Dentistry

Quick meaning: Dentistry is a noun meaning (uncountable) The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity.

Meaning

(uncountable) The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Operations performed on teeth and adjoining areas such as drilling, filling cavities, and placing crowns and bridges.
2. (countable) A dental surgery, an operation on the teeth.
3. (countable, uncommon) A place where dental operations are performed.

Example Sentences

A corporation may not operate a dentistry office unless all of its stockholders are licensed to practice dentistry.

He was born near Middleton in 1853, graduated from Mount Allison, and took his dentistry degree at Philadelphia in 1878.

I speak now only of your pet's bad breath. Dentistries will specifically improve the oral health of the pet as well as its overall health in the long term.

This patient is an out-of-town physician who had to wait until retirement to complete his dentistry. He had holding pattern type dentistry done to get him by.

Word Forms

• dentistries

Synonyms for dentistry

Depending on context, synonyms include clinic, surgery.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dentist, dental, tooth, dentists, odontology, stomatology.

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