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Descriptor English: Tooth Erosion
Descriptor Spanish: Erosión de los Dientes
Descriptor erosión de los dientes
Entry term(s) erosión del esmalte dental
erosión dental
erosión dentaria
Scope note: Pérdida progresiva de la sustancia dura de un diente por procesos químicos en los que no participa la acción bacteriana. (Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p296)
Descriptor Portuguese: Erosão Dentária
Descriptor French: Érosion dentaire
Entry term(s): Dental Enamel Erosion
Dental Enamel Erosions
Dental Erosion
Enamel Erosion, Dental
Erosion, Dental Enamel
Erosion, Tooth
Erosions, Tooth
Tooth Erosions
Tree number(s): C07.793.720.605
C07.793.818.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014077
Scope note: Progressive loss of the hard substance of a tooth by chemical processes that do not involve bacterial action. (Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p296)
Annotation: loss of substance caused by chem action without bact action: differentiate from TOOTH ABRASION (loss of substance caused by friction) & TOOTH ATTRITION (wearing away through tooth-to-tooth contact)
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
Public MeSH Note: 65
History Note: 65
DeCS ID: 14469
Unique ID: D014077
NLM Classification: WU 140
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Date Established: 1965/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2022/05/23
Tooth Erosion - Preferred
Concept UI M0021675
Scope note Progressive loss of the hard substance of a tooth by chemical processes that do not involve bacterial action. (Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p296)
Preferred term Tooth Erosion
Entry term(s) Dental Erosion
Erosion, Tooth
Erosions, Tooth
Tooth Erosions
Dental Enamel Erosion - Narrower
Concept UI M000756111
Preferred term Dental Enamel Erosion
Entry term(s) Dental Enamel Erosions
Enamel Erosion, Dental
Erosion, Dental Enamel



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