overlay denture

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• overlay denture — a removable tooth supported partial or complete denture whose built in secondary copings overlay or telescope over the primary copings that fit over the prepared natural crowns, posts, or studs. Called overdenture and telescopic d …   Medical dictionary

• Denture — An artificial set of teeth that can be removed. * * * 1. An artificial substitute for missing natural teeth and adjacent tissues. SYN: artificial dentition. 2. Sometimes used to denote the dentition of animals. bar joint d. SYN: overlay d..… …   Medical dictionary

• telescopic denture — overlay d …   Medical dictionary

• overdenture — SYN: overlay denture. * * * over·den·ture (o″vər denґchər) overlay denture …   Medical dictionary

• Prosthesis — An artificial substitute or replacement of a part of the body such as a tooth, eye, a facial bone, the palate, a hip, a knee or another joint, the leg, an arm, etc. A prosthesis is designed for functional or cosmetic reasons or both. A prosthesis …   Medical dictionary

• Dolder bar — an attachment designed to secure and stabilize an overlay denture; it consists of a bar transected by several screw holes, which are used to attach it to the jaw, and is ovoid to allow some rotational movement of the denture …   Medical dictionary

• plate — plate1 plateless, adj. platelike, adj. /playt/, n., v., plated, plating. n. 1. a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten. 2. the contents of such a dish; plateful. 3. an entire course of a meal… …   Universalium

• plate — [[t]pleɪt[/t]] n. v. plat•ed, plat•ing 1) a shallow, usu. circular dish from which food is eaten 2) the contents of such a dish; plateful 3) an entire course of a meal served on such a dish: a vegetable plate[/ex] 4) the food and service for one… …   From formal English to slang

• plate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. platter, dish, utensil, tray; slab, sheet, planch; coating, veneer, coat; denture. See receptacle, layer. v. t. overlay, laminate; gild, silver, platinize; veneer; electroplate. See covering, layer.… …   English dictionary for students

• medium — 1. A means; that through which an action is performed. 2. A substance through which impulses or impressions are transmitted. 3. SYN: culture m.. 4. The liquid holding a substance in solution or suspension. 5. Any of the substances in which a… …   Medical dictionary

• Nordic Institute of Dental Materials — AS Formation 1972 Type Research Development Headquarters …   Wikipedia