doctor of dental surgery

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   a doctor's degree in dental surgery

   SynonymsDDS

   Broaderdoctor's degree

Questions about doctor of dental surgery

What does doctor of dental surgery mean?

doctor of dental surgery means "a doctor's degree in dental surgery".

What is another word for doctor of dental surgery?

Close synonyms include DDS. 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 doctor of dental surgery a common word?

doctor of dental surgery 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.