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Individual’s perceived fulfillment of a need or want; can be measured by obtaining reports or ratings from patients about services received from an organization, hospital, physician, or healthcare provider.  

An array of active emitters or passive reflectors that are attached to a patient to enable their localization within the operative field by an overhead detector.  

Record of the patient’s medical and dental histories.  

Clinical examination of the patient, including extraoral and intraoral findings.  

Process by which a patient’s condition is determined. Called also patient assessment.  

Descriptive term referring to the array of questionnaires, interview schedules and other related methods of assessing health, illness, and benefits of healthcare interventions from the patient’s perspective. A patient‐based outcome measure that addresses constructs such as health‐related quality of life, subjective health status, and functional status; used as a primary or secondary endpoint in clinical…

A disease entity; a morbid condition, the current state of being with disease.  

Specifically distinctive, characteristic or symptomatic of a disease. A sign or symptom on which a diagnosis can be made. A symptom or group of symptoms that are specifically diagnostic or typical of a disease. Referring to a symptom which is typical and characteristic, and which indicates that someone has a particular disease. Describing a sign…

An abnormal occlusal relationship with the potential to produce pathologic changes in the masticatory system.  

The mechanism by which a disease starts and progresses. The cellular events and reactions that occur in the development of disease. The development of disease; pathologic mechanisms. The origin, production and development of a morbid or diseased condition. An agent that is the causative agent of a disease; for example, bacteria. The ways in which…