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Descriptor English: Furcation Defects
Descriptor Spanish: Defectos de Furcación
Descriptor defectos de furcación
Scope note: Afecciones en las que una bifurcación o trifurcación de la raíz de un molar resulta denudada a consecuencia de una enfermedad periodontal. Puede seguirse de movilidad del molar, sensibilidad a la temperatura, dolor y resorción del hueso alveolar.
Descriptor Portuguese: Defeitos da Furca
Descriptor French: Anomalies de furcation
Entry term(s): Defect, Furcation
Defects, Furcation
Furcation Defect
Tree number(s): C07.465.714.204
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017823
Scope note: Conditions in which a bifurcation or trifurcation of the molar tooth root becomes denuded as a result of periodontal disease. It may be followed by tooth mobility, temperature sensitivity, pain, and alveolar bone resorption.
Annotation: a periodontal dis
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: Tooth Root (1966-1993)
Public MeSH Note: 94
History Note: 94
DeCS ID: 31459
Unique ID: D017823
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Date Established: 1994/01/01
Date of Entry: 1993/06/04
Furcation Defects - Preferred
Concept UI M0026930
Scope note Conditions in which a bifurcation or trifurcation of the molar tooth root becomes denuded as a result of periodontal disease. It may be followed by tooth mobility, temperature sensitivity, pain, and alveolar bone resorption.
Preferred term Furcation Defects
Entry term(s) Defect, Furcation
Defects, Furcation
Furcation Defect



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