dentistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛntɪstɹi/
Forms: form: dentistries
Etymology: From dentist + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Some provision should be made for the truly suffering poor, and also for our present students of dentistry to learn something about dental surgery before commencing a profession which has almost become a science.
ref: 1905, Australian journal of dentistry, volume 9, Australian Dental Association, page 184:
text: A corporation may not operate a dentistry office unless all of its stockholders are licensed to practice dentistry.
ref: 1957, West's Wisconsin statutes annotated, West Publishing Company:
text: He was born near Middleton in 1853, graduated from Mount Allison, and took his dentistry degree at Philadelphia in 1878.
ref: 1997, P.B. Waite, The Lives of Dalhousie University, volume II: 1925-198, page 24:
text: Wig-workers were not the only tradesmen who practiced dentistry on the side, or "assumed the role" of dentist, as the arrival of a thespian dentist from London attests in this ad from Boston's Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser
ref: 2000, James Wynbrandt, The excruciating history of dentistry, page 81:
glosses: The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity.
examples: text: POOR Australians are resorting to do-it-yourself dentistry, including filing their own teeth and attempting their own extractions, because of lengthy queues for public dental services.
ref: 2009, Siobhain Ryan, “Poor access leads to DIY dentistry: dental checks”, in The Australian, sourced from Dow Jones Newswires:
text: 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.
ref: 2011, Gregory J. Tarantola, Clinical Cases in Restorative and Reconstructive Dentistry, →ISBN:
glosses: Operations performed on teeth and adjoining areas such as drilling, filling cavities, and placing crowns and bridges.
examples: text: Dr. Landsberg, of Posen, states that when children's teeth are put in order by means of school dentistries, anaemia, one of the most frequent school diseases, will be greatly diminished.
ref: 1908, in the report of the Second International Congress on School Hygiene, volume 2, page 516
text: 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.
ref: 2004, Gene Witiak, True Confessions of a Veterinarian: An Unconditional Love Story, page 83:
glosses: A dental surgery, an operation on the teeth.
examples: text: They are very fond of sweet things; and the ladies especially crowd the “candystores,” which are not less numerous than the dentistries—with which business they are intimately connected.
ref: 1867, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 16, page 464:
text: The author could dilate at great length on the possibilities in plant groceries, restaurants, and dentistries.
ref: 1918, Edward Bernard Benjamin, The larger liberalism, page 172:
text: As a first step, the law with be amended to prepare for the privatization of pharmacies and dentistries by end-2003.
ref: 2003, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: First Review, →ISBN:
synonyms: clinic
dentist's office
surgery
glosses: A place where dental operations are performed.
Derived terms: animal dentistry
cosmetic dentistry
predentistry
teledentistry