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Descriptor English: Tooth Attrition
Descriptor Spanish: Atrición Dental
Descriptor atrición dental
Entry term(s) atrición de los dientes
atrición dentaria
atrición excesiva de los dientes
Scope note: Desgaste de un diente como resultado del contacto diente-a-diente, como en la masticación, que ocurre sólo en las superficies oclusales, incisales y proximales. Se asocia principalmente con el envejecimiento. Se diferencia de la ABRASIÓN DENTARIA (desgaste patológico de la sustancia dentaria por fricción, como en el cepillado, bruxismo, movimientos de apretar fuertemente, y otras causas mecánicas) y de la EROSIÓN DENTARIA (pérdida de sustancia producida por la acción química sin acción bacteriana). (Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p86)
Descriptor Portuguese: Atrito Dentário
Descriptor French: Attrition dentaire
Entry term(s): Attrition, Dental
Attrition, Tooth
Dental Attrition
Dental Attritions
Occlusal Wear
Occlusal Wears
Wear, Occlusal
Wears, Occlusal
Tree number(s): C07.793.818.249
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019217
Scope note: The wearing away of a tooth as a result of tooth-to-tooth contact, as in mastication, occurring only on the occlusal, incisal, and proximal surfaces. It is chiefly associated with aging. It is differentiated from TOOTH ABRASION (the pathologic wearing away of the tooth substance by friction, as brushing, bruxism, clenching, and other mechanical causes) and from TOOTH EROSION (the loss of substance caused by chemical action without bacterial action). (Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p86)
Annotation: do not confuse with TOOTH EROSION or TOOTH ABRASION
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 Abrasion (1966-1996)
Public MeSH Note: 1997; for DENTAL ATTRITION see TOOTH ABRASION 1976-1996
History Note: 1997; for DENTAL ATTRITION use TOOTH ABRASION 1976-1996
DeCS ID: 32945
Unique ID: D019217
NLM Classification: WU 140
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1997/01/01
Date of Entry: 1996/06/10
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Tooth Attrition - Preferred
Concept UI M0028623
Scope note The wearing away of a tooth as a result of tooth-to-tooth contact, as in mastication, occurring only on the occlusal, incisal, and proximal surfaces. It is chiefly associated with aging. It is differentiated from TOOTH ABRASION (the pathologic wearing away of the tooth substance by friction, as brushing, bruxism, clenching, and other mechanical causes) and from TOOTH EROSION (the loss of substance caused by chemical action without bacterial action). (Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p86)
Preferred term Tooth Attrition
Entry term(s) Attrition, Dental
Attrition, Tooth
Dental Attrition
Dental Attritions
Occlusal Wear
Occlusal Wears
Wear, Occlusal
Wears, Occlusal



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