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Monday 15 February 2010

Prosthetics


A prosthesis may be defined as " an appliance which replaces lost or congenitally missing tissue. Some prosthesis restore both the function and the appearance of the tissue they replace, other merely restore one of these factors.
Prosthetic is the art and science of designing and fitting artificial substitutes to replace lost or missing tissue. Dental prosthetic is a subdivision which deals with its application to the mouth.
By definition dental prosthetic (also known as prosthodontics or prosthetic dentistry) includes the replacement of any lost tissue and and therefore embraces the filling of teeth and the fitting of artificial crowns. In actual practice, however, the term has come to mean the fitting of appliances such as artificial dentures , bridges , obturators and surgical prostheses, and it is in this sense that the term will be used throughout this article.

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