(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.
Toothbrush
Definition:
(n.) A brush for cleaning the teeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(2) It was concluded that the buccal loss of attachment greater than or equal to 1 mm found in subgroup 2 at age 16 years was associated with few oral deposits and little gingival inflammation and could probably be related to toothbrushing practices.
(3) Aim of the present paper is to verify in a vitro study, the possible disinfection of the toothbrushes with an UV instrument (Dentec 4000).
(4) At Visit 1, each group was evaluated for plaque before brushing with their assigned toothbrush for sixty seconds.
(5) Rising samples yielded higher counts than samples collected after breakfast and toothbrushing.
(6) Aggressive or improper toothbrushing techniques may have a detrimental impact on the gingiva.
(7) In the medium-term experiment, saliva samples collected 4 h after the last use of Meswak or toothbrush showed no significant differences in any of the components examined (calcium, magnesium, chloride, phosphate, IgA, IgG, lactate dehydrogenase and aspartate transaminase).
(8) The main conclusion of this study is that an electric toothbrush is not superior to a manual toothbrush.
(9) According to random selection, subjects' teeth were brushed by trained personnel with either the curved bristle or the conventional toothbrush.
(10) For their oral hygiene, the patients had to use, in the right side toothbrush and dental floss (Control 1), in the left side the oral irrigator alone (Test 1).
(11) These errors include losses of food on cooking and eating utensils and dishware, losses of feces or urine on toilet paper or in collection containers, and losses through sweat, exfoliated skin, hair and nail growth, saliva, menses, blood sampling, toothbrushing, semen, and, for nitrogen, from flatus and respiration.
(12) This study shows that restricting consumption of confectionery and beverages may be effective in preventing dental caries; however, encouragement of toothbrushing may not be effective in limiting dental caries progression.
(13) The improvement of gingival health through toothbrushing, in spite of the presence of calculus, supports the contention that plaque, rather than calculus as a non-inflammatory scale, provides the pathogenic potential.
(14) It was a common problem to remove and replace dentures and many of the dentate elderly resisted assistance with toothbrushing by closing the mouth.
(15) Questions were also fielded on dental behaviours such as preventive visits to the dentist, toothbrushing and flossing.
(16) About 10% of the forms show a frequency of sugar intake higher than 5 per day and in more than 10% the toothbrushing frequency is zero.
(17) We report a 16-year-old girl who accidentally swallowed a toothbrush which was extracted via endoscopy without complications.
(18) Regular dental visits were reported by 86%, 83% declared that they brush their teeth at least twice a day and toothbrushing after breakfast was reported by 51%.
(19) "Suddenly one said, 'I hope you have an open return ticket and your toothbrush with you' and it happened from there," he said.
(20) Oral hygiene habits, particularly daily toothbrushing, improved during the decade and were graded as acceptable.