| casting ring | A metal tube in which a refractory mold is made for casting metal dental restorations or appliances. Synonym: casting flask, casting ring. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| casting wax | Any soft solid wax used in dentistry for patterns of all types and for many other purposes; most are basically paraffin but are modified by addition of gum dammar, carnauba wax, or other ingredients, to meet various requirements. Synonym: inlay wax. (05 Mar 2000) |
| centrifugal casting | Casting molten metal into a mold by spinning the metal from a crucible at the end of a revolving arm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ceramo-metal casting | A casting made of alloys containing or excluding precious metals, to which dental porcelain can be fused. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gold casting | A casting made of gold, usually formed to represent and replace lost tooth structure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corrosion casting | A tissue preparation technique that involves the injecting of plastic (acrylates) into blood vessels or other hollow viscera and treating the tissue with a caustic substance. This results in a negative copy or a solid replica of the enclosed space of the tissue that is ready for viewing under a scanning electron microscope. (12 Dec 1998) |
| shadow-casting | Deposition of a film of carbon or certain metals such as palladium, platinum, or chromium on a contoured microscopic object in order to allow the object to be seen in relief with the electron microscope or sometimes with the light microscope. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dental casting investment | <dentistry> Material from which the casting mold is made in the fabrication of gold or cobalt-chromium castings. (boucher's clinical dental terminology, 4th ed, p168) (12 Dec 1998) |
| dental casting technique | <dentistry> The process of producing a form or impression made of metal or plaster using a mold. (12 Dec 1998) |