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Preferred term

Tooth Erosion  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Dental Erosion
  • Dental Erosions
  • Erosion, Dental

Note

  • loss of substance caused by chem action without bact action: differentiate from TOOTH ABRASION (loss of substance caused by friction) & TOOTH ATTRITION (wearing away through tooth-to-tooth contact)

Scope note

  • Progressive loss of the hard substance of a tooth by chemical processes that do not involve bacterial action. (Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p296)

History note

  • 65

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • erosio dentis
  • erosio dentium
  • erosio dentium NAS
  • hammaseroosio
  • hammaseroosiot
  • hammassyöpymä
  • hammassyöpymät
  • hampaan eroosio
  • hampaan kemiallinen kuluminen
  • hampaan syöpymä
  • hampaiden eroosio
  • hampaiden syöpymät
  • tanderosion
  • tanderosion UNS
  • tarkemmin määrittämätön hampaiden eroosio
  • Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014077

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