Category: F
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Frenectomy
Surgical detachment and/or excision of a frenulum from its attachment into the mucoperiosteal covering of the alveolar process, especially the release of ankyloglossia. An operation to remove a frenum. Surgical cutting of any frenum, usually of the tongue.
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Fremitus
A vibration that can be observed visibly or is perceivable on palpation; in dentistry, the movement of a tooth that is felt when the teeth come into contact. Vibrations or trembling in part of someone’s body, felt by the doctor’s hand or heard through a stethoscope. Flutter that can be felt by the hand of…
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Freeze‐dried bone allograft (FDBA)
Most commonly used allograft, which is frozen and freeze‐dried (lyophilized). It may form bone or participate in new bone formation by osteoinduction or osteoconduction. It is effective when used with barrier membranes. The freezing and freeze‐drying process essentially lowers the antigenicity.
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Freeway space
The space between the maxillary and mandibular teeth when the mandible is suspended in the postural position. The gap between the upper and lower teeth when the mandible is in a comfortably resting position.
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Free‐standing implant
A dental implant that is not connected to a natural tooth or splinted to adjacent teeth or implants.
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Free soft tissue autograft (syn)
Gingival graft.
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Free mandibular movement
Any mandibular movement made without interference. Any uninhibited movement of the mandible.
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Free gingival margin
The unattached gingiva surrounding the teeth in a collar‐like fashion and demarcated from the attached gingiva by a shallow linear depression, termed the free gingival groove.
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Free gingival graft
Soft tissue graft taken from the patient’s palate that includes the epithelium.
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Free gingiva
That part of the gingiva that surrounds the tooth and is not directly attached to the tooth surface. The unattached portion of the gingiva. It forms part of the wall of the fissure surrounding the anatomical crown of a tooth.