A crown made of gold or metal alloy designed to cover entire anatomic crown of the tooth - Answers
Full cast crown
Full metallic coping covered by porcelain or composite material - Answers PFM
A metallic, porcelain or composite resin restoration covering more than three but not all surfaces of the
tooth - Answers Partial crowns
Can be made from gold alloy, porcelain or composite resin. Can replace mesial,distal, occlusal, buccal,
and lingual surfaces of posterior teeth and do not cover cusp tips - Answers Inlay
Can be made of gold alloy, porcelain, or composite resin. Can replace mesial, distal, lingual, buccal and
occlusal surfaces of posterior teeth and also include coverage of at least one cusp - Answers Onlay
Thin tooth colored restoration covering the facial aspect of anterior and sometimes posterior teeth -
Answers Veneers
A fixed prosthetic device that is permanently attatched to the teeth remaining in the mouth, which can
replace one or more missing teeth - Answers Fixed partial denture
What is another name for fixed partial denture? - Answers bridge
The artificial tooth or teeth suspended from the abutment teeth - Answers pontic
the portion of the fixed partial denture cemented to the prepared abutment teeth - Answers retainer
Joints that connect retainers to pontics - Answers connectors
A metallic or resin device that is inserted into the endontically treated pulpal canal and cemented or
bonded into place, aids in retaining final restoration - Answers post
attatched to the post and fills the void that was removed during caries removal, trauma, or endontic
access. adds strength to the tooth - Answers core
A replacement of natural teeth which utilizes a titanium metal device embedded within the patient's
bone - Answers Dental implants
A 3- 6 month process in which patient's bone frows around and attatches itself to the implant - Answers
Osseointegration
Metal device surgically placed within the bone - Answers Implant
Portion of the prosthesis that is inserted into the implant that will accept the final prosthesis - Answers
abutment
Final prosthesis that is cemented to the abutment - Answers crown