(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.
Operatory
Definition:
(n.) A laboratory.
Example Sentences:
(1) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
(2) Post operatory followed up by all patients ranged from one to seven years.
(3) Per-operatory assays showed that in patients with gallbladder disease or with cystic duct obstruction, ampicillin levels in the gallbladder bile were markedly lower than in the common duct bile.
(4) The operatory technic used is very classic: septoplasty as the first step, then rhinoplasty by extra mucosal way, with paramedial and lateral osteotomies allowing rebuilding of nasal osseous pyramid.
(5) The preventive-surface care operatory is the most basic yet most widely usable operatory.
(6) This paper discusses methods for improving vision in the dental operatory and details a new design for eyeglasses suitable for the presbyopic dentist.
(7) Post-operatory morbidity is 4.7% and mortality of 0.9%.
(8) On average, it took the students five minutes and four seconds to place the rubber dam and begin providing treatment to the patients attending the school's dental operatory.
(9) The post-operatory complications were present in 4 cases: in the same patient (15 months old) a hepatic artery thrombosis and then a portal vein thrombosis were observed; 3 patients had to have their biliary-digestive anastomosis redone.
(10) The unusually long period of time that the tooth survived might be attributed to a different approach to the replantation technique, such as occlusion adjustment prior to replantation, preoperative reduction of oral cavity bacteria and of the harmful aerosols commonly found in the dental operatory, placement of a noneugenol periodontal packing under the acrylic splint to prevent residual liquid monomer from seeping into the periodontal space, use of the patient's own blood and no other material to moisten the root while it was out of the socket, a short extraoral period, loose splinting, complete isolation of the operative site in the oral cavity, and completion of periodontal therapy before intentional replantation.
(11) In contrast, when the Rt lesion is complete, and whether the GLv is touched or not, the threshold increase is both higher and does not come down to the pre-operatory levels even after 15 post-operatory sessions.
(12) In this group, there was not gain on post-operatory infections complications nor on hospital staying, since this surgery has a little number of infections complications.
(13) The variables examined: Working hours per day, working days per week, weeks of holiday per year, patients treated per year, number of dental assistants, number of operatories room.
(14) The authors report their experience of per-operatory angiography in a series of 1,099 cases over 13 consecutive years.
(15) This case shows an other topographic possibility to post operatory aneurysm, mainly developed on the intracranial internal carotid artery or her branches.
(17) Results suggest that pre-existing dental fear levels may produce greater self-report, behavioral or physiological arousal in the dental operatory than exogenous epinephrine.
(18) Furthermore, to illustrate several of the techniques proposed, we have during the month of May 1990, systematically filmed different behavior patterns of children in the waiting room, as well as, in the dental operatory.
(19) A low-cost portable dental operatory system has been developed for the provision of removable prosthodontic services to the Alzheimer's patient.
(20) Most respondents washed or removed their gloves before leaving the operatory to process films, thereby stopping the spread of saliva.