odonto-, odont-, odon-, -odont, -odonic, -odontic, -odontia, -odontoid

A dental specialty concerned with keeping the dental pulp in a state of health and the treatment of the pulp cavity (pulp chamber and pulp canal); also, endodontia.

1. The branch of dentistry concerned with diagnosis, treatment, and the prevention of diseases of the dental pulp and its surrounding tissues.
2. The study of diseases of the dental pulp and their condition following the occurrence of a preceding disease; also endodontics.

Root canal treatment is also known as endodontic therapy. Having a root canal generally involves treatment of the tooth's pulpal tissue (or nerve).

In addition to nerve fibers, the pulpal tissue also contains arteries, veins, lymph vessels, and connective tissue.

Root canals are often the most feared procedure by regular visitors to the dentist's office, although it is claimed to be, in most cases, a fairly uncomplicated and low-pain treatment.

Decaying teeth or dental caries.

A reference to a lizard’s or dinosaur’s tooth.

Having molars with crescent-shaped cusps that serve to grind fibrous food and which occur in herbivores.

Having slender teeth.

A late Ichthyosaur, an extinct marine reptile, not a dinosaur. From Late Jurassic Europe (Germany and England).

Having four crescentic ridges on molar teeth.

A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebrae and the teeth implanted in sockets.

A “socket-toothed lizard” from Late Triassic west-central England (near Bristol), and maybe South Africa and northeast Australia. This creature was formerly known as Hortalotarsus. Named by S. H. Riley and Samuel Stutchbury in 1836.

Having the teeth inserted in sockets or alveoli (bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth).