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orthodontic

orthodontic \orthodontic\ a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to orthodontics or orthodontia.

Wiktionary
orthodontic

a. Of, or relating to the dental speciality of orthodontics.

WordNet
orthodontic

adj. of or relating to or involving or practicing orthodontics; "orthodontic braces"

Usage examples of "orthodontic".

She opened her mouth, exposing a ruin of what had probably been expensive orthodontic work, and laughed at him.

Thankfully, Charlotte had rescued him from the orthodontic surgeon with the disposal-chute obsessions.

Now and then his neighbours, the orthodontic surgeon and his wife, stepped on to their balcony and frowned at Laing, as if disapproving of the relaxed way in which he lay back in his reclining chair.

From the shadows outside his door the orthodontic surgeon emerged with studied casualness.

The familiar precise voice of the orthodontic surgeon called out to him.

The secret cache of cans he had long ago been obliged to surrender to the orthodontic surgeon next door.

His lower jaw protruded as if he suffered from some incurable orthodontic contraction.

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.

I hit my Aunt Leoda up for orthodontic treatment money and overquoted the amount required.

Four of the thirteen were on courses of prescribed drugs (for hay fever, asthma and tinnitus), five were receiving orthodontic treatment and one was under nominal psychiatric care (Jeremy Maxted, seventeen, for bed-wetting).