fissurotomy

English

Etymology

From fissure +‎ -tomy.

Noun

fissurotomy (plural fissurotomies)

1. (dentistry) An incision into a fissure
   • 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^[1], volume 7, →DOI:

     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 ).