| dental implant |
A small metal pin placed inside the jawbone to mimic the root of a tooth. Dental implants can be used to help anchor a false tooth or teeth, or a crown or bridge.
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| dentine |
ivory=like substance beneath the enamel, usually constituting he bulk of a tooth.
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| dental formula |
A convenient way of designating the number and arrangement of mammalian teeth; for example: I 3/3 C 1/1 P4/4 M 3/3 = 44 the ancestral complement of eutherian teeth. The letters indicate incisors, canines, premolars in upper and lower jaw in one side of the skull. The number after the equal sign indicates the full complement of teeth in both sides of the skull.
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| dentate |
L. dentatus, toothed. Dentate nucleus of cerebellum; dentate gyrus of hippocampal formation.
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| dentition |
1. the kind, number, and arrangement of the teeth of man and animals. 2. the development and cutting or eruption of teeth (Morris 1992).
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