Category: F
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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…
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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.
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Fibrinous e
Characterized by an abundance of fibrinogen resulting in subsequent fibrin formation at the site of injury.
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Fully adjustable a
Articulating instrument permitting the simulation of three‐dimensional mandibular movement and capable of accepting three-dimensional jaw registration records.