dental surgery
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Dahlia Lithwick: In a country that historically did beheadings, hangings, all sorts of objectively gross executions, the decision was made somewhere along the line to medicalize executions, to make it look like dental surgery.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
And he grew that beard—initially to hide disfiguring dental surgery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Hours after undergoing dental surgery, a 9-year-old girl from San Diego was found unresponsive in her home, according to officials who are investigating her death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
Teifi said as a result of chemotherapy some of their teeth had not grown properly so they are hoping to get reconstructive dental surgery.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2024
I don't know what they mean—doctor of dental surgery, I guess, or zoology or fractions or geography, or whatever has to do with rocks and animals and vertebraes.
From Ma Pettengill by Harry Leon Wilson
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