Category: S

A sterile device that is placed into the jaw bones for the attachment or retention of a tooth or teeth and whose configuration is similar to a screw; it may be hollow or solid, and normally consists of the fixture and the abutment.  

Common design for cylindrical endosseous dental implants; the screw shape allows for increased primary stability. The time of placement and the screw threads may provide additional load‐carrying capacity, although this has not been shown to be significant clinically.  

A threaded fastener used to adjoin two mating parts. A cylindrical fastener with a spiral groove running along its surface, often used in surgeries as an internal fixator (e.g., to attach bones to plates or prostheses).  

An induration, thickening, or hardening of a body part, usually induced by a chronic inflammatory reaction or by hyperplasia of interstitial fibrous connective tissue. When found in the jaws, it is depicted by an increased calcification as found in condensing osteitis. An induration or hardening, especially from inflammation and in diseases of the interstitial tissues.…

Sinus membrane (maxillary). Layer of pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium cells lining the maxillary sinus.  

A file format that contains objects in a strictly defined language or data structure; it would contain geometry, viewpoint, texture, lighting, and shading information as a description of the virtual scene. The data contained in the scene file is then passed to a rendering program to be processed and output to a digital image or…

Any radiation that is not absorbed by the target tissues. This radiation may pass through or be deflected by the tissue. The unabsorbed radiation may then collide with nearby objects or personnel. Radiation that alters its trajectory while traversing a material is known as scattered radiation. This phenomenon may result in an increase in wavelength…

Area of fibrous tissue resulting from the biologic process of wound repair that replaces normal tissues destroyed by injury or disease. Called also a cicatrix. Mark left on stem by a fallen leaf, or on seed by separating from fruit. A mark left on the skin or other tissue after a wound, burn, ulcer, lesion,…

A radiographic template utilized for CT scanning.  

Scannable object used to accurately translate the position of an implant into a digital file for use in the digital design of an implant abutment. The scan body serves the same purpose in digital design that the impression coping serves in the traditional impression and model technique.