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Pedodontics
Pedodontics
Dental specialty focusing on treatment of children.
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Pedophilia
A paraphilia of the stigmatic/eligibilic type in which sexuoerotic arousal and the facilitation or attainment of orgasm in a postpubertal adolescent or adult male or female are responsive to and [dependent upon] contingent on having a juvenile partner of prepubertal or peripubertal, developmental status. Pedophile relationships may be heterosexual or homosexual or, more rarely, bisexual. They may take place in imagery or actuality, or both. The technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition in which an older person impersonates a juvenile is paraphilic juvenilism. The age and developmental status of the partner distinguishes pedophilia from nepiophilia and ephebophilia. (adjective, pedophilic): the condition in which an adult is responsive to or dependent on the imagery or actuality of erotic/sexual activity with a peripubertal or early pubertal boy or girl, in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. A pedophiliac may be a male or a female. Pedophilic activity may be replayed in fantasy during masturbation or copulation with an older partner.
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Partial denture
Removable dental prosthesis (appliance) replacing one or more natural teeth.
Pathology
Study of disease.
Periapical (PA)
Region at the end of the roots of teeth.
Periodontal surgery
Recontouring or esthetic management of diseased gum and supporting tissue.
Periodontist
Dental specialist treating the gums and supporting soft and hard tissues retaining natural teeth and the surgical placement of dental implants.
Pedodontics
Pediatric dentistry
Dental specialty focusing on treatment of children.
Periodontal chart
Record measuring the depth of gum pockets around the teeth.
Permanent teeth
Usually thirty-two adult teeth in a complete dentition.
Pit
A small defect in the tooth enamel; junction of four formative lobes of a developing tooth.
Plaque
Soft sticky substance that accumulates on teeth; composed of bacteria and food debris due to inadequate dental hygiene.
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