(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.
Doctor
Definition:
(n.) A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.
(n.) An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.
(n.) One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.
(n.) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.
(n.) The friar skate.
(v. t.) To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
(v. t.) To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
(v. t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.
(v. i.) To practice physic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(2) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
(3) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
(4) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(5) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(6) Their significance in adding to the doctor's knowledge of the patient is delineated.
(7) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(8) Doctors may plausibly make special claims qua doctors when they are treating disease.
(9) There were 54 patients who had a family doctor, 38 felt he could assist in aftercare.
(10) In this way they offer the doctor the chance of preventing genetic handicaps that cannot be obtained by natural reproduction, and that therefore should be used.
(11) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
(12) This investigation examined the extent to which attitudes of doctors who participated in a one-year training programme for general practice changed in intended directions by training.
(13) Doctors have blamed rising levels of type 2 diabetes on the growing number of overweight and obese adults.
(14) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
(15) In 1968, nearly 60% of the malignant ovarian tumors were treated by doctors in internal medicine, surgery and radiology etc., rather than gynecology, which was partly because the primary site of the cancer was unknown during the clinical course and partly because the gynecologist gave up treatment of patients in advanced cases.
(16) Doctors, who once treated human body as an entity, are so specialized that none seems to know any more that the head bone is still indirectly connected to the great toe.
(17) This paper describes a computer-based system that would allow doctors, patients, nurses, researchers and experts to participate in medical care in ways that will enhance the usefulness of the system, and will allow the system to grow, adapt and improve as a function of this participation.
(18) Twenty-five of the 29 eligible doctoral programs in nursing participated in the study; results are based on the responses of 326 faculty, 659 students, and 296 alumni.
(19) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.