dental hygienist

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   someone trained to provide preventive dental service (cleaning teeth or taking x-rays)

   Broaderskilled worker

Questions about dental hygienist

What does dental hygienist mean?

dental hygienist means "someone trained to provide preventive dental service (cleaning teeth or taking x-rays)".

Is dental hygienist a common word?

dental hygienist 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.