DENTAL SURGERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dental surgery mean? 

• DENTAL SURGERY (noun)
  The noun DENTAL SURGERY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of dentistry involving surgical procedures

  Familiarity information: DENTAL SURGERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DENTAL SURGERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of dentistry involving surgical procedures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("dental surgery" is a kind of...):

dental medicine; dentistry; odontology (the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dental surgery"):

exodontia; exodontics (the branch of dentistry dealing with extraction of teeth)

 Context examples 

The Doctor of Dental Surgery degree is the first-professional, postgraduate degree awarded for graduates who have completed a program of studies in dental surgery.

(Doctor of Dental Surgery, NCI Thesaurus)

Sometimes a full moon in the eighth house, as you will have, will bring on the need for medical or dental surgery.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This month would also be a good time to see about having any dental procedure completed, including tooth whitening or dental surgery and also to focus on bone strength.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Ideally, it is best not to have Mars in the sign that rules the body part on which you are considering having medical or dental surgery.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A packed eighth house of planets might bring up a discussion on medical or dental surgery.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)