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Definition of Impacted tooth
1. Noun. A disorder in which a tooth is so crowded in its socket that it cannot erupt normally.
Medical Definition of Impacted tooth
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Impacted Tooth
Literary usage of Impacted tooth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1896)
"The second molar is a devitalized tooth, the distal root of which shows where
the impacted tooth has pressed against it. Not only has it done this, ..."
2. The International Journal of Orthodontia and Oral Surgery (1921)
"In this paper it is assumed that an impacted tooth is one that will not or cannot
... When space is produced for an impacted tooth it may then become an ..."
3. The Lancet-clinic by Mississippi Valley Medical Association, Ohio Valley Medical Association (1908)
"Kells insists that such symptoms do not occur in a young individual, but can only
result from continued pressure of the impacted tooth over a considerable ..."
4. The Journal of the Allied Dental Societies by Allied Dental Societies (U.S.) (1918)
"To make myself clear as to what I mean by impacted, I wish to say that an unerupted
tooth may be impacted, but an impacted tooth need not be unerupted; ..."
5. Surgery and diseases of the mouth and jaws: A Practical Treatise on the by Vilray Papin Blair (1917)
"In some cases, such as neuralgia or an infection around the unerupted tooth, the
indications for removing an impacted tooth are very evident. ..."
6. Army Dentistry: Forsyth Lectures for the Army Dental Reserve Corps edited by Frederick Anthony Keyes (1918)
"... caused by the impingement of the crown of the impacted tooth. When the tooth
has erupted so far as to show some portion of the crown above the surface ..."
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