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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dental
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dental clinic (=treating problems with teeth)
▪ a specialist dental clinic
a dentist’s/dental appointment
▪ She has a dental appointment, so she won’t be in until later.
dental floss
dental hygienist
dental nurse
dental surgeon
dental treatment
▪ You may be entitled to free dental treatment.
go for a medical/dental etc check
▪ She advised me to go for a medical check.
oral/dental hygiene
tooth/dental decay
▪ Eating too much sugar causes tooth decay.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
appointment
▪ She has a dental appointment this afternoon and she's been a little bit nervous about it.
▪ Nobody gets injured, but some one may be called to supper or a dental appointment and require a substitute.
▪ I was already forty-five minutes late for a dental appointment and had plenty of time to reflect upon the day.
▪ So if you dash to work unfed, you're more likely to forget that vital mid-morning phone call or dental appointment.
▪ She's moaning about all your dental appointments, saying it would be better if you could go after school.
▪ But you haven't had any dental appointments, have you?
care
▪ Ships called every fortnight, providing the islanders with medical and dental care, and commercial and travel opportunities.
▪ Most senior citizens also lack coverage for prescription drugs and dental care, which are not covered by Medicare.
▪ The Community Dental Service is required to provide clinical dental care for those patients refused dental treatment by a general dental practitioner.
▪ Proposition 186 would cover prescriptions for everyone, preventive dental care for adults and full dental care for children.
▪ The monthly fee covers continuous ordinary dental care.
▪ Proposition 186 would cover prescriptions for everyone, preventive dental care for adults and full dental care for children.
▪ Others are planned for dental care.
check
▪ In addition higher charges were made for all forms of dental treatment and new charges introduced for sight and dental checks.
▪ These Seventies coup s turn up at auctions like bad teeth at an infant's school dental check.
▪ And despite complaining about charges for dental checks, it would not consider removing them for years.
▪ Regular dental checks will help make sure that dentures fit.
dam
▪ So it's no wonder that we have heard very little about dental dams.
▪ She and her partner, woman or man, need to know about dental dams.
▪ Yet in Manchester, where I live, there is no freely available information about outlets for dental dams.
decay
▪ More than half have dental decay in their milk teeth, and she believes that the problem is increasing.
▪ Hypoplastic teeth with advanced dental decay are also observed.
▪ We found no association between extent of active dental decay and risk of coronary heart disease.
▪ My father, a dentist of the old school, believed that milk encouraged dental decay.
▪ A fluoride mouth wash will help to prevent dental decay.
▪ Water fluoridation costing £260,000 is to restart to protect against dental decay in the region.
disease
▪ The essential question is whether the association between dental disease and coronary heart disease is causal.
▪ Is there any tenderness over the sinuses or evidence of ear or dental disease? 7.
▪ In conclusion, we found an association of coronary heart disease with periodontal disease and other measures of dental disease.
floss
▪ In the bathroom she slid dental floss in and out between her teeth.
▪ Use dental floss to sew buttons on to heavy fabric such as coats.
▪ I manoeuvre the dental floss into place in front of an aghast Lucker, and whip them away, as Laverne instructed.
▪ The best way of gittin' them off is with dental floss.
health
▪ Thus the impact of an increased risk of coronary heart disease associated with poor dental health could be substantial.
▪ Poor dental health was also encountered in many segments of the population.
▪ The study of past dental health can provide only general indications about the food eaten.
▪ In the interest of good dental health, however, it is a wise idea.
▪ He showed that five years later the dental health of children in Kilmarnock had deteriorated.
▪ These have included discipline, road safety and dental health.
hygiene
▪ Regular brushing is the lynchpin of all good dental hygiene.
hygienist
▪ Ask your dentist or dental hygienist for advice on using floss.
▪ A high percentage of telephone operators are black, for example, but only a very small proportion of dental hygienists are.
problem
▪ Pegged out: dental problems may be a symptom of other illness in the body, above.
▪ And dental problems increase alarmingly with age.
▪ In short, nearly one in three possessed physical defects, a figure which took no account of dental problems or defective vision.
▪ The message that prevention is better than cure applies just as much to dental problems as it applies to heart disease.
record
▪ A postmortem examination will take place in Vancouver later today to confirm identification from dental records.
▪ Full-timers carry medical and dental records and must be willing to rotate doctors.
▪ The inquest heard they could only be identified using dental records.
▪ He called for additional dental records to compare with autopsy findings.
▪ It could only be identified by dental records and fingerprints.
▪ Traditionally forensic scientists have relied on dental records and presumptive identifications by relatives.
▪ He was identified by dental records and fingerprints.
▪ His dentist had supplied dental records.
school
▪ They are employed at the moment at the university-run dental school which is due to close next year.
▪ They told him that their plan, at the time, was to recruit primarily from medical and dental schools.
▪ I saw more of Mama and Dad in those months, too, than I had since my years in dental school.
▪ Doc Holliday had been to dental school in Baltimore, and he had good hands.
surgeon
▪ Thus dental surgeons were to be even more out of pocket.
surgery
▪ If the tooth is loosened in its socket, modern dental surgery may be able to fix it to adjacent teeth.
▪ The familiar smell of the dental surgery comes from oil of cloves, a component of some dental cements.
▪ We have our own dental surgery, physio department, dispensary, X-ray unit.
▪ I was allowed no anaesthetic because I was so drunk, but felt nothing of the emergency dental surgery or stitches.
▪ People who can't afford private treatment will be forced to visit school dentists or mobile dental surgeries.
treatment
▪ Products offered by service industries include hospital care, dental treatment, holiday arrangements and accountancy services, for example. 5.
▪ In addition higher charges were made for all forms of dental treatment and new charges introduced for sight and dental checks.
▪ In midst of massive dental treatment - it feels like the rebuilding of Windsor Castle in my jaw.
▪ Nor was there any notice explaining how to get dental treatment on the National Health Service.
▪ The Community Dental Service is required to provide clinical dental care for those patients refused dental treatment by a general dental practitioner.
work
▪ I suggested he might consider a spot of dental work, too.
▪ Then where would they be, with the high cost of dental work?
▪ Teeth are an almost certain identification if any dental work has been done, and if the dentist concerned can be found.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dental treatment
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A month later, he was forced to step down as dean of the dental department at the college.
▪ After all, we plan for meals, work, dental visits, errands, and television programs.
▪ In addition higher charges were made for all forms of dental treatment and new charges introduced for sight and dental checks.
▪ Then they learn that Lincoln employees receive no company-paid dental insurance benefits, no paid holidays, and have no sick leave.
▪ Then, going through the Wanted Ads in the newspaper, I actually saw three advertisements asking for dental mechanics' assistants.
▪ They told him that their plan, at the time, was to recruit primarily from medical and dental schools.
▪ Thus the impact of an increased risk of coronary heart disease associated with poor dental health could be substantial.
▪ Water fluoridation costing £260,000 is to restart to protect against dental decay in the region.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dental

