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Used to elevate of pick out the remaining fractured root tips.
Root tip picks
Surgical implement used to incise, or cut, tissues.
Scalpel
Oral condition in which a tooth is partially to fully covered by gingival tissue.
Soft tissue impaction
Surrounding the mouth
Circumoral
Implant surgically embedded into the bone.
Endosteal
Artificial teeth attached to anchors that have been surgically embedded into the bone or surrounding structures.
Implant
Attachment of healthy bone to a dental implant.
Osseointegration
Implant inserted through the inferior border of the mandible.
Transosteal
Surgical separation of a multirooted tooth through the furcation area.
Hemi-section
Application of dental material to a cavity preparation with an exposed or near pulpal exposure.
Pulp cap
Placement of a medicament over a partially exposed pulp.
Indirect pulp cap
Infectious condition in which the pulp is incapable of healing, which would then require root canal therapy.
Irreversible pulpitis
Process of filling a root canal.
Obturation
Hammer-like device used to apply pressure to chisels.
Mallet
The surgical removal of the pulp, usually in a primary tooth.
Pulpectomy
The act of feeling with the hands or fingers for diagnostic purposes.
Palpation
Examination technique that involves tapping on the incisal or occlusal surface of a tooth to assess tooth vitality.
Percussion
Making a hole, as in breaking through and extending beyond the apex of a tooth.
Perforation
An inflammatory reaction to pulpal infection.
Periradicular abscess
Inflammation of the dental pulp.
Pulpitits
An inflammatory reaction to bacteria trapped in the periodontal sulcus.
Periodontal abscess
Referring to the area of nerves, blood vessels, and tissues that surrounds the root of a tooth.
Periradicular
An inflammatory reaction to pulpal infection.
Periradicular abscess
– A cyst that develops at or near the root of a necrotic tooth.
Periradicular cyst
Removal of the coronal portion of a vital pulp from a tooth.
Pulpotomy