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Abstract
Total lack of teeth through disease or extraction.
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4 entry terms
- Mouth, Edentulous
- Mouth, Toothless
- Edentulous Mouths
- Toothless Mouth
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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do not confuse with ANODONTIA (congenital absence of one or more teeth); differentiate from JAW, EDENTULOUS & JAW, EDENTULOUS, PARTIALLY (see definitions under JAW, EDENTULOUS)
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History Note
65; included total & partial edentulous state 1965-79
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- National Library of Medicine. Edentulous Mouth. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009066. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009066
- Edentulous Mouth. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54932060