denture

A denture is a section of false teeth, made to replace missing teeth in a person's mouth. Some kinds of dentures need to be soaked in a cleansing solution overnight.

  • Pronunciation: / ˈdɛntʃɚ/
  • English description: a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
  • Synonyms: dental plate
  • Chinese Translation: 假牙(jia3 ya2)
  • Spanish Translation: la dentadura
  • ORIGIN: The denture part of a dental appliance is officially the plate to which false teeth are attached, but people tend to refer more generally todentures, meaning the whole device. If an accident or dental disease causes you to lose adult teeth, you can have a dentist make dentures that are fitted exactly to your mouth. Some of these are permanent, while others are removable. Denture comes from the Latin root dens, "tooth."

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  • Services include cleanings, fillings, extractions, root canals and denture and partial adjustments.
  • One takes out his dentures and exercises his facial muscles, another eyes the competition around him carefully.

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