Dentistry Definition

dĕntĭ-strē
noun
The profession or work of a dentist.
Webster's New World
The science concerned with the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases of the teeth, gums, and related structures of the mouth and including the repair or replacement of defective teeth.
American Heritage Medicine

(uncountable) Operations performed on teeth and adjoining areas such as drilling, filling cavities, and placing crowns and bridges.

Wiktionary

(countable) A dental surgery, an operation on the teeth.

Wiktionary
(countable) A place where dental operations are performed. (Not as common as "dentist's office". Compare surgery.)
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Noun

Singular:
dentistry
Plural:
dentistries

Origin of Dentistry

  • dentist +‎ -ry

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Dentistry Sentence Examples

  • After preparing a small volume of miscellanies, which was published by subscription, he studied dentistry with Anthony Norris Groves in Exeter.

  • Diamonds are now employed not only for faceting precious stones, but also for cutting and drilling glass, porcelain, &c,; for fine engraving such as scales; in dentistry for drilling; as a turning tool for electric-light carbons, hard rubber, &c.; and occasionally for finishing accurate turning work such as the axle of a transit instrument.

  • It is largely used in dentistry and slight surgical operations to produce local anaesthesia, and is known by the trade-name kelene.

  • Make the most of your smile with cosmetic dentistry at our Bournemouth dental practice.

  • Except that splints are sometimes found on the limbs of bodies of all periods, at present nothing is known, from texts or otherwise, of the existence of Egyptian surgery or dentistry.

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Words Starting With

DDEDEN

Words Ending With

YRYTRY

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Words Starting With D and Ending With Y

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