dental practitioner

Questions about dental practitioner

What does dental practitioner mean?

dental practitioner means "a person qualified to practice dentistry".

What is another word for dental practitioner?

Close synonyms include dentist, tooth doctor. 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 practitioner a common word?

dental practitioner 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.