Dentistry

Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is a branch of medicine that consists of the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions of the oral cavity, commonly in the dentition but also the oral mucosa, and of adjacent and related structures and tissues, particularly in the maxillofacial (jaw and facial) area.

Medieval dentistry

Quotes

• DENTIST, n. A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket.
  • Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

• You mean people pay you to do this to them? I thought you had captured these people and brought them here against their will! How do I become a dentist?
  • Michael Buckley, Magic and Other Misdemeanors (2007)

• ... The first dentist I had for about 30 years, until he finally retired. ...
  The next three dentist changes all happened within a matter of maybe a year. I heard none of these young dentists owned the practice or could even begin to think of owning it. But they owed someone—and lots, on their student loans. I would guess in the ballpark of $400k of more.
  Apparently another out-of-state retired dentist had worked himself into the "investor class" of society, letting my childhood dentist cash out his practice and retire himself. I wondered if the revolving door of young dentists I was experiencing had anything to do with how they were starting out so deep in the hole after dental school—moving to where they could get the best pay, cheapest housing, and shortest commute.
  • Joshua J. Judy, "Chapter 1. Do No Harm". Ripple of Change: A burned-out physician and his frustrated patient deploy razor-sharp insight, experience, and irreverent humor to launch a sorely needed discussion on today's healthcare system. Our Quadruple Aim Media, LLC. 2023. p. 3. ISBN 979-8-9873644-0-6.  by Todd R. Otten, M.D. & Joshua J. Judy, Patient

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 188-89.

• My curse upon thy venom'd stang,
  That shoots my tortured gums alang;
  And through my lugs gies monie a twang,
  Wi' gnawing vengeance,
  Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang,
  Like racking engines!
  • Robert Burns, Address to the Toothache.

• One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.
  • William Hazlitt, Shakespeare Jest Books. Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies, No. 84.

• Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where,
  Then spoke I to my girle,
  To part her lips, and showed them there
  The quarelets of pearl.
  • Robert Herrick, The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls.

• Those cherries fairly do enclose
  Of orient pearl a double row,
  Which, when her lovely laughter shows,
  They look like rosebuds fill'd with snow.
  • Set to music by Richard Alison, An Howre's Recreation in Musike. See Oliphant's La Messa Madrigalesca, p. 229.

• I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
  • Job, XIX, 20.

• Thais has black, Læcania white teeth; what is the reason? Thais has her own, Læcania bought ones.
  • Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book V, Epigram 43.

• I have the toothache.
  * * * * * *
  What! sigh for the toothache?
  • William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act III, scene 2, line 21.

• For there was never yet philosopher
  That could endure the toothache patiently.
  • William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act V, scene 1, line 35.

• In the spyght of his tethe.
  • John Skelton, Why Come Ye nat to Courte, line 939.

Teeth

• Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "If I had not found it hard for my followers or the people, I would have ordered them to clean their teeth with Siwak for every prayer."
  • Sahih Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 13, Number 12: Friday Prayer. In The Translation of the Meanings Of Sahih Al-Bukhari by Muhammad Muhsin Khan, 1971.

• I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
  • Carol Burnett

• Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
  • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote.

• Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
  • Benito Mussolini

• The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.
  • George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

• The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are, the more it hurts to touch them.
  • George Bernard Shaw, quoted in "The burden of ethics", Mark Vernon,The Guardian.

• Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
  • Bertrand Russell, "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish", Unpopular Essays (1950).

• I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
  • Jonathan Swift

• I will be flesh and blood;
  For there was never yet philosopher
  That could endure the toothache patiently,
  However they have writ the style of gods
  And make a push at chance and sufferance.
  • William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

• Thirty white horses on a red hill,
  First they champ,
  Then they stamp,
  Then they stand still.
  • The Hobbit Ch.5, written by J.R.R. Tolkien