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orthodontist

American  
[awr-thuh-dahnt-ist] / ˌɔr θəˈdɑnt ɪst /

noun

  1. a dentist specializing in orthodontics.


Example Sentences

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

From MarketWatch

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.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Salon

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

From Los Angeles Times