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the only person who asks questions while making it impossible to answer

means a doctor who specializes in the care of teeth and gums, treating decay, performing extractions, and keeping mouths healthy.

from From French dentiste, built on Latin dens, dentis meaning 'tooth' — the same root that gives us 'dental' and 'denture.' The word arrived in English in the mid-18th century, replacing the older and blunter 'tooth-drawer.' That Latin dens traces back to a Proto-Indo-European root that also seems to underlie 'tooth' itself, making the two words distant cousins separated by thousands of years.

old drill
Ancient drills used bowstrings to spin them by hand
founding father
Paul Revere worked as an early American dentist
high stress
The profession long ranked high for suicide risk
sugar foe
They profit from the candy they warn you against
for instance

pierre fauchard — french physician credited as founder of modern dentistry in 1728

lucy hobbs taylor — first woman to graduate from dental school in ohio, 1866

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