the dentist
noun
variants
or the dentist's
: the place where a dentist works
I saw her at the dentist last week.
He goes to the dentist's for a check-up every six months.
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Most of them are permanently affixed to your teeth and require the dentist to remove varying amounts of tooth enamel.
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Adrienne Dellwo, Verywell Health, 8 Jan. 2025
As the dentist predicted, birders eventually arrived, too, largely finding her home by word of mouth.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 3 Jan. 2025
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The first place Aspen, 3, took the cicada outside the house was to the dentist for her first teeth-cleaning appointment.
—Jordan Greene, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Using fluoride mouth rinses or going to the dentist to get fluoride treatments would be much more expensive.
—Pien Huang, NPR, 9 Jan. 2025
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Adrienne Dellwo, Verywell Health, 8 Jan. 2025
As the dentist predicted, birders eventually arrived, too, largely finding her home by word of mouth.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 3 Jan. 2025
Little Girl Goes Viral After Spending Walmart Gift Card on Rotisserie Chicken: 'My Kind of Girl'
The first place Aspen, 3, took the cicada outside the house was to the dentist for her first teeth-cleaning appointment.
—Jordan Greene, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Using fluoride mouth rinses or going to the dentist to get fluoride treatments would be much more expensive.
—Pien Huang, NPR, 9 Jan. 2025
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“The dentist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20dentist. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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