Resorb.
transitive verb
- to swallow, or suck in again
- (sic) to charge an outrageous sum of money to get a tooth fixed
Sounds innocuous right? Not when your periodontist uses it.
What it means is that the $2,000.00 you just spent to have a tooth removed, a titanium implant placed where your tooth root used to be, and then a crown screwed onto the implanted post, isn’t actually going to work, because your jawbone has (unfortunatly) resorbed and there isn’t enough bone in which to put that implant.
Not to worry though; we can – another new phrase – do a sinus lift and graft some bone in there to correct that resorb problem. That costs $3,000.00. Expensive little word.
Especially unfortunate as I need two of them.
On the plus side, is a good new word for Draw Something.
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