Dictionary

edentulism en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin ēdentulus + -ism.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The condition of lacking some or all teeth; toothlessness.
   • There is no gender correlation for partial edentulism. 2015 June 1, Vidhya Jeyapalan, Chitra Shankar Krishnan, “Partial Edentulism and its Correlation to Age, Gender, Socio-economic Status and Incidence of Various Kennedy’s Classes– A Literature Review”, in Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research : JCDR, volume 9, →DOI:

Relateds

edentulous · anodontia