odontologist

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English

Etymology

odontology +‎ -ist

Noun

odontologist (plural odontologists)

  1. One who studies teeth.
    • 2007 January 28, Fernanda Santos, “Evidence From Bite Marks, It Turns Out, Is Not So Elementary”, in New York Times:
      “If you say that this bite fits this person and nobody else in the world, and if you use the bite mark as the only piece of physical evidence linking an attacker to his victim, that’s not science — that’s junk,” said Dr. Richard Souviron, chief forensic odontologist at the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office.