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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Examples
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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
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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
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Istzer is a licensed Ontario denturist but does more than fit patients for dentures in the basement of his Thornhill home.
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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
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And I'm not prepared to use my tax $$$ to pay denturist to turn his ugly choppers into pearly light.
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And I'm not prepared to use my tax $$$ to pay denturist to turn his ugly choppers into pearly light.
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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}.
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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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