Category: O

The jaw relation at which the opposing teeth occlude.  

A registration record of maximum intercuspation.  

To bring together; to shut. To bring or close the mandibular teeth into contact with the maxillary teeth. To close up, obstruct, or join together, as bringing the biting surfaces of opposing teeth together.    

A structure that closes an opening, such as a prosthetic appliance used to close an opening in the palate. Small body of tissue attached to the pollen mass in Orchidaceae and derived subfamilies of Apocynaceae; Caruncle (as used by Hooker); Process of ovary wall descending towards the micropyles (as in Plumbago). One of two muscles…

An agent or remedy that lessens or relieves sensibility or pain. Soothing, deadening, dulling. Having the capacity to deaden sensibility of a part or reduce irritability.  

Essential; not facultative; limited to a single life condition; able to survive only in a particular environment or to assume only a particular role, as an obligate anaerobe. (Of a life form or habitat requirement) restricted to this life form or habitat and not occurring as or in any other. Restricted to a certain habitat…

Simple data‐format file that represents 3D geometry alone: the position of each vertex, position of each texture coordinate vertex, normal, and the faces that make each polygon defined as a list of vertices, and texture vertices.  

The tissue lining the oral cavity. Epithelial lining of the oral cavity continuous with the skin of the lips and mucosa of the soft palate and pharynx. The oral mucosa consists of the following. A) Masticatory mucosa: mucosa of the gingiva and hard palate. B) Specialized mucosa: mucosa of the dorsum of the tongue. C)…

A wire or other material used to secure an orthodontic attachment or tooth to an archwire.  

A direct contact, on the light microscopic level, between living bone tissue and an implant. The direct contact between living bone and a functionally loaded dental implant surface without interposed soft tissue at the light microscope level. The clinical manifestation of osseointegration is absence of mobility. The anchoring of prosthetic material into bone.