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dowel /dow·el/ (dou´'l) a peg or pin for fastening an artificial crown or core to a natural tooth root, or affixing a die to a working model for construction of a crown, inlay, or partial denture. dowel [dow′əl] Etymology: ME, doule, part of a wheel a small rod or pin, usually metal, fitted into a prepared hole within the root canal and cemented in place, serving to retain a dental restoration, such as a crown. Also called post. dowel, n a post or pin, usually made of metal, fitted into a prepared root canal of a natural tooth to improve retention of a restoration. dowel a slim cylinder of bone consisting of two plates of cortical bone separated by an internal sandwich of cancellous bone. Used for fusing bones or reconstructing large bones. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Installation consists of doweling in a steel rebar cage into the concrete slab or footing as normally done when forming and pouring conventional concrete foundations. Prepare the plate from which the negative was made with anything you want cast into your undersized pattern - threaded T-nuts, aluminum blocks for doweling, date tags, reinforcements for ribs, etc. PNA won a permanent injunction against products manufactured by a former employee, upholding its tapered plate dowels as the premier doweling systems in the marketplace. |
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