(1) Electron photomicrographs were made of surfaces of a microfilled and a hybrid composite resin restorative material polished by various reciprocal-action polishing procedures, including several types of polishing pastes used with nonabrasive plastic tips.
(2) In the absence of any reliable and biological product capable to seal efficiently the open tubules, only nonabrasive hygiene methods can preserve the integrity of cervical dental tissues.
(3) Necessary resealing results in thicker layers of sealer in the nonabrased areas, as determined with the three above-mentioned preparations.
Scratchy
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by scratches.
Example Sentences:
(1) That cameo seemed horribly emblematic of a thoroughly underwhelming opening half which ended unadorned by a single shot on target, but almost imperceptibly something was shifting, and Klopp’s demeanour slowly shifted from jovially laid-back to scratchy and irritable.
(2) All round Europe there have been political earthquakes in a volatile anti-politics age: the surprise is that Britain’s scratchy, irascible electorate hasn’t expressed its underlying anger that ordinary people paid the price for the bankers’ crash.
(3) Joseph Morpurgo's solo hour starts with scratchy old American TV footage.
(4) But as expected, the scratchy blankets are covered in hairs, the food is poor and the bathroom horrible (we queue to clean our teeth at the one working tap while a man washes his feet at it).
(5) And they took me into a theatre, and I saw this scratchy, black and white duke with no sound and a terrible track and all this camera noise of a movie that lasted three and a half hours at that time or something, and everybody was speaking a different language.
(6) Hard and scratchy foods also are consumed frequently.
(7) By setting aside the past, this was the day Miliband took full command of his party, a shadow cabinet behind him no longer scratchy with a few doubters.
(8) Dryness was reported more frequently than the symptoms scratchy and watery (p less than 0.001).
(9) Three months later, Stern was holding a conference call with reporters on a scratchy phone line from Havana.
(10) In a scratchy first half it took 25 minutes for Argentina to create a chance, Higuaín heading over from Messi’s whipped free-kick, but it was the Swiss who had the better opening two minutes later, Granit Xhaka shooting low but straight at Sergio Romero from a Shaqiri cutback.
(11) In his scratchy address, the then-head of News Corp in Europe and Asia laid into the BBCarguing: "The scope of its activities and ambitions is chilling."
(12) One aspect of England's scratchy record in World Cup penalty shoot-outs since they won the trophy in 1966 perhaps doesn't require a knowledge of high-level mathematics.
(13) What has been happening in West Everton this morning – this scritchy-scratchy Vivaldi – is more than just a music workshop.
(14) Serosis, sweating, scratchy clothes, allergy, infection, scratching, allergic contact dermatitis, anxiety, and coexisting disease are potential flare factors.
(15) Mourinho spoke about the importance of practising the transitions from attack to defence and defence to attack, and introduced to public consciousness the concept of “resting on the ball”, passing it around at the back to give players time to recuperate, but his football was scratchy and, frankly, a little dull.
(16) He even says "I'm killing indie rap" at one point, and it's true: with his mellow flow and lyrics about his tough street life over scratchy and hissy beats from Doom, Dilla and DJ Premier – which were themselves based on ancient crate-dusty soul and jazz vinyl samples – Nehru is the anti-Earl Sweatshirt .
(17) Updated at 3.34pm BST 3.19pm BST 68th over: England 157-6 (Ali 51, Prior 8) Prasad returns, and engages Ali's bat more than Eranga, but he's right on top of things, playing the ball almost from in the crease; though this has been a slow innings, it's not been a scratchy one; he's played very few false shots.
(18) Milton's announcement about the consultation came towards the end of a scratchy debate in which Dorries said Cameron had initially encouraged her.
(19) I think we were just scratchy and hackles up and defensive.
(20) The child with no complaints other than discharge probably has a conjunctivitis, while the child with photophobia and a scratchy sensation should make one search for either a foreign body or a corneal problem.