Ian Rankin

Being working class, my parents thought, 'Ian's going to uni, the first in the family,' and I'd do dentistry or accountancy. I was going to do accountancy; then I got a C in Economics and thought, 'Why am I doing this?' The only thing I was interested in was books and literature.

Scottish Writer

Roger Taylor

I played with a few local bands in the West Country, where I grew up, but when I was 18, I moved to London, which at that time was probably the most exciting musical city in the world. I was supposed to be studying dentistry, but all the time I was looking for a band to join.

American Musician

Preity Zinta

L.A. is wonderful. They have something called sleep dentistry. You just go there, and they put you to sleep and go, 'Drrrrrr,' and by the time you wake up a few hours later, you have a whole new set of teeth. I mean, whatever you want them to do.

Indian Actress

Larry Wilcox

Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.

American Actor

Peter Singer

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

Australian Philosopher

Ken Loach

It would be exciting to take part in what we now call the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century, but with modern dentistry.

English Director

Dick Cavett

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

American Entertainer

William Collins

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.

English Poet

Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.

Christian Bale

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.

Welsh Actor

Dentistry refers to a dentist's professional activities involving patient care.

Professional Practice

Dentistry is part of the healthcare sector, focusing on oral conditions.

Healthcare Sector

The term also encompasses cosmetic procedures, not only health-related ones.

Wide Applications

Dentistry is a field of academic study leading to a professional career.

Academic Discipline

Dentistry combines scientific knowledge with technical artistic skills.

Science and Art

Dentistry includes various specializations, such as orthodontics or periodontics.

Specialization Variety

 and it definitely did not revolutionize the world of dentistry, but it did completely change my life. Because I finished making this toothbrush helmet three years ago and after I finished making it, I went into my living room and I put up a camera, and I filmed a seven-second clip of it working.

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 or inform them, but actually leads them to make better decisions, better choices in their lives. One part of medicine, though, has faced the problem of behavior change pretty well, and that's dentistry. Dentistry might seem -- and I think it is -- many dentists would have to acknowledge

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 having a stent that's designed for you, for your own anatomy with your own tributaries, printed in an emergency situation in real time out of the properties such that the stent could go away after 18 really-game changing. Or digital dentistry, and making these kinds of structures

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 that's found on people everywhere. It's a type of fossilized dental plaque that is called officially dental calculus. Many of you may know it by the term tartar. It's what the dentist cleans off your teeth every time that you go in for a visit. And in a typical dentistry visit,

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 teeth every time that you go in for a visit and in a typical dentistry visit you may have about fifteen to thirty milligrams removed but in ancient times before tooth brushing up to 600 milligrams might have built up on the teeth over a lifetime and what's really

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 I said, "What is that, dad?" "A job." And so they pleaded with me to get a degree in something. So I got a degree and it turned out to be education. It was an experimental education program. It could have been dentistry, but the word "experimental" was in it,

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 where we have a good solution, I think the process I described, you know, productivity, quality, patient-centered care, can give an answer, and there are many which fit this paradigm. You take dentistry, hearing aid, maternity and so on.

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 Izzy Novak says, "I love dentistry. I can't imagine being anything else." But what about business? Many of you are in business, and we tend to think that business is more about cold numbers than hot passion, more about logic than love,

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 As a laser scientist, the answer was just before my Lasers, of course. If they can be used for dentistry, for diabetic wound-healing and surgery, they can be used for anything imaginable, including transporting drugs into cells.

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 he's got a stone stuck in her mouth and there's no telling how long it's been there that stone still in there first I got to get a rope on those jobs hold on like that okay honest restrains the croc and I do a little dentistry