orthodontist

[awr-thuh-dahnt-ist]

noun

1. a dentist specializing in orthodontics.

Example Sentences

I’m a 30-year-old newly graduated orthodontist with substantial student debt, planning to live at home temporarily to pay it off.

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In her new book, she further relates that Cheever wrote the story reluctantly and in a hurry to pay her orthodontist, “a Tarrytown guy who had his eye on a larger house.”

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He owns a pet tortoise he named Tyrosine after an amino acid, and dreams of being an orthodontist after he retires from racing.

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As a pre-teen, freshly sprung from an orthodontist’s chair, my idea of heaven was a Wendy’s fry — natural-cut, skins freckled along the edges, salt like tiny rhinestones clinging to grease — dunked into a chocolate Frosty.

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He glanced at his 15-year-old, who wants to be an orthodontist, and was listening intently.

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