dental \den"tal\ (d[e^]n"tal), a. [L. dens, dentis, tooth: cf. F. dental. See Tooth.]

  1. Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.

  2. (Phon.) Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d and t are dental letters.

    Dental formula (Zo["o]l.), a brief notation used by zo["o]logists to denote the number and kind of teeth of a mammal.

    Dental surgeon, a dentist.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dental

1590s, from Middle French dental "of teeth" or Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens (genitive dentis) "tooth," from PIE root *dent- (see tooth).

Wiktionary
dental

a. 1 Of or concerning the teeth, as in ''dental care''. 2 Of or concerning dentistry. 3 (context phonetics English) Made with the tongue touching the teeth, as in ''dental fricative''. n. 1 (context veterinary medicine English) Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth. 2 (label en phonetics) A dental sound.

WordNet
dental
  1. adj. of or relating to the teeth; "dental floss"

  2. of or relating to dentistry; "dental student"

Wikipedia
Dental

Dental may refer to:

  • Having to do with teeth
  • Dentistry, a medical profession dealing with teeth
  • Dental consonant, in linguistics
  • Dental Records, an independent UK record label

Usage examples of "dental".

Hamburg that fall, he began visiting Senguen in Greifswald on weekends, until she moved to the German city of Bochum one year later to enroll in dental school.

Occasionally Brother Carpenter stopped to frown disapprovingly at it, then to work on the creases around the eyes with a dental pick, or caress between the fingers with fine sandpaper.

Moves into a comfortable apartment in Emden and takes out several patents on a type of dental cement which he invented and which he manufactures with his wife and a servant.

Schacht is already in his heart committed to a dental career, and he even interns twice a week for a root-specialist over at the National Cranio-Facial Pain Foundation, in east Enfield, when not touring.

Finally, using a dental fretsaw, he made two lengthwise cuts in the stem of the plunger to receive his slender plastic vanes.

His head was bare in the sun, his hair that shiny, stiff old-man white that made Tess think of dental floss.

A pathologist may analyze the organs and brain, an entomologist the insects, an odontologist the teeth and dental records, a molecular biologist the DNA, and a ballistics expert the bullets and casings, while the forensic anthropologist pores over the bones.

There was also a Dental station where OCME forensic odontologists were in charge.

Bell the psychogeneticist says, overspecialization, be it mental, as in the human scientist, or dental, as in the saber-tooth tiger, is just a synonym for extinction.

They promised these potions would wipe out pneumonia, make you taller and sexier, fix your rheumatism, fill dental cavities, and grow back hair!

The screenwriter loved that moment after the Skywalk when the boy is descending on the dental trapeze, spinning in the spotlight as the gleaming sequins on his singlet throw back the light.

Since it has been found that obsessing spirits are sensitive to pain, I am constrained to suggest that such cures as announced by the Trenton Hospital may, at least in part, be due to the fact that intruding spirits were dislodged, by dental or surgical interference.

Bridgetown Grill was hotter still, flaring with the spit and sizzle of Jamaican cooking in the open kitchen that ran the length of the narrow gallery painted with palm trees and crowded by fast-talking dental hygienists whose glasses kept steaming up, and by white rastas whose dreads drabbled through their blackened fish and hot sauce unnoticed.

They used dental lavers as they dried before warm streams of forced air.

He was driven to a local hospital, where technicians took dental X rays and samples of his hair, blood, and saliva.