The Savon Tooth-o-Pedia: Glossary of Dental Definitions

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A Complete Glossary of Dental Definitions

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Insurance is a third party payment for a health care related treatment. Dental insurance, like most other kinds of health insurance, works on the promise for a fee, called an insurance premium, to pay various amount of costs incurred for covered health care treatment for a set period of time. Insurance almost never covers the complete cost of the services and, if not used within the premium period, a new premium is due to continue the insurance coverage.

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Impacted tooth: An unerupted tooth that somehow has gotten stuck and cannot come in.
Implants: Implantology is the science of placing an artificial device in the maxilla (upper) and/or mandible (lower) jaw bone to support the replacement of missing aspects of the human dentition (missing teeth).
Impression: An impression is an imprint of something
Impressions: The first step in making a model of your teeth.
Incisal: The biting edge of your centrals and laterals.
Incisor: Another name for the centrals and laterals
Inclination: The angle of the long axis of a tooth from a particular line of reference; the tilt or tip of a tooth.
Infection: An infection is an ingress of bacterium that cause tissue damage

Ingress: Ingress means entrance
Inlay: Inlay means to insert within
Insurance-health: Insurance is a third party payment for a health care related treatment
Interproximal: the space between adjacent teeth.
Interproximal Stripper: A device used to remove some of the enamel from the spaces between your teeth.
Intraoral: Intraoral means in the mouth
Ion: An ion is an electrically charged part of an atom
Irrigation: The technique of using a solution to wash out your mouth and to flush debris.

Key:	blue = General Definition	green = Dental Specialty	brown = Field Of Practice
Key:	teal = Dental Procedure	violet = Disease	orange = Anatomy

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