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A Complete Glossary of Dental Definitions

Analgesia

Analgesia is the removal of pain without the loss of consciousness. Although the dentist has many forms of reaching an analgesic state for his patients, the usual means of obtaining this state is with a local anesthetic injection.
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Abscess
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An abscess is a collection of pus in an area

Abutment
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An abutment is an anchor

Acid Etch
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A procedure where a weak acid smeared on your teeth to ready your teeth for brackets. The acid etch helps your brackets stay on better.

Acid Etching
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Acid etching is a process to condition a surface

Acrylic
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A plastic used to false teeth, retainers, and other dental products. Dental acrylic has been tested and thought to be perfectly safe.

Adhesive
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Adhesive is any material that joins or brings into close contact two or more surfaces

Adult Dentition
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Permanent Teeth

Algenate
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A plaster like compound used to take impressions. It tastes awful, but is safe.

Alloplastic
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Alloplastic refers to man-made materials that are sometimes used for tissue augmentation

Alvelous
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A opening in your jaw-bone in which a tooth is attached.

Alveolar
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The bone to which a tooth is attached

Alveolar Bone
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Alveolar bone is the bone that indirectly attaches to the tooth

Alveoloplasty
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Alveoloplasty is the recontouring of the alveolar bone

Amalgam
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An amalgam is a mixture or combination

Analgesia
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Analgesia is the removal of pain without the loss of consciousness

Anesthesia
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Anesthesia means the total or partial loss of sensation

Anesthetic
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A drug which a doctor or dentist uses.

Anomaly
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an abnormality

Anterior
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Anterior means in the front

Anterior Teeth
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Anterior teeth are the 'front' teeth

Antiseptic
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A chemical agent which can be applied to living tissues to destroy germs.

Anxiolysis
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Anxiolysis is the use of pharmacological agents (medicine) to reduce anxiety

Apex
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Apex is the point of culmination

Apicoectomy
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Apicoectomy is the removal of the apex

Appliance
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An appliance is a device that performs a service or function

Arch Wire
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A metal wire which is attached to your brackets to move your teeth.

Arch; dental
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refers to the upper or lower intraoral part of the jaw

Archform
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The shape of the dental arch.

Armamentarium
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A general term for the dental chairs, lights and equipment used by your dentist or orthodontist.

Articulator
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A special holder for models of your teeth

Aspiration
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Removal of fluids from your mouth with an aspirator

Aspirator
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A tube like a straw which the dentist puts in your mouth to suck up all the saliva.

Atom
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An atom is one of the smaller building blocks of all things

Attrition
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Attrition is the loss of tooth structure by mechanical forces from opposing teeth.

Augmentation
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Augmentation means to build up

Autogenous
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Autogenous taken from one part and placed in another part of the same object

Avulsion
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Avulsion means the forcible removal of a body part by trauma or surgery

Key: blue = General Definition green = Dental Specialty brown = Field Of Practice
teal = Dental Procedure violet = Disease orange = Anatomy
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