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Provisional implant. Dental implant used during implant therapy to support a transitional fixed or removable denture. It is usually an immediately loaded narrow diameter implant, which may be removed at a later stage of treatment.  

A removable dental prosthesis serving as an interim prosthesis to which artificial teeth will be added as natural teeth are lost and that will be replaced after postextraction tissue changes have occurred. A transitional denture may become an interim complete dental prosthesis when all the natural teeth have been removed from the dental arch. Called…

The shape that exists at the point where a dental implant abutment and the corresponding dental implant body meet or join.  

Measurement of the amount of primary radiation that has transmitted through (beyond) the patient and is in line with the transmission axis of the central ray.  

The passage of light through body tissues for the purpose of examination. Visual inspection of a body structure or organ by passing a light through its walls. A method of detecting breast cancer in which light is passed through breast tissues to detect and differentiate between cysts and malignant tumors. An examination of an organ…

The process of changing the geometric shape and form of a 3D digital object by manipulating polygonal vertices, points, and lines of the surface mesh structure. Certain atoms or groups of atoms relative to a double bond between two carbon atoms on opposite sides of the molecule.  

Any of several proteins secreted by transformed cells that stimulate growth of normal cells, although not causing transformation. TGFalpha or TGF‐A is a 50‐amino acid polypeptide which binds to the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and also stimulates growth of microvascular endothelial cells. TGF‐beta or TGF‐B exists as several subtypes, all of which are found…

Core or mold used to record and/or register the relative positions of teeth, anatomic structures, or implants to one another. The fabrication material is rigid and stable, so that the index can be used to transfer the three‐dimensional information accurately.  

A thin, metallic, acrylic resin or other covering or cap used to position a die in an impression.  

The dental implant abutment that passes through the epithelium and attaches to the dental prosthesis. Called also the dental implant abutment.