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Cabinet dentaire
Broken tooth? Jaw pain? If you need any dental work done while traveling, you’ll be glad you sank your teeth into this French vocabulary.
| At the dentist’s office | Chez le / la dentiste * | |
| appointment | un rendez-vous | |
| dentist | un/e dentiste | |
| dentist’s office | le cabinet dentaire | |
| ~ insurance card | la carte vitale | |
| dental assistant | un assistant dentaire une assistante dentaire |
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| patient | un patient une patiente |
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| specialist | un/e spécialiste | |
| waiting room | la salle d’attente |
* In French, it’s typical to use chez + job title to refer to some places of business – learn more.
| tooth | la dent | |
| Tooth Fairy | ~ la petite souris | |
| baby tooth | la dans de lait | |
| back tooth | la dent du fond | |
| canine tooth | la canine | |
| front tooth | la dent de devant | |
| lower tooth | la dent du bas | |
| molar | la molaire | |
| upper tooth | la dent du haut | |
| wisdom tooth | la dent de sagesse | |
| gums | la gencive | |
| jaw | la mâchoire | |
| lip | la lèvre | |
| mouth | la bouche | |
| abscess | un abcès | |
| bridge | un bridge | |
| broken tooth | une dent cassée | |
| cavity | une carie | |
| crown | la couronne | |
| filling | un plombage une obturation |
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| gap | un écart* | |
| infected | infecté(e) | |
| injection | une piqûre | |
| local anesthetic | une anesthésie locale | |
| Novocain | la Novocaïne | |
| overbite | une supraclusion | |
| permanent tooth | une dent définitive | |
| root canal | le canal dentaire | |
| teeth cleaning | le détartrage | |
| temporary | provisoire | |
| toothache | un mal aux dents | |
| underbite | une infraclusion | |
| Verbs | Verbes (click for conjugations) | |
| to bleed | saigner | |
| to brush (one’s teeth) | se brosser (les dents) | |
| to hurt | avoir mal | |
| to lose | perdre | |
| to open open your mouth |
ouvrir ouvrez la bouche |
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| to pull (out), remove | arracher | |
| to replace | remplacer | |
| to rinse | rincer | |
| to spit | cracher |
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