Dental Research Glossary

The measurable reduction in height of the alveolar crest surrounding a tooth or implant, typically quantified radiograph...

Abbreviation for Case Report Form, the standardised instrument used to collect participant data in a clinical trial.

A clinical trial design in which each participant receives two or more treatments in sequence, serving as their own cont...

A forensic and paediatric dental research method using tooth development stages or eruption patterns to estimate a subje...

A validated psychometric questionnaire used to measure a patient's level of anxiety specifically related to dental treat...

The irreversible loss of dental hard tissue caused by chemical dissolution from intrinsic or extrinsic acids, without ba...

A developmental disturbance of tooth enamel caused by excessive fluoride intake during the period of enamel formation, r...

The soft connective tissue occupying the central cavity of a tooth, containing nerves, blood vessels, and lymphatics res...

An exaggerated, short-lived painful response of exposed dentin to thermal, evaporative, tactile, osmotic, or chemical st...

Microscopic channels traversing the dentine from the pulp cavity to the outer dentine surface, through which odontoblast...

A hereditary developmental disorder of dentin formation that results in discoloured, translucent, and structurally weake...

The interface between the tooth surface and the surrounding gingival tissues, comprising the junctional epithelium and g...

A topically applied substance designed to occlude dentinal tubules or block nerve activity to reduce dentin hypersensiti...

An epidemiological index that quantifies the total caries experience of permanent teeth by summing the number of decayed...

Describing a patient or anatomical region that has lost all natural teeth.

The success or failure status of root canal treatment, assessed by defined radiographic and/or clinical criteria at a sp...

A dental implant fixture surgically placed within the jawbone to serve as an artificial tooth root for the retention of...

Abbreviation for Electric Pulp Test, a diagnostic method that applies a low-level electric current to a tooth to assess...

The progressive and irreversible loss of tooth hard tissue resulting primarily from chemical dissolution by intrinsic or...

Pathological bone loss in the area between the roots of a multi-rooted tooth where they diverge from the root trunk.

The clinical term for the extension of periodontal disease into the area between the roots of a multi-rooted tooth, clas...

A standardised scoring system developed by Löe and Silness (1963) to assess the severity of gingival inflammation at ind...

Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation; a systematic framework for rating the certainty of ev...

A surgical technique in dental research and implantology in which a barrier membrane is placed over a bone defect to exc...