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Descriptor English: Tooth, Impacted
Descriptor Spanish: Diente Impactado
Descriptor diente impactado
Entry term(s) diente enclavado
diente retenido
Scope note: Diente que no puede salir por la existencia de una barrera física, generalmente otro diente. La inclusión puede deberse también a la orientación del diente en una posición diferente a la posición vertical en las estructuras periodontales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Dente Impactado
Descriptor French: Dent enclavée
Entry term(s): Impacted Teeth
Impacted Tooth
Teeth, Impacted
Tree number(s): C07.793.905
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014095
Scope note: A tooth that is prevented from erupting by a physical barrier, usually other teeth. Impaction may also result from orientation of the tooth in an other than vertical position in the periodontal structures.
Annotation: do not confuse with TOOTH, UNERUPTED
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: 14476
Unique ID: D014095
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Date Established: 1965/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2018/07/01
Tooth, Impacted - Preferred
Concept UI M0021700
Scope note A tooth that is prevented from erupting by a physical barrier, usually other teeth. Impaction may also result from orientation of the tooth in an other than vertical position in the periodontal structures.
Preferred term Tooth, Impacted
Entry term(s) Impacted Teeth
Impacted Tooth
Teeth, Impacted



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