"Dental Scaling" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Removal of dental plaque and dental calculus from the surface of a tooth, from the surface of a tooth apical to the gingival margin accumulated in periodontal pockets, or from the surface coronal to the gingival margin.
| Descriptor ID |
D012534
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
E06.721.189.350 E06.761.227.350
|
| Concept/Terms |
Scaling, Root- Scaling, Root
- Root Scaling
- Root Scalings
- Scalings, Root
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Dental Scaling".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Dental Scaling".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Dental Scaling" by people in this website by year, and whether "Dental Scaling" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Dental Scaling" by people in Profiles.
-
Fritz ME, Braswell LD, Koth D, Jeffcoat M, Reddy M, Cotsonis G. Experimental peri-implantitis in consecutively placed, loaded root-form and plate-form implants in adult Macaca mulatta monkeys. J Periodontol. 1997 Nov; 68(11):1131-5.
-
Bjornson EJ, Collins DE, Engler WO. Surface alteration of composite resins after curette, ultrasonic, and sonic instrumentation: an in vitro study. Quintessence Int. 1990 May; 21(5):381-9.
-
Gellin RG, Miller MC, Javed T, Engler WO, Mishkin DJ. The effectiveness of the Titan-S sonic scaler versus curettes in the removal of subgingival calculus. A human surgical evaluation. J Periodontol. 1986 Nov; 57(11):672-80.