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Abstract
The profession concerned with the teeth, oral cavity, and associated structures, and the diagnosis and treatment of their diseases including prevention and the restoration of defective and missing tissue.
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- Dental Air Abrasion
- Dental Anesthesia
- Dental Atraumatic Restorative Treatment
- Dental Bonding
- Dental Care
- Dental Debonding
- Dental Equipment
- Dental Esthetics
- Dental General Practice
- Dental Health Surveys
- Dental High-Speed Technique
- Dental Infection Control
- Dental Models
- Dental Occlusion
- Dental Pins
- Dental Polishing
- Dental Research
- Dental Specialties
- Dental Stress Analysis
- Dental Technology
- Endodontics
- Evidence-Based Dentistry
- Forensic Dentistry
- Geriatric Dentistry
- Intraoral Electrogalvanism
- Jaw Relation Record
- Military Dentistry
- Mouth Rehabilitation
- Myofunctional Therapy
- Occupational Dentistry
- Odontometry
- Operative Dentistry
- Oral Diagnosis
- Oral Medicine
- Oral Pathology
- Oral Surgery
- Oral Surgical Procedures
- Orthodontics
- Periodontics
- Preventive Dentistry
- Prosthodontics
- School Dentistry
- Tooth Preparation
- Tooth Remineralization
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7 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends, veterinary.
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Indexing Annotation
/instrum = DENTAL INSTRUMENTS; DENTAL EQUIPMENT or other specifics; /legislation & jurisprudence = LEGISLATION, DENTAL or DENTISTRY + JURISPRUDENCE or FORENSIC DENTISTRY; veterinary dentistry = DENTISTRY /vet + VETERINARY MEDICINE
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History Note
AVIATION DENTISTRY was heading 1965-79
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Dentistry. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003813. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003813
- Dentistry. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentistry
- Dentistry. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12128