apicoectomy
C2CEFR level
96/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The surgical removal of the apex of a tooth root, usually combined with a retrograde filling to eliminate periapical infection.
Persistent periapical radiolucency prompted an apicoectomy on the previously treated incisor.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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