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tooth decay

n. soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth [syn: cavity, caries, dental caries]

Usage examples of "tooth decay".

You wouldn't see this kind of tooth decay in a prehistoric specimen, and anyway it looks Caucasoid, not Native American.

That's something-you ought to see the vets scrubbing those big fangs so he doesn't get tooth decay.

Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation?

Even such long-endured traumas as tooth decay, childbirth, and the common cold became history.