What's the difference between dentist and quack?

Dentist


Definition:

  • (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.

Quack


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
  • (v. i.) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
  • (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
  • (n.) The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
  • (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
  • (n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
  • (a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The agency has worked with other authorities to move against quack AIDS products and to educate the public concerning this health fraud.FDA hopes that through all these efforts it can help researchers in government, academia, and industry advance the development, testing, and review of safe and effective therapies, preventatives,and diagnostics for AIDS and related conditions.
  • (2) The FPC has neither, so it risks just going quack- quack on a murky pond," he said.
  • (3) Never mind that it muddies the debate (the Le Pen dynasty and the millionaire Nigel Farage somehow turn out to be the real victims in all this) and trivialises the very people to whom the quack is pretending to genuflect.
  • (4) A collection of poems by his widow Karen Green, entitled Bough Down, won praise earlier this year , and Quack This Way , a tribute from his friend Bryan A Garner was published this month.
  • (5) Their ruling will help young people Duncan Smith's department had pushed into quack schemes on pain of losing their benefit.
  • (6) No politician can keep a promise to bring back jobs – especially not Donald Trump Read more Like all good quack analysis, it is instantly digestible, it makes little demands of its audience: no scouring of footnotes nor leafing through history.
  • (7) Brome, western wheat, and quack grasses demonstrated RAST inhibition patterns similar to the northern grasses.
  • (8) Mega-projects have become the quack remedies of modern politics.
  • (9) But it isn't only quack journals that have failures in peer review.
  • (10) We are taught to bark like dogs, quack like ducks around the same time we are learning the words for mummy and daddy.
  • (11) The policy quacks urge us to breezeblock the greenbelt.
  • (12) These objects include radium in devices which were used by legitimate medical practitioners for legitimate medical purposes such as therapy, as well as a wide variety of "quack cures."
  • (13) It was a quick political fix, a quack’s remedy that seemed to deal with the symptoms in the short term when it was really just aggravating the causes.
  • (14) If this is not double-dip recession it is certainly starting to walk, talk and quack like one.
  • (15) State media alleged that in pursuit of profits, Baidu had allowed its online health forums to become “flooded with quacks and advertisements for unlicensed hospitals”.
  • (16) Cue Baxter’s own recollection of her angst about the jab, which concluded with the claim that some parents were “being used by a quack and a fraud”.
  • (17) The structure of sinistrin from red squill (Urginea maritima) was determined by methylation analysis and 13C NMR spectroscopy, using the fructans from Pucinella peisonis and quack-grass (Agropyron repens) as reference substances.
  • (18) George Orwell berated them as "fruit juice drinkers, nudists, sex maniacs, Quakers, nature-cure quacks, pacifists and feminists", while others have, outrageously, labelled them Guardian writers and readers.
  • (19) For Robert De Niro to use the platform of his internationally known film festival to lend credibility to a quack peddling toxic misinformation about autism is, among other things, a flagrant abuse of power and privilege – yes, white power and privilege.
  • (20) He doesn’t look particularly comfortable, writes resident Guardian quack Dr Murray, who has no clue whatsoever if he’s being honest.