Implants
Type of Implant is surgically embedded into the bone.
What is Endosteal?
Rounded bony protrusion behind the last molar in the maxilla are.
What is Tuberosity?
A temporary custom-made coverage that resembles the tooth being restored.
What is a Custom Provisional?
A mixture of two or more metals that are dissolved with each other when in the liquid state.
What is Alloy?
A chemical agent used to prepare a tooth surface for a dental material.
What is an Etchant?
The process of introducing certain metals, such as titanium, into living bone and forming a bio-compatible bond with living bone.
What is Osseointegration?
The body's processes of eliminating existing bone or hard tissue structure.
What is Resorption?
Provisional coverage designed in a shell-like form.
What is a Polymer Crown?
An Alloy, with one of the constituents being mercury.
What is Amalgam?
What is Insulating?
What is a Transosteal?
What is Mastication?
Referring to temporary coverage made for crown or bridge preparations, and worn during casting preparation.
What is a Provisional?
The foundation that binds a substance together.
What is a Matrix?
It smells like clove, and it is a colorless liquid used for its soothing qualities.
What is Eugenol?
A clear acrylic template positioned over the alveolar ridge to guide in the proper angulation, and axis for drilling into the bone and placing the implant.
What is a Stent?
Having the jaws in a position that produces a centrally related occlusion.
What is Centric?
A thin aluminum crown made from a medium hard material for good durability.
What is a Stainless Steel Crown?
What is Porcelain?
A very thin layer of debris on newly prepared dentin.
What is a Smear Layer?
A permanent replacement of one tooth or multiple teeth with a fixture and an abutment that are anchored into the bone or surrounding structure for the purpose of supporting a denture, bridge, or single tooth.
What is an Implant?
The surgical shaping and smoothing of the margins of the tooth socket after extraction of the tooth, generally in preparation for the placement of a prosthesis.
What is Alveoplasty?
Made from a hard plastic, tooth-colored material used for anterior teeth.
What is Polycarbonate?
To restore or bring back to its natural appearance.
What is Restorative?
To remove something completely is to.
What is Obliterating?