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Descriptor English: Tooth Mobility
Descriptor Spanish: Movilidad Dentaria
Descriptor movilidad dentaria
Entry term(s) movilidad dental
Scope note: Movimiento horizontal y, en menor grado, axial de un diente en respuesta a las fuerzas normales, como durante la oclusión. Se refiere también a la movilidad de un diente como consecuencia de la pérdida de toda o una parte de su inserción y aparato de sostén, como se observa en la periodontitis, trauma oclusal, y periodontosis. (Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p507 & Boucher s Clinical Dental Terminology, 4th ed, p313)
Descriptor Portuguese: Mobilidade Dentária
Descriptor French: Mobilité dentaire
Entry term(s): Mobilities, Tooth
Mobility, Tooth
Tooth Mobilities
Tree number(s): C07.465.714.898
G10.549.840
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014086
Scope note: Horizontal and, to a lesser degree, axial movement of a tooth in response to normal forces, as in occlusion. It refers also to the movability of a tooth resulting from loss of all or a portion of its attachment and supportive apparatus, as seen in periodontitis, occlusal trauma, and periodontosis. (From Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p507 & Boucher's Clinical Dental Terminology, 4th ed, p313)
Annotation: do not confuse with TOOTH MOVEMENT TECHNIQUES (an orthodontic procedure)
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: 14479
Unique ID: D014086
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Date Established: 1965/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/07/12
Tooth Mobility - Preferred
Concept UI M0021686
Scope note Horizontal and, to a lesser degree, axial movement of a tooth in response to normal forces, as in occlusion. It refers also to the movability of a tooth resulting from loss of all or a portion of its attachment and supportive apparatus, as seen in periodontitis, occlusal trauma, and periodontosis. (From Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p507 & Boucher's Clinical Dental Terminology, 4th ed, p313)
Preferred term Tooth Mobility
Entry term(s) Mobilities, Tooth
Mobility, Tooth
Tooth Mobilities



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