(a.) Of or pertaining to the odontoid bone or to the odontoid process.
Example Sentences:
(1) All patients had the apex of the odontoid apophysis above McGregor's line, 4 mm in the case 9, and 10 mm or more in the others.
(2) Myelograms showed spinal stenosis as a result of atlanto-axial dislocation, or anterior extradural compression from overgrown cartilage and posteriorly dislocated tip of shortened odontoid process.
(3) During flexion muscle forces and joint reaction forces increase, except the force between the odontoid and the ligamentum transversum atlantis.
(4) This included six patients (in 10%) who had subluxation accompanied by fracture of the odontoid without apparent trauma.
(5) Our experience of 12 acute odontoid fractures, managed by this technique, is presented.
(6) Direct anterior screw fixation of odontoid fractures is indicated in type II and occasionally type III fractures according to the Anderson and d'Alonzo classification.
(7) The may be divided into 2 groups; (a) 15 cases of abnormalities of the odontoid process, i. e. 7 cases of os odontoideum, 7 cases of fractured odontoid, 1 cases of deformed odontoid, and (b) 15 cases with no abnormalities of the odontoid process.
(8) Recent information indicates that patients with upper cervical anomalies such as atlantooccipital fusion, anomalies of the odontoid, or the transverse atlantal ligament have a great propensity to develop early instability and neurologic problems secondary to minor traumatic events.
(9) Magnetic resonance imaging of a 32-year-old male revealed the deformed skull and almost horizontal basal angle and the elongated and upwardly shifted brain stem caused by the tip of the odontoid process of the second cervical vertebra invaginating the base of the skull.
(10) In 7 patients having the anterior type of the cranio-cervical dysplasia we performed a transoral resection of the elevated odontoid process.
(11) Particular care should be taken with those who have both atlantoaxial instability and odontoid hypoplasia or accessory ossicles as they are at particular risk of spinal cord damage.
(12) Generally, fracture of the odontoid process in young children can be treated by proper immobilization.
(13) The latter suggests severe conditions and seems to be a useful indicator for the diagnosis of upward migration of the odontoid in our study.
(14) Both patients showed upward movement of the axis, relative to the foramen magnum, which has been termed 'vertical subluxation of the odontoid' or 'cranial settling'.
(15) Surgical treatment of odontoid fractures has usually been carried out by C1-2 arthrodesis rather than by fracture fixation.
(16) The spinal cord was markedly compressed between the odontoid process and the posterior arch of the atlas.
(17) Three groups of parasomnia-ICU relationships were identified: i) Parasomnias originating in ICUs, stroke-induced (n = 3); ii) Admission to ICUs resulting from parasomnia-induced injuries: C2 odontoid process fracture and C3 spinous process fracture with severe concussion (n = 2); iii) Parasomnias in patients admitted to ICUs for various other medical problems (n = 15).
(18) An analysis of the cervical spine of 508 normal children aged between 3 and 18.9 years provided data for the normal development of the odontoid process and its relationship to the anterior arch of the atlas.
(19) An anthropometric study of the atlas and axis was undertaken to determine spinal canal diameters, the degree of narrowing with rotation, and odontoid tilt.
(20) Retrospective study of 100 cases of rheumatoid arthritis and the data from the literature demonstrate the rarity of these lesions, the last stage of the odontoid erosions which are much commoner.
Tooth
Definition:
(n.) One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.
(n.) Fig.: Taste; palate.
(n.) Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.
(n.) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.
(n.) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.
(n.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant
(n.) one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.
(n.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.
(v. t.) To furnish with teeth.
(v. t.) To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.
(v. t.) To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) 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.
(3) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(4) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
(5) In the aetiology the Periodontitis apicalis and wounds after tooth extractions are in the highest position.
(6) It is of special interest because it presented as a periapical pathosis associated with a nonvital tooth and emphasizes the value of routine histopathologic examination of tissue.
(7) An 11-year clinical and radiographic follow-up of an avulsed tooth, replanted within 15 minutes, has been presented.
(8) It has been 40 years since the first community in the United States added a regulated amount of fluoride to its public water supply to prevent tooth decay.
(9) The odontogenic origin of ameloblastomas is based largely on the similarity in histologic appearance between the tumor and the developing tooth organ.
(10) 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).
(11) The primary aim of future work must still be directed toward preventing the formation of a gap between the restoration and the tooth.
(12) This experiment is to observe the effect of pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) on orthodontic tooth movement of guinea pigs through transmission electron microscope (TEM).
(13) By scoring every section of a tooth in this way, an overview was obtained of the location of all caries lesions in the occlusal surface.
(14) In order to clarify the development of mandibular movements associated with growth and development of the stomatognathic system, we compared the mandibular movements of children with normal occlusion at different Hellman's dental age between IIA and IIIB, during tooth tapping movements using the following 7 different kinds of frequency; ad lib.
(15) It is not same to the stainless steel wire of traditional removable appliances which must be activated every time to produce a little tooth movement.
(16) Noxious conditioning stimulation of a tooth led to a temporary decrease of the threshold for the jaw-opening reflex elicited from a contralateral or adjacent tooth; only conditioning stimulation at an intensity producing a marked arousal reaction was effective in this respect.
(17) The tooth also gave a positive response to pulp-testing procedures, even though no new tissue could be demonstrated histologically.
(18) In eight consecutive patients referred to the University of Queensland Dental School for investigation of tooth surface loss, six had no measurable quantities of resting whole saliva, four had low values for stimulated saliva flow rates, and only two patients had buffer capacities within the normal range.
(19) (a) unaltered tooth, (b) access preparation, (c) instrumentation, (d) obturation, and (e) MOD cavity preparation; or 2.
(20) Probit analysis was used to derive the median age of tooth emergence.