Teeth: registro técnico e distância clínica (C2)
Teeth are the part of us that is already a fossil. Everything else is provisional, replaced and rebuilt on a schedule the body keeps to itself, but enamel is laid down once, in childhood, and thereafter can only be lost. There is no repair. There is only the management of a decline that began before we could form a memory of the mouth being whole. The profession keeps a Latin word for the process, and files the whole slow ruin under ___, and the Latin does what Latin has always done in medicine: it places a corridor between the patient and the fact, wide enough to stand a professional in. This is not cynicism. Distance is often a kindness, and the blunt everyday word for the same process would frighten more people than it helped. But notice how much of dentistry is conducted in this register, and how little of it we would tolerate in plain speech. A chart, a code, a term of art, and the thing itself, a body quietly dismantling the only hard structure it will ever make, is held at exactly the distance where it can be discussed. That distance is the profession's finest instrument.
Fonte: English for ALL (texto original).
Assinale a alternativa que completa corretamente a lacuna do texto.
- A) rot
- B) decay
- C) wear
- D) caries
- E) damage