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Filling
Filling Restoration of lost tooth structure with metal, porcelain or resin materials.
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Restoration
Replacement of portion of a damaged tooth.
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Filler
An inactive substance used to make a product bigger or easier to handle. For example, fillers are often used to make pills or capsules because the amount of active drug is too small to be handled conveniently.
Filling-In theory
Idea that the brightness and color of interiors of homogeneous regions are determined by a process of lateral spread of neural activation that is initiated by units responding to abrupt changes in luminance and wavelength.
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Follicle
The tiny shaft in the skin through which a hair grows, and sebum is excreted from sebaceous glands to the surface of the skin.
Festination
Walking with a series of quick, small, shuffling steps as if hurrying forward to keep balance.
Flexor muscle
Any muscle that causes the bending of a limb or other body part.
Facing
Tooth colored overlay on the visible portion of a crown; may be acrylic, composite or porcelain.
FAGD
Fellowship Academy of General Dentistry.
Filling
Fistula
channel emanating pus from an infection site; a gum boil
Flap surgery
Lifting of gum tissue to expose and clean underlying tooth and bone structures.
Freeway space
Distance between the upper and lower teeth with the lower jaw in rest position.
Forceps
Instrument used for removal of teeth.
Forensic dentistry
Practice of gathering legal evidence for body identification or judicial issues.
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