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What is the noun for periodontics?

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periodontics
  1. (dentistry) The study of supporting structures of teeth—gums, alveolar bone, cementum, and the periodontal ligament—and diseases and conditions that affect them.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Basic services such as fillings, oral surgery, periodontics and endodontics would be 70 per cent covered.”
      “Dental surgery, dental prostheses, periodontics and orthodontic treatment, with the exception of dental treatment as per our definition.”
      “Stating this here today, he said it would be started in the area of oral surgery, orthodontics, prosthodontics, and periodontics and conservation dentistry.”
periodontosis
  1. Any of certain chronic periodontal diseases that exhibit degenerative bony changes.
  2. Examples:
    1. Periodontosis in a child resulting in exfoliation of the teeth.”
periodontoclasia
periodontist
  1. A dentist whose speciality is periodontics
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Alternatively you may be referred to a periodontist, a dentist who specialises in treating periodontitis.”
      “If you have gum disease, a periodontist may be able to help you, but it can involve surgery and expense.”
      “Often, it's a dentist or periodontist who is the first to identify a systemic health problem because of what they see in the patient's mouth.”
periodontologist
  1. One who works in the field of periodontology.
periodontopathogen
periodontology
  1. (dentistry) Periodontics
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  3. Examples:
    1. “More than 30 specialists in periodontology and dentists, as well as 4 universitary clinics took part in this research.”
      “He is also the A. Lee Loomis professor of periodontology and interim chairman of the oral medicine, infection and immunity department there.”
      “His father was the chairman of periodontology at the Tufts School of Dental Medicine in Boston, where he also had a practice.”
periodontopathogens
  1. plural of periodontopathogen
periodontologists
  1. plural of periodontologist
periodontists
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