| DLC | Dental Laboratory Conference; differential leukocyte count; dual-lumen catheter |
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| DMD | disease-modifying drug; Doctor of Dental Medicine; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; dystonia musculorum ... |
| DPF | Dental Practitioners' Formulary; dilsopropyl fluorophosphate |
| DS | dead air space; dead space; deep sedative; deep sleep; defined substrate; dehydroepiandrosterone sul... |
| DT | defibillation threshold; delirium tremens; dental technician; depression of transmission; dietetic [... |
| faculty, dental | The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in a dental school. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| fees, dental | Amounts charged to the patient as payer for dental services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| laboratories, dental | Facilities in which the dentist or his auxiliaries perform services related to treatment not done directly in the patient's mouth. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Flower's dental index | Relation of the dental length (distance from the mesial surface of the first premolar to the distal surface of the third molar) to the basinasal (basion to nasion) length: (dental length ×100)/basinasal length, a system of numbers for indicating comparative size of the teeth. Synonym: Flower's dental index. (05 Mar 2000) |
| focal infection, dental | Secondary or systemic infections due to dissemination throughout the body of microorganisms whose primary focus of infection lies in the periodontal tissues. (12 Dec 1998) |
| legislation, dental | Laws and regulations pertaining to the field of dentistry, proposed for enactment or recently enacted by a legislative body. (12 Dec 1998) |
| licensure, dental | The granting of a license to practice dentistry. (12 Dec 1998) |