Category: C

An increase in muscular tension at the same muscle length, as in clenching teeth.  

Type of operation in which the laser emits radiation energy as a constant, uninterrupted stream.  

A suture made with a single strand of suture material, that is begun in the same way as a simple interrupted suture. However, it consists of a series of stitches that are not individually knotted. They are typically used when the wound is in a visible part of the body and thus the stitches will…

A beam that spans over three or more abutments and resists bending when a load or force is applied.  

A metal bar arising from terminal rests of key abutments resting on the cingulums of the mandibular anterior teeth so that it aids in their stabilization and functions as an indirect retainer in a free end distal extension dental prosthesis.  

Communicable by contact; spreading from one to another. A disease that is communicable only on direct contact with an infected person, communicable; communicable disease. Able to be transmitted by touching an infected person or objects which an infected person has touched. An infection or disease that is communicable by contact. A contagious disease is one…

The area on the proximal surface of a tooth that touches an adjacent tooth. According to Levinger, a stage of a relationship in which people seek common ground and test mutual attraction. The side of a tooth that faces the neighboring tooth.  

Scanners that probe the subject through physical touch, while the object is in contact with or resting on a precision flat surface plate, ground and polished to a specific maximum surface roughness. Where the object to be scanned is not flat or cannot rest stably on a flat surface, it is supported and held firmly…

The formation of new bone directly on a dental implant, following the migration of osteogenic progenitor cells through the fibrin clot matrix to the implant surface.  

The joint deliberation, usually for explanatory or diagnostic purposes, between a patient and practitioner, or two or more practitioners. The process of a third party assisting a person, group, or organization to use internal and external resources to make decisions and affect change. In medical or dental practice, the act of requesting advice from another…