| auxiliary abutment | A tooth other than the one supporting the direct retainer, assisting in the overall support of a removable partial denture. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| auxiliary | 1. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise. 2. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in), a member of the allied or subsidiary force. 3. A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish. 4. <mathematics> A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| dental auxiliary | <specialist> Personnel whose work is prescribed and supervised by the dentist. (12 Dec 1998) |
| abutment | <dentistry> The teeth on either side of a missing tooth. (08 Jan 1998) |
| splinted abutment | The joining of two or more teeth into a rigid unit by means of fixed restorations to form a single abutment with multiple roots. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediate abutment | A natural tooth, or an implanted tooth substitute, without other natural teeth in proximal contact, used along with the mesial and distal abutment's to support a prosthesis; often called a "pier." (05 Mar 2000) |
| isolated abutment | A lone-standing tooth, or root, used as an abutment with edentulous areas mesial and distal to it. (05 Mar 2000) |