Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A dental technician who specializes in making, fitting, and repairing dentures as a direct service to the public rather than through a licensed dentist.

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  • noun A person who makes and fits dentures

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who makes dental appliances (bridges and dentures)

Etymologies

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denture +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • Bean, pictured in the mug shot at right, described himself as a "denturist" and told cops that this was not the first time he had been nabbed for operating an unregistered lab.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • I have worked cleaning homes, been a church secretary, an administrative assistant in a denturist office, and currently in the food service industry as dishwasher/baker/prep person.

    Linux Gazette 2010

  • Istzer is a licensed Ontario denturist but does more than fit patients for dentures in the basement of his Thornhill home.

    Thestar.com - Home Page 2010

  • Bill would prevent Idahoans from having to purchase health care insurance Boise police find drugs, sawed-off shotgun, in car after traffic stop early Tuesday Nampa denturist accused of fondling patients charged with misdemeanor battery

    IdahoStatesman.com News Updates 2010

  • And I'm not prepared to use my tax $$$ to pay denturist to turn his ugly choppers into pearly light.

    The Chronicle Herald - Maintenance Feed 2009

  • And I'm not prepared to use my tax $$$ to pay denturist to turn his ugly choppers into pearly light.

    The Chronicle Herald - Maintenance Feed 2009

  • My denturist began to construct a partial, and, okay, sometimes bad things happen and maybe I can use it in a book (the accident, not the extractions}.

    OOM-PAH-PAH, OOM-PAH-PAH 2006

  • My denturist began to construct a partial, and, okay, sometimes bad things happen and maybe I can use it in a book (the accident, not the extractions}.

    November 2006 2006

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