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)

    “If she be not so to me,
    What care I how fair she be?”
    —George Wither (1588–1667)