Dental Practices Glossary

The direct structural and functional bond between living bone tissue and the surface of a load-bearing implant, essentia...

Abbreviation for 'periapical', referring to a type of intraoral dental radiograph that captures the full length of one o...

Relating to or directed toward the palate; used to describe the inner surface of upper teeth facing the roof of the mout...

An inflammatory condition affecting the soft and hard tissues surrounding an osseointegrated dental implant, characteris...

Relating to or affecting the area around the apex (tip) of a tooth's root.

Inflammation of the soft tissue surrounding the crown of a partially erupted tooth, most commonly associated with mandib...

Relating to the structures surrounding and supporting the teeth, including the gums, alveolar bone, and periodontal liga...

The fibrous connective tissue that suspends and anchors a tooth within its alveolar bone socket.

Relating to or situated around the root of a tooth, used to describe pathological conditions, tissues, or radiographic f...

The artificial tooth in a fixed dental bridge that replaces a missing natural tooth and spans the edentulous space.

The distance in millimetres from the gingival margin to the base of the gingival sulcus or periodontal pocket, measured...

In dental practice, a professional cleaning procedure performed to remove plaque, calculus, and stain from the teeth to...

The soft connective tissue at the centre of a tooth, containing nerves, blood vessels, and lymphatics.

The complete removal of the dental pulp from both the coronal and radicular portions of a tooth, effectively the root ca...

A procedure in which the coronal portion of the dental pulp is removed while the radicular pulp is preserved, most commo...

A hybrid restorative material combining the fluoride-releasing properties of glass ionomer cement with the improved aest...

Abbreviation for 'root surface debridement', a non-surgical periodontal procedure in which deposits and biofilm are remo...

A thin sheet of latex or non-latex material stretched across the operative field to isolate one or more teeth from the o...

A preventive and hygiene procedure involving the removal of supragingival calculus and plaque deposits followed by polis...

A standardised set of colour reference tabs used in restorative and prosthetic dentistry to communicate the precise toot...

Abbreviation for Stainless Steel Crown; a prefabricated full-coverage metal restoration used predominantly in paediatric...

A preformed metal crown used primarily in paediatric dentistry to restore primary or young permanent molars with extensi...

A collective term for conditions affecting the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) and the muscles of mastication, often causi...

An umbrella term covering the progressive, irreversible loss of dental hard tissue from causes other than dental caries...