What's the difference between edentulous and toothless?

Edentulous


Definition:

  • (a.) Toothless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This investigation presents a commentary about two researches locating the terminal hing axis (THA) in totally edentulous people determined through the guided and not guided methods with chin compression.
  • (2) Complete dentures were made for 30 edentulous patients.
  • (3) Otherwise, this study finds no basis for selection of intraoral sites for specific intraoral radiographs of asymptomatic edentulous patients.
  • (4) VDR was determined by dentulous and edentulous subjects by conventional and electromyographic methods.
  • (5) This article describes the presurgical evaluation and surgical procedures for the treatment of partially edentulous patients with ITI hollow-screw implants.
  • (6) In selecting and arranging anterior artificial teeth for edentulous patients, it is necessary to consider their sex, personality, age and other factors.
  • (7) The edentulous posterior maxilla often has inadequate bone for endosteal implants.
  • (8) An estimated 41% are completely edentulous, and dental caries, including root-surface caries, and destructive periodontal disease are widespread.
  • (9) The authors categorized the height, width, and anteroposterior dimensions of the edentulous maxillae.
  • (10) Loaded as well as unloaded implants can function as tooth root analogues in maintaining the volume of the edentulous ridge.
  • (11) Edentulousness varies with the availability and accessibility of dental care.
  • (12) This sex difference could not be entirely accounted for by differences in the period of edentulousness or age of males and females.
  • (13) The ability of ten edentulous patients and one patient with a full upper removable denture and a full arch (16-26) lower fixed denture to adapt to sudden change of the interocclusal distance was tested.
  • (14) In the short- to medium-term future, partial edentulism will increase in the older population at the expense of total edentulism.
  • (15) The majority (80%) of the sample were edentulous, and a large proportion of both edentate and dentate subjects were using dentures.
  • (16) The study concerned 35 lateral head films of edentulous patients chosen at random.
  • (17) Zinc oxide-eugenol paste are widely used in clinical dentistry, principally for impression of non-undercut edentulous ridges, or bite taking materials.
  • (18) A higher percentage of BPBs and wet spreaders (Capnocytophaga) was noted at partially edentulous implant sites when compared with edentulous implant sites, perhaps reflecting the lower numbers of periodontal pathogens present in edentulous mouths.
  • (19) 56% of the subjects said they would choose a dental technician the next time health center services become more general and patients are more able to get treatment by dentists at a reduced cost, it seems probable that the majority of the edentulous will again resort to the dentists.
  • (20) There is a tendency for trabecular bone density and width in edentulous specimens to be comparatively lower than for dentulous specimens and a similar decrease in continuity of the trabecular bones.

Toothless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no teeth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinical specifications: On a local clinical level, the total toothlessness of the elderly presents as: a muscular hypotomy, a loss of the vertical dimension of occlusion, a marked increase in nasal and oral fissures, a stiffening of the articular structures, a great reduction of osteo-mucus in the residual edges, a spreading of the tongue which invades the oral cavity, a loss of occlusive memory, Bearing on therapy and teaching: good clinical observation, constant reference to the medical services, appropriate surgery prior to denture fitting.
  • (2) Ministers should resist attempts to give courts a greater role in the revocation of citizenship for terrorism suspects in order to prevent the law becoming “toothless”, a leaked government document says.
  • (3) It makes the ICC look spineless and toothless.” Ultimately, Libya’s state today is about more than one man, and many feel that the western governments who were eager to get Gaddafi out failed to help Libya stabilise after his death.
  • (4) "Without targets, Redd becomes toothless," said Peg Putt of the Wilderness Society .
  • (5) Without him the team's looks "a bit toothless", he says.
  • (6) Culture site the AV Club dismissed the show as “a dreadful, toothless, dead-eyed slog”.
  • (7) Its inaction over allegations of widespread phone hacking at the News of the World led it to being branded a "toothless poodle".
  • (8) Doesn't the hedging unit undertaking prop trading prove the toothlessness of the Volcker rule?
  • (9) Toothless is an osteopetrotic mutation in the rat characterized by reduced bone resorption, few osteoclasts and failure to be cured by bone marrow transplants from normal littermates.
  • (10) Writing on the Guardian's website, shadow exchequer minister Owen Smith was sceptical, saying the anti-avoidance measures would be "a toothless tiger".
  • (11) As for the supposed improvements in the Pacific deal, he said, “It’s the same tired old labor standards we had with George Bush, with a few trinkets added.” In a largely toothless side agreement, Nafta’s three signatories – the United States, Mexico and Canada – targeted child labor, minimum-wage violations and occupational safety problems.
  • (12) Some had speculated that the Red Devils might be porous at the back, despite conceding only four goals in qualifying, but few predicted that they would be quite so toothless going forward.
  • (13) As journalist Peter Maass noted , “The agency can take companies to court, but its overworked lawyers don’t really have the time to go the distance against the bottomless legal staff in Silicon Valley.” Maass concluded that the agency was low-tech, toothless – and defensive about work like his.
  • (14) The number of completely toothless individuals was higher (11.83%) with diabetics than with healthy individuals (2.25%).
  • (15) Tottenham toothless without Harry Kane and must find another striker Read more Soldado joined Tottenham from Valencia in a then club-record £26m transfer but has arrived at Villarreal for a fee reported to be around £7m.
  • (16) The policing and crime panel is just a toothless watchdog with no power to intervene.
  • (17) It has been suggested that the fossil Neandertal from La Chapelle-aux-Saints was so toothless that he would have had to have his food pre-chewed or otherwise prepared for him.
  • (18) They contributed to their own downfall with defensive mistakes, as Paul Lambert, Villa's manager, ruefully acknowledged, and looked toothless up front, where the lack of goals and Christian Benteke's loss of form are a genuine concern.
  • (19) California water restrictions have not stopped the sprinklers from flowing Read more Governor Jerry Brown, who has come under fire for imposing a 25% reduction in water use on cities and municipalities but not on farms, signed a relatively toothless law last year that gave the state no power to assign rights to groundwater use.
  • (20) Jon Stewart, who has taken to the story of the crack-smoking mayor like Ford to the pipe, laughed at the city council's apparent toothlessness when attempting to strip him of his mayoral position: "That's justice, Canadian style," he snorted.

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