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Abfraction:
Wear or notching at the neck of a tooth at or below the gumline. It is often sensitive and accompanied by gum recession. It is caused by excessive clenching or grindind and requires bonding when too deep.

Abrasion
Loss of tooth structure caused by a hard toothbrush, poor brushing technique or bruxism

Abscess
An infection of a tooth, soft tissue or bone. It can be painful when pressure builds up.

Abutment
That portion of an implant above the neck utilized to provide support for a fixed, semi-fixed or removable dental prosthesis.

Air Abrasion:
This modern device enables dentists to treat many cavities without a needle or a dental drill. The tooth structure is removed by blasting a tooth with air and abrasive. This is a relatively new technology that may avoid the need for anesthetic.

Alginate Impression:
This is a quick setting impression material used to make study models and some dental appliances.

Allergy:
Unfavorable systemic response to a foreign substance or drug.

Alloys:
Strong and relatively ductile substances that provide electro-positive ions to a corrosive environment and can be polished to a high luster. It is most often used for surgical implants.

Alveolar Bone:
The jaw bone that anchors the roots of teeth.

Alveolus:
A opening in your jaw-bone in which a tooth is attached.

All ceram crowns:
It is the newest type of all porcelain crowns. There is less grinding of the tooth. See page

Amalgam:
Are a mixture of different metals such as 65% silver, 6% copper, 2% zinc and 25% tin bound with elemantal mercury. A most common filling material, also known as silver fillings.

Analgesia:
Loss of pain sensations without loss of consciousness. See page

Anesthesia:
Partial or complete elimination of pain sensation. Numbing a tooth is an example of local anesthesia; general anesthesia produces partial or complete unconsciousness.

Anterior Teeth:
The six upper or six lower front teeth.

Antibiotic:
A drug that stops or slows the growth of bacteria

Antibacterial:
means to inhibite the growth of bacteria.

A.N.U.G.:
Acute necrotising ulcerative gingivitis - which is a painful and destructive infection of the gingiva caused by a shift in the normal balance of bacteria in the gingival sulcus, in which fusobacteria and spirochaetes become dominant.

Apex:
That is the tip of the root of a tooth.

Apexification:
A special type of root canal treatment which is used on young teeth to help them to continue to grow despite damage to the nerve tissue. The internal medicament needs to be changed every 90 days. The whole treatment can take six to eighteen months to finish.

Apicoectomy:
This is a surgical root canal treatment used to seal the tip of a root when conventional root canal treatment has failed. Usually a very straightforward treatment with quick recovery. See page.

Appliance:
Anything the orthodontist attaches to your teeth to move your teeth or to change the shape of your jaw.

Arch:
Describes the alignment of the upper or lower teeth.

Arch Wire:
This is a metal wire which is attached to your brackets to move your teeth.

Archform:
The shape of the dental arch.

Attached Gigngiva:
This is the portion of the gingiva extending from the marginal gingiva to the alveolar mucosa. The attached gingiva is fairly dense and tightly bound down to the underlying periosteum, tooth and bone.

Attrition:
Loss of structure due to natural wear.