Glossary

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  • Releasing i

    Incision made to increase access to alveolar bone, enhance flap mobility, facilitate lateral or coronal flap advancement, limit the inclusion of nondiseased sites in the surgical field, and/or decrease tension on retracted flaps.  

  • Internal (inverse, reverse, or inverted)

    An acute or oblique surgical incision angled toward the tooth surface in a coronal‐to‐apical direction which is intended to reduce the thickness or amount of mucogingival tissue. In a position opposed to an original direction.  

  • Incision

    A cut made in soft tissue. A cut made in the body during surgery. A wound made with a sharp instrument. A cut in a person’s body made by a surgeon using a scalpel, or any cut made with a sharp knife or razor. Slit or opening made by cutting, as with a scalpel. A…

  • Incisal guide pin

    Adjustable rod attached to one member of an articulator that contacts the guide table on the opposing member to maintain the degree of cast and jaw separation determined in the mouth.  

  • Incisal guide angle

    Anatomically, the angle formed by the intersection of the plane of occlusion and a line within the sagittal plane determined by the incisal edges of the maxillary and mandibular central incisors when the teeth are in maximum intercuspation. On an articulator, that angle formed, in the sagittal plane, between the plane of reference and the…

  • Incisal guide

    The part of an articulator that maintains the incisal guide angle (GPT‐4).  

  • Incisal guidance

    The influence of the contacting surfaces of the mandibular and maxillary anterior teeth on mandibular movements. The influences of the contacting surfaces of the guide pin and guide table on articulator movements.  

  • Incisal

    Incisal

    Cutting surface of incisors or canines.  

  • Incipient

    Beginning to exist; coming into existence. Just beginning or in its early stages.    

  • Incidence

    Rate with which new events or cases occur during a certain period of time. Compare: Prevalence. The number of new cases of a disorder that occurs during a specified time period. The frequency with which a disease occurs. The rate of new cases of a disease in a specific population. The number of new cases…