelerometer mounted between the teeth of one of the authors (PR) to record skeletal shock.
(12) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
(13) In only two of the killed and four of the hospitalized persons, reports of intact canine teeth as demonstrated by the typical lesions were available.
(14) Oral Guedel airways do not necessarily protect the patient's teeth during inhalation anesthesia.
(15) Based on the findings of our recent longitudinal study on the abnormalities of the dentition in cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD), a hypothesis has been proposed, which makes it possible to predict time of onset of formation of supernumerary teeth and their location in the jaws.
(16) The teeth of 13 dental nurse students were brushed by a dental hygienist.
(17) In each subject, 4 teeth were randomly selected for assessment.
(18) The roots of the incisor teeth should, if possible, be placed accurately in this zone and a method of achieving this is suggested.
(19) This short paper includes extracts from the original translations of Leeuwenhoek's descriptions of the histology of teeth, investigates his findings and demonstrates that in addition to describing dentinal tubules, he may have identified the presence of calcospherites within that tissue.
(20) An unusual and extremely rare displacement of teeth due to trauma, resulting in cervical space cellulitis with probable secondary complications is presented.