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Letters for the faces of a tooth.
Also known as: Cavity surface codes, Dental surface abbreviation
The convention naming the surfaces of a tooth by initial letters in clinical charting.
Names the surfaces of a tooth involved in a restoration or a lesion.
Contexts: Medicine, Laboratory
Combines into groups so that a three-surface restoration is written as three letters, which makes the extent of the work readable from the code alone.
Contexts: Medicine, Laboratory
Single capital letters combined into short groups, each letter standing for one face of the tooth, written after the tooth's number.