dental medicine

Questions about dental medicine

What does dental medicine mean?

dental medicine means "the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth".

What is another word for dental medicine?

Close synonyms include dentistry, odontology. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dental medicine a common word?

dental medicine 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.