Dental Care
Students, Dental
Dental Caries
School Nursing
A nursing specialty concerned with health and nursing care given to primary and secondary school students by a registered nurse.
School Health Services
Dental Care for Chronically Ill
Dental care for patients with chronic diseases. These diseases include chronic cardiovascular, endocrinologic, hematologic, immunologic, neoplastic, and renal diseases. The concept does not include dental care for the mentally or physically disabled which is DENTAL CARE FOR DISABLED.
Dental Care for Children
The giving of attention to the special dental needs of children, including the prevention of tooth diseases and instruction in dental hygiene and dental health. The dental care may include the services provided by dental specialists.
Faculty, Dental
Dental Clinics
Facilities where dental care is provided to patients.
Dental Hygienists
Dental Pulp
Dental Care for Disabled
Dental care for the emotionally, mentally, or physically disabled patient. It does not include dental care for the chronically ill ( = DENTAL CARE FOR CHRONICALLY ILL).
Dental Anxiety
Dental Research
Insurance, Dental
Insurance providing coverage for dental care.
Dental Care for Aged
The giving of attention to the special dental needs of the elderly for proper maintenance or treatment. The dental care may include the services provided by dental specialists.
Dental Arch
The curve formed by the row of TEETH in their normal position in the JAW. The inferior dental arch is formed by the mandibular teeth, and the superior dental arch by the maxillary teeth.
Dental Records
Dental Plaque
A film that attaches to teeth, often causing DENTAL CARIES and GINGIVITIS. It is composed of MUCINS, secreted from salivary glands, and microorganisms.
Dental Offices
The room or rooms in which the dentist and dental staff provide care. Offices include all rooms in the dentist's office suite.
Dental Staff
General Practice, Dental
Nonspecialized dental practice which is concerned with providing primary and continuing dental care.
Dental Equipment
The nonexpendable items used by the dentist or dental staff in the performance of professional duties. (From Boucher's Clinical Dental Terminology, 4th ed, p106)
Dental Amalgam
Education, Dental, Continuing
Educational programs designed to inform dentists of recent advances in their fields.
School Admission Criteria
Requirements for the selection of students for admission to academic institutions.
Education, Dental, Graduate
Dental Implants
Ethics, Dental
Societies, Dental
Societies whose membership is limited to dentists.
Dental Service, Hospital
Hospital department providing dental care.
Technology, Dental
Fluorosis, Dental
A chronic endemic form of hypoplasia of the dental enamel caused by drinking water with a high fluorine content during the time of tooth formation, and characterized by defective calcification that gives a white chalky appearance to the enamel, which gradually undergoes brown discoloration. (Jablonski's Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p286)