What's the difference between furcation and fuscation?
Furcation
Definition:
(n.) A branching like a. fork.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following a baseline examination, the furcation-involved molars were randomly assigned in each patient to either a test or a control treatment procedure.
(2) Freeze-dried crushed cortical bone allografts were implanted into widemouthed three-wall, two-wall, one-wall, combination, and furcation defects.
(3) Attempts to save parts of teeth go back 100 years or more, but it is the increased predictability of success of endodontic therapy and the increased sophistication of periodontal treatment that have given us the means to save molars with furcation problems that, otherwise, would be lost.
(4) Following initial preparation, full thickness flaps were raised in the area being treated, the bone and furcation defects debrided of granulomatous tissue, and the involved root surfaces mechanically and chemically prepared.
(5) A practical technique is presented and two case reports illustrate its use as an apical plug and a furcation perforation plug.
(6) Techniques for new attachment using the principle of guided tissue regeneration with barrier membranes have become accepted as a method for treating teeth with severe osseous defects and furcation involvement.
(7) Gore-Tex periodontal material was used, and the amount of furcation fill and the surface area corresponding to new connective tissue attachment and new bone were evaluated.
(8) However, when furcation aspects alone were assessed, it was found that the more experienced operators obtained a calculus-free surface only 68% of the time with an open approach.
(9) The mean distance from the beginning of the root trunk to the furcation was 2.1 mm.
(10) The difference in thickness of dentin in the furcation of pulpotomized and non-pulpotomized teeth was not statistically significant.
(11) Primarily 828 furcation involved teeth (87.7%) could be saved.
(12) Enamel pearls and islets were most often situated on the buccal surface of the tooth neck along the inter-radicular groove and enamel drops on the buccal surface of the furcation roof.
(13) One-hundred twenty experimental furcation perforations were created in the mandibular and maxillary premolars and molars of six rhesus monkeys.
(14) The study, however, also revealed that the size of the furcation defect as well as the shape of the surrounding alveolar bone were factors that determined the outcome of this kind of treatment.
(15) This investigation was designed to determine the reproducibility of probing pocket depths in maxillary facial and mandibular facial and lingual grade II and III molar furcation sites.
(16) In order to study the histological structure of healthy and pathological furcations in the rat, two groups of animals were submitted to two different diets: one normal and one rich in sucrose.
(17) By comparing the individual 10 drawings of the maxillary and mandibular first molars, respectively, some morphological characteristics of the furcation areas could be described.
(18) On the other site the special curettes for root planing in the furcation region have a smaller curvature radius as that of the root faces.
(19) Two-rooted bicuspids furcate at 7.9 mm and have a concavity 0.44 mm deep at the CEJ which increases to 1.08 mm at the 4.7 mm level.
(20) This study compared the effectiveness of two sonic and two ultrasonic scaler tips on artificial calculus removal from the furcations of mandibular first and second molars.