Dental Care

Dental care is the maintenance of healthy teeth. Forms include:

  • Oral hygiene, the practice of keeping the mouth and teeth clean in order to prevent cavities (dental caries), gum disease, and other dental disorders
  • Dentistry, the professional care of teeth, including professional oral hygiene and dental surgery

Famous quotes containing the words dental and/or care:

    “[T]hose wholemeal breads ... look hand-thrown, like studio pottery, and are fine if you have all your teeth. But if not, then not. Perhaps the rise ... of the ... factory-made loaf, which may easily be mumbled to a pap betweeen gums, reflects the sorry state of the nation’s dental health.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    “Jefferson Smith: I hate to stand here and try your patience like this, but either I’m dead right or I’m crazy.
    Senator MacPherson: You wouldn’t care to put that to a vote, would you, Senator?”
    —Sidney Buchman (1902–1975)