| 单词 | porcelain tooth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasporcelain tooth porcelain tooth n. a false tooth made of porcelain (chiefly in plural). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > denture > tooth porcelain tooth1816 wallies1954 1816 National Reg. 13 Apr. 107/1 The persons who were entitled to the exclusive privilege of fabricating and setting the real porcelain or ‘mineral paste’ teeth, rendered a very great and essential good to many persons. 1839 C. A. Harris Dental Art xix. 313 The manufacture of porcelain teeth, did not for a long time promise to be of much advantage to dentistry. 1976 R. M. Basker et al. Prosthetic Treatm. Edentulous Patient vi. 56 If the patient's masticatory habits have been responsible for an excessive amount of wear in a short period of time, porcelain teeth must be used if the succeeding dentures are to be serviceable for an adequate period. 2004 Irish Times (Nexis) 28 Apr. 41 When I started..porcelain teeth accounted for about 90 per cent of all dentures. < as lemmas |
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