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Descriptor English: Overbite
Descriptor Spanish: Sobremordida
Descriptor sobremordida
Scope note: Mala oclusión en la que los incisivos maxilares y los dientes caninos se proyectan excesivamente sobre los dientes mandibulares. La superposición se mide perpendicularmente al plano oclusal y también es llamada superposición vertical. Cuando la superposición se mide en paralelo al plano oclusal se conoce como sobremordida horizontal.
Descriptor Portuguese: Sobremordida
Descriptor French: Surocclusion
Entry term(s): Deep Bite
Deep Bites
Deep-Bite
Deep-Bites
Dental Overjet
Dental Overjets
Incisor Protrusion
Incisor Protrusions
Over Bite
Over Bites
Overbites
Overjet, Dental
Protrusion, Incisor
Tree number(s): C07.793.494.630.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D057887
Scope note: A malocclusion in which maxillary incisor and canine teeth project over the mandibular teeth excessively. The overlap is measured perpendicular to the occlusal plane and is also called vertical overlap. When the overlap is measured parallel to the occlusal plane it is referred to as overjet.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Malocclusion (1963-2010)
Malocclusion, Angle Class II (1979-2010)
Public MeSH Note: 2011
History Note: 2011
DeCS ID: 53960
Unique ID: D057887
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2011/01/01
Date of Entry: 2010/06/25
Revision Date: 2017/02/24
Overbite - Preferred
Concept UI M0539613
Scope note A malocclusion in which maxillary incisor and canine teeth project over the mandibular teeth excessively. The overlap is measured perpendicular to the occlusal plane and is also called vertical overlap. When the overlap is measured parallel to the occlusal plane it is referred to as overjet.
Preferred term Overbite
Entry term(s) Deep Bite
Deep Bites
Deep-Bite
Deep-Bites
Over Bite
Over Bites
Overbites
Overjet, Dental - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0539614
Scope note A malocclusion of the teeth in which maxillary incisor and canine teeth project over the mandiblar teeth. The overlap is measured parallel to the occlusal plane and therefore is called horizontal overlap.
Preferred term Overjet, Dental
Entry term(s) Dental Overjet
Dental Overjets
Incisor Protrusion - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0539615
Preferred term Incisor Protrusion
Entry term(s) Incisor Protrusions
Protrusion, Incisor



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