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19:58 Jul 16, 2016 |
French to English translations [PRO] Medical - Medical: Dentistry / Name of profession | |||||||
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4 | edge to edge |
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3 | level bite / even bite |
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edge to edge Explanation: Disclaimer: I have no expert knowledge of dentistry. And I certainly can't give you the Polish, I'm afraid. I got to this through my main foreign language, Spanish. I had no luck trying to go straight from French to English. "But à but" apparently corresponds to "borde a borde", which means "edge to edge". Bear with me if I start with a Spanish reference (Faculty of Odontology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM): "En caso del prognatismo, a veces, será suficiente con hacer el montaje borde a borde (but-à-but) de los incisivos, que consiste en corregir en parte el adelantamiento de los incisivos inferiores, haciendo que los bordes de superiores e inferiores coincidan. [...]" Well, I'm none the wiser so far, but there are plenty of results in English for "edge to edge" in this context, and here's a definition: "edge-to-edge occlusion Definition: an occlusion in which the anterior teeth of both jaws meet along their incisal edges when the teeth are in centric occlusion. Synonym(s): edge-to-edge bite, end-to-end bite, end-to-end occlusion" https://www.drugs.com/dict/edge-to-edge-occlusion.html -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 56 mins (2016-07-16 20:55:05 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- But à but literally means end to end, of course, and according to me last reference (which comes from Stedman's), it can also be called end-to-end bite in English. But edge-to-edge seems to be more common. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 59 mins (2016-07-16 20:58:13 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The idea is that in a normal bite the top incisors overlap the bottom ones, but in an edge-to-edge or end-to-end bite the edges of the top and bottom incisors meet. This is not a good thing. Google images gives plenty of examples (which make me even less keen on becoming a dentist than I was already). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2016-07-16 21:15:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Thanks! I now know how to say this in four languages, and half an hour ago I had never heard of it. This is indeed a wonderful site. |
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level bite / even bite Explanation: EDIT- See the link Once again, I have no experience in the field but it almost surely seems to say the opposite of what we could call an overbite or a crossbite in humans. Dog's are supposed to have overbites, not EVEN BITES, but-a-but, like humans do. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 19 hrs (2016-07-17 15:30:18 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- the idea of "cross, even, over" refers to your top and bottom rows of teeth: top row overlaps bottom, you have a cross bite. If they're even, you have a "bite but-a-but", which most humans do. But dogs aren't supposed to, if a dog has a "level bite", it's a bad thing. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 19 hrs (2016-07-17 15:39:02 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Level bite is your term, sir :https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day6 hrs (2016-07-18 02:56:00 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- Thank you! I know mine may not have been the best help, but at least it was free :) Reference: http://www.petmd.com/dog/conditions/mouth/c_dg_Malocclusion_... |
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