dental plaque

1. 1.

   a film of mucus and bacteria deposited on the teeth that encourages the development of dental caries

   Synonymsbacterial plaque

   Broaderplaque

Questions about dental plaque

What does dental plaque mean?

dental plaque means "a film of mucus and bacteria deposited on the teeth that encourages the development of dental caries".

What is another word for dental plaque?

Close synonyms include bacterial plaque. 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 plaque a common word?

dental plaque 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.