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  2. Universal Numbering System - Wikipedia

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    This is a dental practitioner view, so tooth number 1, the rear upper tooth on the patient's right, appears on the left of the chart. The Universal Numbering System, sometimes called the "American System", is a dental notation system commonly used in the United States. [1][2] Most of the rest of the world uses the FDI World Dental Federation ...

  3. Dental notation - Wikipedia

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    Dental notation. Dental professionals, in writing or speech, use several different dental notation systems for associating information with a specific tooth. The three most common systems are the FDI World Dental Federation notation (ISO 3950), the Universal Numbering System, and the Palmer notation. The FDI notation is used worldwide, and the ...

  4. Dental anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Dental anesthesia. Specialty. dental anesthesiology. MeSH. D000766. [edit on Wikidata] Dental anesthesia (or dental anaesthesia) is the application of anesthesia to dentistry. It includes local anesthetics, sedation, and general anesthesia.

  5. List of medical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Acronyms for Medical & Dental professional organizations; Medical Abbreviations for iPhone; Medical abbreviations on mediLexicon; Medical acronyms and abbreviations on allacronyms.com; Over 20,000 medical abbreviations sorted into specialist categories; Medical abbreviations in various categories such as Physiology, Oncology, Laboratory and more

  6. Glossary of dentistry - Wikipedia

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    The direction toward the biting edge of anterior teeth or something relating to this edge, such as the terms incisal guidance or incisal edge. This is the sister term to occlusal, which related to the analogous location on posterior teeth. [1] Inferior. The direction toward the feet of a human's body, as opposed to superior, which refers to the ...

  7. List of medical abbreviations: A - Wikipedia

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    A or Ala – alanine. C or Cys – cysteine. D or Asp – aspartic acid. E or Glu – glutamic acid. F or Phe – phenylalanine. H or His – histidine. I or Ile – isoleucine. K or Lys – lysine.

  8. Palmer notation - Wikipedia

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    Palmer notation. Palmer notation (sometimes called the " Military System" and named for 19th-century American dentist Dr. Corydon Palmer from Warren, Ohio [1]) is a dental notation (tooth numbering system). Despite the adoption of the FDI World Dental Federation notation (ISO 3950) in most of the world and by the World Health Organization, the ...

  9. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    First, prefixes and suffixes, most of which are derived from ancient Greek or classical Latin, have a droppable vowel, usually -o-. As a general rule, this vowel almost always acts as a joint-stem to connect two consonantal roots (e.g. arthr- + -o- + -logy = arthrology ), but generally, the -o- is dropped when connecting to a vowel-stem (e.g ...