odonto-, odont-, odon-, -odont, -odonic, -odontic, -odontia, -odontoid
(Greek: tooth, teeth)
gerodontics, gerodontia
1. The practice of dentistry among old people.
2. A reference to changes in the dental tissues that come with age.
3. The branch of dentistry focusing on the needs of senior citizens.
4. Also called dental geriatrics and geriodontics.
gerodontist, geriodontist
A dentist specializing in gerodontics.
gerodontology
The study of dentistry in relation to the aging, aged, or elderly.
haplodont
heterodont
Having teeth of different kinds or forms (incisors, canines, and molars), as most mammals.
Heterodontosaurids
These “different-teeth lizards”, from Early Jurassic southern Africa, where small, early bird-hipped bipeds resembling Fabrosaurids, their likely ancestors.
Heterodontosaurus
A “differently-toothed lizard” or “mixed-teeth lizard”; from Early Jurassic South Africa’s Cape Province. Named by English paleontologists Alfred W. Crompton and Alan J. Charig in 1962.
holodont
homodont
Used to describe vertebrates that have teeth that are all similar in shape and not of different shapes as in most non-mammalian vertebrates.
hypnodontia
The study of hypnosis in dentistry.
hypnodontics
The application of controlled suggestion and hypnosis to the practice of dentistry.
hypodontia
hypsodont
ichthyodont
A fossil tooth of a fish.
isodont, isodontous
1. Possessing all teeth of the same size and shape.
2. Of a snake, having maxillary teeth of the same size.
3. In zoology, having the teeth all alike, as some cetaceans.
Related "tooth, teeth" word units:
bruxo-;
dento-.
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