Definition of "periodontist" []

• A dentist whose speciality is periodontics (noun)

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• "Haiku Friday – I just got back from the periodontist and boy is my jaw tired; or – if it ends in "ectomy" it has to be bad"
• "Months earlier, my dentist told me that I needed to see a periodontist ASAP to avoid infection and that I would probably lose those teeth."
• ""When you put a dental implant in, you rely on the healing process to cement it to the jaw, so you get a higher failure rate with diabetes," says Ed Marcus , a periodontist in Yardley, Pa., who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University dental schools."