Orthodontics
Terms
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copy deck
- bracket
- welded or soldered to a band
- ligature wire
- fine wire to tie the main arch wire into the brackets
- Orthodontics
- Specialty that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of malocclusions
- preventive orthodontics
- appliances to maintain space
- macrodontia
- unusually large tooth
- periodontitis
- inflammation of the tissue
- Arch wire
- main wire framework
- gingivitis
- inflammation of the gums
- microdontia
- unusually small tooth
- periodontium
- tissue that surrounds and supports the teeth
- sublingual calculus
- calculus deposited below the gingiva
- supragingival calculus
- calbulus above the ginviva
- open bite
- incisors do not pass one another on the verticle axis
- Pericoronitis
- inflammation around the crown of a partially erupted tooth
- malocclusion
- abnormal or malposition
- gingivoplasty
- surgical repair of the gums
- distocclusion
- buck teeth
- osteoplasty
- surgical repair of the alveolar bone
- Necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
- an infection of the gums
- periodontosis
- advanced inflammation and destruction of the gingiva
- elastics
- rubber bands
- closed bite
- overbite
- debride
- scraping away
- corrective orthodontics
- braces
- prognathia
- developmental malocclusion
- gingivectomy
- surgical removal of gum tissue
- sulcus
- space between the free gingiva and the tooth
- interceptive orthodontics
- space maintainer used in growing children
- periodontics
- specialty that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of the periodontium