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Equipment and Supplies > Dental Equipment > Dental Articulators
Health Occupations > Dentistry > Dental Equipment > Dental Articulators

Preferred term

Dental Articulators  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Articulator, Dental
  • Articulators, Dental
  • Dental Articulator

Scope note

  • Mechanical devices that simulate the temporomandibular joints and jaws to which maxillary and mandibular casts are attached. The entire assembly attempts to reproduce the movements of the mandible and the various tooth-to-tooth relationships that accompany those movements.

History note

  • 91(77); was see under DENTAL EQUIPMENT 1977-90; was ARTICULATORS, DENTAL see under DENTAL EQUIPMENT 1969-74

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003725

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