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Dental vs Alveolectomy - What's the difference?

dental | alveolectomy |

As nouns the difference between dental and alveolectomy

is that dental is (veterinary medicine) cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth while alveolectomy is the surgical reshaping of the alveolar ridge to facilitate dental prosthesis.

As an adjective dental

is of or concerning the teeth, as in dental care .

dental

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or concerning the teeth, as in dental care .
  • Of or concerning dentistry.
  • (phonetics) Made with the tongue touching the teeth, as in dental fricative .

    • Synonyms

    * (pertaining to teeth)

    Related terms

    * dentist * dentulous * edentulous

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (veterinary medicine) Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth.
  •  (label) A dental sound.

    • Synonyms

    * (sense, cleaning and polishing of animal's teeth) prophy

    Anagrams

    * ----

    alveolectomy

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • the surgical reshaping of the alveolar ridge to facilitate dental prosthesis