(n.) One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
(2) Despite this exposure, none of 255 dentists, hygienists and chairside assistants had the antibody to HIV following an estimated 189 or more exposures.
(3) Dental patients were classified by experienced dentists as MPD or non-MPD patients.
(4) Among preventive procedures, most dentists removed plaque or calculus.
(5) The dentist himself is responsible for the design of the removable partial denture, because he must know and apply the biomechanical principles also.
(6) It is important that the dentist knows about disturbances of blood coagulation during and after hemo-dialysis, so that he avoids administration of platelet-inhibiting medication like aspirin and that he recognizes radiologically visible signs of insufficient dialysis in the jaws.
(7) Consumers, dentists, dental students, dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental assistant trainees, and dental hygiene students in Massachusetts were surveyed for their attitudes toward the concept of expanded-duties auxiliaries.
(8) Replacing the dentist examination with a dental auxiliary conducted screening evaluation could lead to reduced time and costs.
(9) The findings reported here suggest that MPD syndrome occurs less frequently in dentists than in dental patients, and there is no difference in the incidence of pathologic bruxing habits between dentists and non-dentists.
(10) The influence of four variables (status of communicator of drug effects, attitude of dentist, attitude of dental technician, and message of drug effects) on the obtainment of placebo effects in an oral surgery clinic was investigated.
(11) A total of 35 464 patients consulted the 50 participating dentists during the study period.
(12) These findings should draw the dentist's attention to this condition.
(13) This article reviews certain legislative points of view which should help every dentist in their decision as to whether to treat these so-called "infectious" or "contagious" patients.
(14) Only eight dentists saw the majority of their patients at domiciliary visits; many did not see any patients in this manner.
(15) Twenty dentists made 360 treatment decisions about the approximal surface of extracted teeth seen in simulated bitewing radiographs.
(16) Although most of the problems seen by the dentist in the hospital emergency room are not life-endangering, they can still cause considerable difficulty for the patient and anxiety for the doctor when not treated quickly and effectively.
(17) Several studies found that these services were less remunerative than other services and recommended that dentists delegate these functions when possible.
(18) Every dentist must be familiar with these groups of drugs and their mechanisms of action and the management of their adverse oral manifestations.
(19) Occupational groups at excess risk include dentists who have an increased risk of all types of brain tumors and electricians whose excess risk is limited to gliomas.
(20) Dental conditions including the wearing of dentures was the reason most often given for not seeing a dentist on a regular basis.
Denture
Definition:
(n.) An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither did the degree of dysfunction in complete denture wearers vary with the condition of their prostheses.
(2) A sample of fifty-three partially dentate subjects who had had partial dentures provided in the last 3 years completed a personality questionnaire (Cattell's 16 PFQ).
(3) A training device is used in conjunction with an exercise program to teach muscle control for retention of a mandibular denture.
(4) The dentist himself is responsible for the design of the removable partial denture, because he must know and apply the biomechanical principles also.
(5) Designing and fabricating the metallic framework for a fixed partial denture requires planning and an understanding of what is desired in the final form.
(6) The results are in accord with the findings in an initial study by one of the present authors, in which the fillings were placed in denture porcelain teeth.
(7) The quality of the alveolar ridge and the denture as well as the functional status of the craniomandibular system were evaluated in detail.
(8) I.--Full denture in patients who have received radiotherapy.
(9) The age and maintenance of dentures, and denture-cleaning habits, were studied by an interview survey.
(10) This permitted employment of cast combined crowns with wide perigingival metal rims to support the clasp dentures to make them look better when supplying 73 patients with partial removable dentures.
(11) A moderately positive correlation was found between satisfaction of the patient and quality of the dentures.
(12) A technique is described that allows the removable partial denture framework try-in and the impression for the altered cast to be efficiently completed in a single appointment.
(13) Complete dentures were made for 30 edentulous patients.
(14) The average difference in bite force between the men and the women was larger in the group with natural teeth than in the one with complete dentures.
(15) Dental conditions including the wearing of dentures was the reason most often given for not seeing a dentist on a regular basis.
(16) disfunctions; in female patients, the occurrence is slightly more than in male patients (respectively 34.7% and 23.3%); the "use of dentures" factor is slightly significant in comparison to not use of dentures; 50% of disfunctions are found among the 51 and 70 years age patients; the ruid is the more frequent sign of disfunction; the complain of pain in the condyle region is more frequent symptom of disfunction.
(17) The denture was then subjected to different loads and the stresses were photographically recorded.
(18) The purpose of this study was to determine whether differences existed in interincisor bite force discrimination between a group of subjects wearing complete dentures and a group of dentate individuals.
(19) The traditional alloys used as metal bases for fixed partial dentures are accompanied by various problems such as corrosion, allergy, toxicity, casting, and preparation for both patient and prosthodontist and in magnetic resonance imaging for diagnosis.
(20) A good complete denture should perform with physiologic characteristics, and restore masticatory function and oral health.