Category: F

  • Facebow

    A caliper‐like instrument used to record the spatial relationship of the maxillary arch to some anatomic reference point or points and then transfer this relationship to an articulator; it orients the dental cast in the same relationship to the opening axis of the articulator. Customarily, the anatomic references are the mandibular condyles transverse horizontal axis…

  • Fabrication

    The building, making, or constructing of a restoration. Pertaining to imaginary events as though they were true without intent to deceive. A deliberately false statement told as if it were true.  

  • Fibrinous e

    Characterized by an abundance of fibrinogen resulting in subsequent fibrin formation at the site of injury.  

  • Fully adjustable a

    Articulating instrument permitting the simulation of three‐dimensional mandibular movement and capable of accepting three-dimensional jaw registration records.