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Removal of bone or a portion of bone, usually with rotary instrumentation using a diamond or steel bur to reshape or recontour bone to conform to better bone health by itself or around the neck of a tooth. A surgical operation in which a bone, or a piece of bone, is removed.  

Bony, osseous.  

The formation of bone or a bony substance. The conversion of fibrous tissue or of cartilage into bone or a bony substance. The process by which bone grows in the body. The presence of bone formation. A process occurring during childhood until cartilaginous tissue is gradually replaced by bony tissue. The process by which bone…

rocedures to modify bone support altered by periodontal disease, either by reshaping the alveolar process to achieve physiologic form without the removal of alveolar supporting bone, or by the removal of some alveolar bone, thus changing the position of the crestal bone relative to the tooth root.  

Reestablishment of continuity of osseous tissue, usually restoring form and function.  

Restoration of form and function of deficient osseous tissue.  

Reestablishment of form and function of deficient osseous tissue, aimed at restitution.  

Restoration of original osseous tissue through recapitulation of embryologic events.  

The apparent direct attachment or connection of osseous tissue to an inert, alloplastic material without intervening connective tissue. The process and resultant apparent direct connection of an exogenous material’s surface and the host bone tissues, without intervening fibrous connective tissue. The interface between alloplastic materials and bone.  

A benign fibroosseous lesion in which the periapical bone of vital teeth is replaced first by a fibrous type of connective tissue and then by an osseocementoid tissue.