What's the difference between dentistry and odontology?
Dentistry
Definition:
(n.) The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
(2) The authors present a quite unused technique that helps to simplify the cavity preparation in Operative Dentistry.
(3) This is the first archaeological evidence of operative dentistry in ancient Israel, as well as the earliest date for this specific treatment in the world.
(4) By its actions, this musculature effects many phases of dentistry, directly or indirectly; and orthodontics is affected most of all.
(5) The use of glass-ionomer cements in clinical dentistry has expanded greatly over the last decade.
(6) This agent is used in dentistry as a vasoconstrictor (Neo-Cobefrin) and although its pharmacologic activilty is weaker than that of (-) norepinephrine, it appears that this agent can have significant pharmacologic effects at higher doses.
(7) If we are to attend to the entire health needs of our geriatric patients, then a thorough knowledge of veterinary dentistry is absolutely necessary.
(8) A preventive dentistry program conducted by 34 and 27 senior dental students as an integral part of children's clinic was evaluated.
(9) In order to maximize the prognosis, it is necessary to understand the patient, to make a thorough diagnosis, to coordinate the restoration with the other disciplines of dentistry, and to be knowledgeable of the spectrum of treatment modalities available.
(10) Behavior management in pediatric dentistry is taught as a clinical science and few dentists learn the historical basis of the techniques in use today.
(11) Multiple regression of this preventive orientation index on selected independent variables showed that, for the entire sample, variables representing involvement in academic and institutional dentistry, exposure to education through journals and courses, a predeliction for innovation, and the presence of a hygienist in the office, were most influential in creating a model that successfully predicted reported preventive behavior.
(12) A simple, manual current awareness service at the University of Southern California School of Dentistry, designed to provide the user with photocopied tables of contents from selected journals, is described.
(13) Voice control, a punishment technique based on loud commands, has been used widely in pediatric dentistry.
(14) The municipial Children's dentistry prevention committee to carry out the complex programme was formed in 1985.
(15) Part I of this study is to assess the dental instruments sterilization at the College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Random samples were taken from the CSSD for this purpose.
(16) A national survey of predoctoral community dentistry faculty members provided "ratings of importance" for each of 32 community dentistry topics.
(17) Explosive growth in high-technology imaging continues in dentistry as in all health sciences.
(18) The difficulties encountered in casting titanium and its alloys have until recently hindered any widespread use of titanium in restorative dentistry.
(19) The introduction of specialized syringes in the late 1970s and early 1980s has led to an increase in the use of intraligamentary anaesthesia as a means of pain control in dentistry.
(20) A group programme involving four sessions in which clients were taught anxiety management skills, exposed in imagination to situations relating, to dentistry, and given homework assignments was carried out with clients presenting with disproportionate dental anxiety.
Odontology
Definition:
(n.) The science which treats of the teeth, their structure and development.
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) Studies I and II described the patients' symptoms and complaints, as well as the clinical findings of many odontological and medical examinations.
(3) An aid is hereby presented for the dentist to understand and apply this type of insights, which are usually kept apart from a technical activity such as odontology.
(4) A great majority of the Swedish respondents (79 per cent) claimed that the patients should get their fillings changed without odontologic indications if they insisted on it and paid for the treatment in comparison to 22 per cent of the Finnish respondents (p less than 0.001).
(5) It is discussed in this paper whether it would be possible to protect, radio treatment permitting, for example the mandibular glands from irradiation in patients with maxillary tumours, by having odontology supply mouth fixtures, allowing for the maximum opening of the mouth during the irradiation part of the treatment.
(6) Otological and odontological departments seldom used TP.
(7) Thus, safe odontologic procedures may be carried on in patients during treatment with oral anticoagulants.
(8) The authors give general concepts about pharmacokinetic before the application of ionophoresis to odontology.
(9) We have studied a population of 527 school children between 6 and 17 years old, having as main characteristic to have free odontological care.
(10) With low interest in odontology, selection of students on the basis of minute differences in academic performance in the lower admission point scale is of limited value as a predictor of students' performance.
(11) This report summarizes the experience and the results acquired with a recent air crash, and insists on three suggestions: the necessity of a prepared identification team consisting of specialist in forensic medicine, in forensic odontology and specialist in forensic radiology, and the usefulness of a suitable structure for the study and the storage of the dead bodies, the need for a compilation of radiological informations, notably dental X-Ray examinations for the flying personnel.
(12) The Author has collaborate with the Anthos advised some sagacity and modifications, especially at the waterworks, for render "surgical" a regular odontological compact instrument.
(13) Such demographic data is generally available from physical or odontological anthropology departments in universities or museums.
(14) In aesthetic odontology with adhesive materials, a close liaison between manufacturers and dentists is a much-needed prerequisite.
(15) Results from a series of clinical studies concerning a possible relationship between galvanic currents and certain oral and other symptoms in a group of patients who had been referred to the Faculty of Odontology, University of Umeå, are briefly presented.
(16) The present paper offers an odontological data set for future comparative research in the area.
(17) The conclusion they came to is that the local anaesthetics with levo arterenol used in odontology in usual doses is not of risk even in patients who suffer from cardio vascular affections.
(18) A wide variety of restoration materials for prosthetic odontology is now available to the dental surgeon, either of the covalent type (acrylic resins), metallic (alloys), ionic (porcelains), or a combination of them, as in the so-called composites, such as the composite resins, or as ceramics-metals mixtures.
(19) In this context, forensic odontology is seen as providing that body of dental expertise necessary for the fulfillment of a number of social functions required by law, in both the civil and criminal arenas, with particular reference to the scientific identification of the dead, the investigation of bitemarks, the estimation of age and dental traumatology.
(20) Using the complex odontological feature of hypodontia and its variants as a model, the article shows that by including and interpreting new and little-known facts the amount of information gained from this feature can be increased considerably, as can its value towards kinship analysis.