Category: S
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Sinus graft (syn)
Maxillary antroplasty, sinus augmentation, sinus elevation, sinus lift, subantral augmentation. Augmentation of the antral floor with autogenous bone and/or bone substitutes to accommodate dental implant insertion.
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Sinus elevator
Spoon‐like instrument used to elevate the Schneiderian membrane.
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Sinus
A cavity or hollow space in a bone or other tissue such as the air‐filled paranasal sinuses or dilated channels for venous blood in the cranium or liver. Recess between the teeth or lobes of a margin; Angle formed by the basal lobes of a leaf. The cleft between two lobes or segments of a…
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Sintering
Heating a powder below the melting point of any component such as to permit agglomeration and welding of particles by diffusion alone, with or without applied pressure.
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Sintered (porous) surface
A dental implant surface produced when spherical powders of metallic or ceramic materials become a coherent surface layer with the metallic core of an implant body. Porous surfaces are characterized by pore size, pore shape, pore volume, and pore depth, which are affected by the size of the spherical particles used and the temperature and…
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Single‐stage implant
Misnomer used for an implant that is placed with a one‐stage procedure.
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Simultaneous implant placement
Implant placement with a simultaneous bone‐grafting procedure.
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Simulation
Imitative representation of the functioning of one system or process by means of the functioning of another. For example, in radiology, it could be an image obtained with the same source‐to‐skin distance, field size, and orientation as the diagnostic beam for visualization of a treated area on a radiograph. Pretense of having a disease; feigning…
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Simple regression
Predicts the value of a single response variable from a given value of a single explanatory variable.
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Simple joint
A joint in which only two bones articulate.