(a.) Adapted for cutting; of or pertaining to the incisors; incisive; as, the incisor nerve; an incisor foramen; an incisor tooth.
(n.) One of the teeth in front of the canines in either jaw; an incisive tooth. See Tooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggests that molars do not maintain a fixed relationship to incisors over time, and extreme care must be taken to standardize an experiment to a specific body weight when using this method.
(2) After loss of permanent central incisors the treatment of choice could be either orthodontic closure or maintenance of the gap for a replacement-prosthetic, autotransplantation or implant.
(3) The roots of the incisor teeth should, if possible, be placed accurately in this zone and a method of achieving this is suggested.
(4) Blood flow changes in the dental pulp of lower canine teeth of mature cats and incisors of mature rats were investigated with simultaneous laser Doppler flowmetry and local 125I-clearance (wash-out) during electrical sympathetic stimulation, efferent stimulation of n. alveolaris inferior (IAN) (cats) and i.a.
(5) Maxillary and mandibular incisors and premolars of three rhesus monkeys were used.
(6) A case history is presented of a 10-year-old patient, who accidentally injured her maxillary central incisor.
(7) The results suggest that there is a general tendency for tooth mortality to be lower in the present survey and this change is particularly noticeable for maxillary incisor and canine teeth.
(8) Erosion was observed on all teeth, but was commonest on the upper incisors, canines and premolars, and severest on palatal surfaces.
(9) The ability to perceive thickness differences between the incisors was more accurate after 1 hour's chewing than normally.
(10) The localization of alkaline phosphatases in dentinogenically active rat incisor odontoblasts was studied by means of subcellular fractionation and electron microscopical histochemistry.
(11) Orthodontic closure of the space from both sides was performed with fixed appliance, leaving the remaining central incisor in the midline.
(12) Monkey incisor teeth were pulpotomized in groups of 10.
(13) Maximal and submaximal bite forces were measured at the incisor and right and left first molar bite positions.
(14) 16 maxillary and mandibular permanent lateral incisors of four dogs aged from 5 to 7 months were immediately replanted without endodontic treatment.
(15) To study tooth development longitudinally, the timing of the beginning of calcification of one maxillary central incisor was assessed from occlusal X-rays taken between the ages of 2 and 18 months in 107 of the above mentioned 131 subjects.
(16) Four weeks after replantation, a more than threefold increase in PBF was measured in premolars with two roots, while PBF in premolars with one root and incisors was consistently reduced to an average of 40% of the controls.
(17) The reproducibility of this surgical technique was demonstrated as well as its usefulness in combination with survey sections for multi-method investigations of rat incisor enamel formation and mineralization.
(18) From each sample was counted the number of odontoclasts appearing on the root surface and measured the volume of the root in the maxillary deciduous incisor.
(19) The results indicate that the tongue-to-teeth contact area of each sound differ from the others, however, it's range is confined within cervical half of lingual surface of incisors and lingual cusps of molars.
(20) GAP-43-like immunoreactivity in developing and mature incisor and canine tooth pulp nerve fibers in the cat was examined with fluorescence immunohistochemistry and pre-embedding immunogold electron microscopy.
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.