dentistry

1. (uncountable) The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity.Examples: "Some provision should be made for the truly suffering poor, and also for our present students of dentistry to learn something about dental surgery before commencing a profession which has almost become a science."; "A corporation may not operate a dentistry office unless all of its stockholders are licensed to practice dentistry."; "He was born near Middleton in 1853, graduated from Mount Allison, and took his dentistry degree at Philadelphia in 1878."uncountableusually

2. (uncountable) Operations performed on teeth and adjoining areas such as drilling, filling cavities, and placing crowns and bridges.Examples: "POOR Australians are resorting to do-it-yourself dentistry, including filing their own teeth and attempting their own extractions, because of lengthy queues for public dental services."; "This patient is an out-of-town physician who had to wait until retirement to complete his dentistry. He had holding pattern type dentistry done to get him by."uncountableusually

3. (countable) A dental surgery, an operation on the teeth.Examples: "Dr. Landsberg, of Posen, states that when children's teeth are put in order by means of school dentistries, anaemia, one of the most frequent school diseases, will be greatly diminished."; "I speak now only of your pet's bad breath. Dentistries will specifically improve the oral health of the pet as well as its overall health in the long term."countableusually

4. (countable, uncommon) A place where dental operations are performed.Examples: "They are very fond of sweet things; and the ladies especially crowd the “candystores,” which are not less numerous than the dentistries—with which business they are intimately connected."; "The author could dilate at great length on the possibilities in plant groceries, restaurants, and dentistries."; "As a first step, the law with be amended to prepare for the privatization of pharmacies and dentistries by end-2003."Synonyms: clinic, dentist's office, surgerycountableuncommonusually