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dental plate

n. a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth [syn: denture, plate]

Usage examples of "dental plate".

Handmade shoes, a beautiful dental plate, a pocket full of Corona-Coronas and a gold lighter to touch them off with, the ruddy complexion of a man who eats and drinks well and reestablishes the balance with months spent bobsleighing at St.

Anyway, she couldn't ID the boyfriend, and if the boyfriend was one of the Nite Owl stiffs we'll have him, 'cause Nort Layman took prison dental plate fragments out of his head back in '53.

I had to take off the shoes and put them outside the door, leave Manderson's jacket, waistcoat, trousers, and black tie, after taking everything out of the pockets, select a suit and tie and shoes for the body, and place the dental plate in the bowl, which I moved from the washing-stand to the bedside, leaving those ruinous finger-marks as I did so.

Finally he took out the microfilm and before I knew it he had his upper dental plate out and was putting the film roll into a container that fit into the upper gum plate.

It was her mother's dental plate, the metal bridge with a porcelain tooth she was so self-conscious about.

Two-story, with a porch that went all around, lots of windows and a railed upper deck, now sagging, like a dental plate hanging out of a drunks mouth.

Last of all he explored the gunman's half open mouth, withdrawing a dental plate.

The doctor assured us thatplastic surgery, a dental plate, and, in time,a prosthetic eye would re-create an almostnormal face, and that, when the swelling haddecreased, the casual observer might not givehim a second glance.

Trout paused, ensuring with the ball of his left thumb that his upper dental plate would not slip when he said his last words to us that enchanted evening.

Amid a stream of blood and saliva, the two halves of a dental plate fell out of his mouth.

Another quick motion and Carlotta Wynn, the fake Hag of the Opera, pulled from her mouth an odd dental plate to which was attached the fang which protruded from her mouth.