dental dam

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den′tal dam′


n.
a flat piece of latex used to prevent the transfer of bodily fluids during cunnilingus.
[after rubber dam, a piece of latex placed over the teeth during dental work]
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You can even enjoy oral s3x during your period; it's perfectly safe and healthy - although, as I said above, it's very important to practise safer s3x techniques (like using a dental dam).
It may not be sexy, but using a dental dam to decrease the risk of transmission of HPV is essential.
After anesthesia with 4% septocaine with 1 : 100,000 adrenaline (Ubistesin Forte, 3M ESPE, Seefeld, Germany) and rubber dam isolation (Hygenic Dental Dam, Coltene Whaledent, Langenau, Germany), an access cavity through the crown was prepared.
Operative dentistry and endodontic are the two major areas where rubber dam is specifically used.1-7 European Society of Endodontics quality guidelines state that RCT procedures should be carried out only when the tooth is isolated by dental dam.8
- The rubber dam clamp anchors the dental dam to the tooth.
Women can use a sheet of latex called a dental dam when receiving oral sex.
To protect yourself, make sure your partner uses a condom if you're performing oral sex; if he's performing oral sex on you or if you're having oral sex with a woman, use a dental dam, a flat piece of latex, to cover the vulva.
There's not a dental dam been invented that's strong enough to tempt me to wrap my lips around Pete's rancid Royal Doultons.
DO Use a condom or dental dam when you have oral sex with somebody new.
Specifically, the report takes issue with the use in one curriculum of the term "dental dam" instead of "rubber dam," notes that three programs included out-dated information on the spermicide nonoxynol-9 and faults one program for citing an inaccurate condom failure rate (12% rather than 15%).
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