edentulousness

English

Etymology

edentulous +‎ -ness

Noun

edentulousness (uncountable)

  1. The property of being edentulous; lack of teeth.
    Synonym: edentulosity
    Antonym: dentulousness
    • 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:
      The objective of the study is to review the prevalence of partial edentulousness and its correlation to age,gender, arch predominance, socio economic factors and incidence of various Kennedy’s Classes.
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