Category: C

A snapping or grating noise and/or sensation in a joint during movement; related to the temporomandibular joint, a crackling sound made when one opens and closes the jaw; the noise made when the ends of fractured bone rub together. Crackling sound, such as that produced by the grating of ends of a broken bone. A…

Property of a material, usually metal, to deform or elongate under pressure that is either cyclic or constant. The time-dependent plastic deformation of a material under a static load or constant stress. In dentistry, creep may be destructive to dental amalgam restoration. In osteopathic medicine, creep is used to alter the responsiveness of tissues to…

Multiple superficial cracks or loss of surface integrity that may or may not progress into complete fractures. Minute fissures on the surface of natural or artificial teeth.  

A saucer‐shaped defect of soft tissue or bone, often seen interdentally. A circular depression with an elevated area at the periphery.  

Extraoral restoration replacing a portion of the cranium or face and retained by skin‐penetrating implants or adhesives.  

Bone taken from any of the bones surrounding the brain.  

Any of the bones surrounding the brain, comprising the paired bones (i.e., parietal and temporal) and the unpaired bones (i.e., occipital, frontal, sphenoid, and ethmoid). Also called calvarial bone. One of the bones in the skull. Osseous structure of the head including the frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, sphenoid, ethmoid, nasal, vomer, and lacrimal bones, and…

Commercially pure titanium.  

Instrument or device used to remove excess bone growth over a cover screw.