dental assistant

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   an assistant to a dentist

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Questions about dental assistant

What does dental assistant mean?

dental assistant means "an assistant to a dentist".

Is dental assistant a common word?

dental assistant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.