Block

(blok). In dentistry a ma of gold foil for filling teeth, made by folding a tape of foil upon itself several times by means of pliers. B. Teeth. Two or more artificial teeth carved from a piece of ivory, or carved or moulded from a ma of porcelain paste and afterwards baked and enamelled. B. Teeth, Biscuit ing, or Crucing of. The teeth, after being moulded or carved, are placed on a slide and put in the muffle of a furnace and subjected to a bright-red heat, by which proce the particles become sufficiently agglutinated and hardened to receive the enamel. This is called biscuit ing or crucing.