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2. Grill (jewelry) - Wikipedia

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   A gold crown. Grills can imitate and are not mutually exclusive with gold teeth, a form of permanent dental prosthesis in which the visible part of a tooth is replaced or capped with gold. Grills has its roots in the Southern U.S. This was a cultural element of poor African-American people who couldn’t afford the proper dental work.

3. Crown (dental restoration) - Wikipedia

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   Crowns are used to improve the strength or appearance of teeth and to halt deterioration. While beneficial to dental health, the procedure and materials can be costly. The most common method of crowning a tooth involves taking a dental impression of a tooth prepared by a dentist, then fabricating the crown outside of the mouth. The crown can ...

4. Crown (tooth) - Wikipedia

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   In dentistry, crown refers to the anatomical area of teeth, usually covered by enamel. The crown is usually visible in the mouth after developing below the gingiva and then erupting into place. If part of the tooth gets chipped or broken, a dentist can apply an artificial crown. Artificial crowns are used most commonly to entirely cover a ...

5. Pediatric crowns - Wikipedia

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   Stainless steel crowns (SSCs), also known as silver crowns were first described in the 1950s by Engel. [3] They exist in different forms, either completely made of metal (preformed metal crowns) or with a layer of composite material covering the metal to improve esthetics (open-faced SSCs or pre-veneered SSCs). [1] [2]

6. Dental restoration - Wikipedia

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   A systematic review concluded that for decayed baby (primary) teeth, putting an off‐the‐shelf metal crown over the tooth (Hall technique) or only partially removing decay (also referred to as "selective removal" [5]) before placing a filling may be better than the conventional treatment of removing all decay before filling. [6]

7. Gold teeth - Wikipedia

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   Stationed in front of the ovens, their job was to pry open the mouths of prisoners who had been gassed and extract, or break off, "all gold teeth, as well as any gold bridgework and fillings". The teeth were collected and stored at the camp before being sent on to the Reichsbank to be melted down and converted into gold bullion , which could ...