Category: D

A wire circumferential clasp with back‐to‐back retentive arms.  

The part of the body from which an autogenous graft is obtained. Examples include skin, mucosa, connective tissue, and bone.  

One of many bar attachments that splint teeth or roots together while acting as an abutment for a partial removable dental prosthesis. The bar is straight with parallel sides and a round top and comes in assorted sizes.  

Diagnostic, radiographic, and therapeutic dental charting records of a patient’s soft and hard tissue support for the teeth.  

Distraction osteogenesis.  

Diabetes mellitus.  

The sum of the tapered angles for the divergent opposing walls of a tooth preparation.  

A drawing apart as a surface extends away from a common point. The reverse taper of walls of a preparation for a restoration – divergency. Gradual separation. Gradual separation, used usually in an evolutionary context. A condition in which one eye points directly at the object of interest but the other does not. The process…

Diminution in dimension and/or density of bone, resulting from inadequate loading by physiologic forces. The wasting of muscles after prolonged immobility. This can be seen after lengthy immobilization in a plaster cast, and is particularly severe following paralysis of a limb through nerve injury. Atrophy from immobilization or failure to exercise a body part.  

Pattern in which applied forces are distributed throughout a structure, i.e., pattern of load distribution throughout an implant‐supported fixed cantilever prosthesis.