Definitions for dentist
ˈdɛn tɪstden·tist

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. dentist, tooth doctor, dental practitionernoun

   a person qualified to practice dentistry

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 2 votes

1. dentistnoun

   A medical doctor who specializes in dentistry.

2. Etymology: From dentiste.

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1. Dentist

   A dentist, also known as a dental surgeon, is a health care professional who specializes in dentistry (the diagnosis, prevention, management, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the oral cavity and other aspects of the craniofacial complex including the temporomandibular joint). The dentist's supporting team aids in providing oral health services. The dental team includes dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental technicians, and sometimes dental therapists.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Dentistnoun

   one whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon

2. Etymology: [From L. dens, dentis, tooth: cf. F. dentiste. See Tooth.]

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1. Dentist

   A dentist, also known as a 'dental surgeon', is a health care practitioner that specializes in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the oral cavity. The dentist's supporting team aides in providing oral health services. The dental team includes dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental technicians, and in some states, dental therapists.

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1. Dentist

   den′tist, n. one who remedies diseases of the teeth, or inserts artificial teeth.—v.i. Den′tise, to cut one's teeth.—ns. Den′tistry, the business of a dentist; Denti′tion, the cutting or growing of teeth: the conformation, number, and arrangement of the teeth.

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1. Dentist

   Dental vs. Dentist -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Dental and Dentist.

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1. • Medical Practitioner

British National Corpus

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   Rank popularity for the word 'dentist' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3881

Anagrams for dentist »

1. stinted

2. distent

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dentist in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dentist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of dentist in a Sentence

1. Andrea Arnold:

   I got to see an awful lot when as I was traveling and I got quite upset about some of the towns I went to, some of the poverty I saw, it seemed really different to me than in the U.K. because when people don't have money they can't get healthcare and they can't do things like go to the dentist and stuff like that and those kind of things really shocked me.

2. Jenny Radesky:

   We found that most of kids' data were being collected from apps that called themselves' general audience apps,' even though they had names like' Children's Doctor Dentist,' lack of enforcement of COPPA has meant that these apps can claim they are not for kids, and therefore continue to collect data.

3. Roosevelt, Eleanor:

   My dentist was married to a manicurist. But it did not work out. They fought tooth and nail !

4. Frank Strietzel:

   If the patient will not follow the advice of the dentist, there is a risk of undetected inflammation around the implants, a dental implant is a foreign body like a prosthesis, which requires regular observation.

5. Pamela Robey:

   My fellows, Songtao Shi and Stan Gronthos, did the work in my lab, songtao Shi is a dentist, and basically Songtao Shi observed that, when you get a cavity, you get what's called' reparative dentin.' In other words, the tooth is trying to protect itself from that cavity, so it makes a little bit of dentin to kind of plug the hole, so to speak.

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