beauty treatment | enhancement of someone's personal beauty |
maltreatment ill-treatment ill-usage abuse | cruel or inhumane treatment, the child showed signs of physical abuse |
cruelty inhuman treatment | a cruel act, a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering |
dental practice | the practice of dentistry |
dental care | care for the teeth |
treatment intervention | care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) |
shock therapy shock treatment | treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions |
insulin shock insulin shock therapy insulin shock treatment | the administration of sufficient insulin to induce convulsions and coma |
metrazol shock metrazol shock therapy metrazol shock treatment | the administration of sufficient Metrazol to induce convulsions and coma |
orthodontic treatment | dental treatment that corrects irregularities of the teeth or of the relation of the teeth to surrounding anatomy, treatment is usually by braces or mechanical aids, orthodontic treatment of facial abnormalities |
dental procedure | a procedure employed by a dentist |
treatment handling | the management of someone or something, the handling of prisoners, the treatment of water sewage, the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system |
silent treatment | an aloof refusal to speak to someone you know |
dental appliance | a device to repair teeth or replace missing teeth |
dental floss floss | a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth |
dental implant | an implant that replaces a natural tooth |
denture dental plate plate | a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth |
treatment | a manner of dealing with something artistically, his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture |
dental plaque bacterial plaque | a film of mucus and bacteria deposited on the teeth that encourages the development of dental caries |
dentistry dental medicine odontology | the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth |
dental surgery | the branch of dentistry involving surgical procedures |
orthodontics orthodontia orthodonture dental orthopedics dental orthopaedics | the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention or correction of irregularities of the teeth |
dental anatomy | the branch of gross anatomy concerning with the morphology of teeth |
Doctor of Dental Medicine DMD | a doctor's degree in dental medicine |
Doctor of Dental Surgery DDS | a doctor's degree in dental surgery |
alveolar consonant dental consonant alveolar dental | a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge |
discussion treatment discourse | an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic, the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic, his treatment of the race question is badly biased |
short shrift summary treatment | a brief and unsympathetic rejection, they made short shrift of my request |
dental school school of dentistry | a graduate school offering study leading to degrees in dentistry |
dental assistant | an assistant to a dentist |
dental hygienist | someone trained to provide preventive dental service (cleaning teeth or taking xays) |
dental technician denturist | someone who makes dental appliances (bridges and dentures) |
dental surgeon | a dentist qualified to perform surgical procedures |
dentist tooth doctor dental practitioner | a person qualified to practice dentistry |
cavity caries dental caries tooth decay | soft decayed area in a tooth, progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth |
a whole shebang whole kit and caboodle kit and caboodle whole kit and boodle kit and boodle whole kit whole caboodle whole works works full treatment | everything available, usually preceded by `the', we saw the whole shebang, a hotdog with the works, we took on the whole caboodle, for $ you get the full treatment |
amalgam dental amalgam | an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth, except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams |
dental gold | an alloy of gold used in dentistry |
dental | of or relating to the teeth, dental floss |
dental | of or relating to dentistry, dental student |