WordNet
n. care for the teeth
Wikipedia
Dental care is the maintenance of healthy teeth and may refer to:
- Oral hygiene, the practice of keeping the mouth and teeth clean in order to prevent dental disorders
- Dentistry, the professional care of teeth, including professional oral hygiene and dental surgery
Usage examples of "dental care".
As aids, Gail, who had a gift for printing and sketching, had done a flip chart depicting examples of the dental care Eric could provide, even putting a small diamond in one crown when she had heard that Mike had included some flat-cut stones in their barterables.
The parents provide dental care while they're growing up, then the kids hit the streets, their diets and hygiene go to hell, and their teeth suffer.
While the dentist headed to the bathroom, she settled herself on a box of free antibacterial soap samples and ruminated about the speed traps, NASCAR taking over the island, and what the trooper had suggested about the Islanders' criminal dental care.
There are probably plenty of places where dental care didn't rank that high in those days.
None of the five had any dental work or unusual mouth or dental formation to justify a dental or orthodontic survey, particularly in view of the noticeable deposits of calculus he'd found in all five, indicating a lack of dental care.
It has to be somebody at the hospital who had dental care, who was close to Mail's size and age, and who was out at the same time, but there are hundreds of people who fit, all of them are mentally ill, and a lot of them are impossible to find.
None of the Doman's subjects would ever have to risk exposure by going out for medical, eye or dental care.
My dentist once told me that four-fifths of the population never received dental care in their lives.
In her early twenties, her beauty was already fading and her teeth were rotting because she had no access to dental care.
They don't seem to have any idea of dental care, and that probably interferes with proper eating.