Category: C

An organic solvent (chloroform or ether) that contains a mixture of copal resin or other synthetic resins and is used to protect a tooth from the constituents of the restorative material(s). An ethereal solution of gum or synthetic resin that dries rapidly and is used to seal a filling in a carious cavity or to…

Applying a caustic substance, electric current, hot instrument, or other agent to burn or destroy tissue and control bleeding during surgery. From the Greek term kauterion, meaning branding iron. An instrument or chemical that destroys tissue, as a therapeutic measure. A hot instrument or corrosive chemical used to destroy tissue or to coagulate blood in…

The negative pole in electrolysis. The negative electrode from which electrons are emitted; the opposite of the anode or positive pole. Negative electrode; the cathode is usually black and is marked with an N or a minus (—) sign. The negative electrode serves as the point of origin for the flow of an electromagnetic current.…

Substance that accelerates a chemical reaction without affecting the properties of the materials involved. A substance that speeds up a reaction without undergoing any permanent chemical change. Any substance (entity), either of protein or of nonproteinaceous nature, that increases the rate of a chemical reaction, without being consumed itself in the reaction. In the bio-sciences,…

Computed axial tomography scan.  

Computed axial tomography.    

A wax composite with acceptable characteristics that can be used for making wax patterns that are placed in an investing material. Then, once the investment has set, heat is applied and the wax is “lost” from the investment. The investment is then subject to the casting process where a liquid is poured into the investment…

A metal cylinder in which a refractory pattern is made and used in the casting process for a dental prosthesis.  

A reproduction of an object formed by pouring or injecting a fluid into a mold that then becomes a solid. The forming of an object in a mold.  

Regarding dentistry, a glass‐ceramic material that can be cast using the lost‐wax method.