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ORAL SURGERY
Anaesthesia: total lack of feeling at the sensory level.
Ankylosis: when a tooth is unable to come out completely due to calcified attachment between the tooth and the bone.
Bony extraction, Full: the tooth is submerged in the bone, full bone removal is necessary.
Bony extraction, Partial: partial bone must be taken out to be able to reach the tooth to be extracted.
Cleft palate: opening of the palate due to non-closure of the midline sutures.
Cleft lip: opening of the lip due to failure of fusion between median and lateral nasal processes.
Crouzon's syndrome: underdevelopment of midface and eyes.
Dry Socekt: after an extraction it is possible that a blood clot is dislocated and not present. Therefore, the bone is left exposed and extreme pain is perceived.
Dysthesia: painful sensation without any touch.
Excision: cutting and harvesting the tissue usually for study of possible pathology
Extraction: removal of a tooth.
Hemisection: for teeth with more than one root, the tooth is divided along the roots.
Hypesthesia: extreme painful sensation when light touch is applied.
Incision: cutting.
Incision and drainage: cutting of tissue in order to allow the infection to flow out and reduce the pain and swelling.
Inferior alveolar nerve: innervates the lower teeth, tongue and ganglia.
Intravenous sedation: putting someone to sleep with an IV.
Macrostomia: wide mouth.
Oral Antral Fistula: a opening between the mouth and the maxillary sinus.
Paraesthesia: lack of sensation at the sensory level.
Pericoronitis: gingival tissue area of an empty tooth is inflamed, most often the wisdom teeth.
Root amputation: for teeth with more than one root, removal of the affected root .
Sinuses: air spaces above the upper teeth.
Soft tissue extraction, fully: the tooth is submerged in the tissue, full cutting is necessary.
Soft tissue extraction, partial: partial cutting of the tissue is needed to reach the tooth to be extracted.
Suture: stitches.
Synostosis: early closure of a facial suture.
TMJ(TMD): Temporomandibular Joint (disorder), the place near the ear where the lower jaw "joins" the skull. A defect of the disc or other parts are involved. A clicking is a common symptom.