Meanings
nounfissurotomy (plural fissurotomies)
plural fissurotomies
- dentistryAn incision into a fissure
The DIAGNOdent findings were closely correlated to the fissurotomy results, with a median of 15.0 among the teeth without caries according to the biopsy findings and a median of 46.5 among the teeth with caries ( Table 2 ).
2015 July 1, María Melo et al., “In vivo study of different methods for diagnosing pit and fissure caries”, in Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry, volume 7, →DOI
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