dentistry

CEFRB2

/ˈdɛntɪstɹi/

noun

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Operations performed on teeth and adjoining areas such as drilling, filling cavities, and placing crowns and bridges.
The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity.
A place where dental operations are performed.

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

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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.
1905, Australian journal of dentistry, volume 9, Australian Dental Association, page 184
A corporation may not operate a dentistry office unless all of its stockholders are licensed to practice dentistry.
1957, West's Wisconsin statutes annotated, West Publishing Company
He was born near Middleton in 1853, graduated from Mount Allison, and took his dentistry degree at Philadelphia in 1878.
1997, P.B. Waite, The Lives of Dalhousie University, volume II: 1925-198, page 24
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
2000, James Wynbrandt, The excruciating history of dentistry, page 81
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.
2009, Siobhain Ryan, “Poor access leads to DIY dentistry: dental checks”, in The Australian, sourced from Dow Jones Newswires

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From dentist + -ry.