What does orthodontist mean?
Word: Orthodontist
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Orthodontist means a dentist who straightens teeth and corrects the way they fit together.
How do you spell orthodontist?
Syllables: or - tho - don - tist
Tricky part: It starts with ortho, spelt with th as in thin; pupils who say it fast write ortodontist.
Watch out for: ortodontist, orthadontist
Memory tip: Ortho means straight, and an orthodontist makes teeth straight: learn o-r-t-h-o as one block that means straight.
Orthodontist in a sentence
Example 1: My orthodontist fitted braces on my top teeth and checks them every month.
Example 2: The orthodontist showed us a plaster model of my sister's teeth.
Example 3: Aarav has to visit the orthodontist in Bengaluru every six weeks.
Fun Fact
The American dentist Edward Angle, often called the father of modern orthodontics, opened one of the first schools to train orthodontists in 1900.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) physicion
b) chemmist
c) optition
d) orthodontist
Show answer
d) orthodontist. Optician and physician both end in cian, and chemist has a single m.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
orthod_nt_st
a) a, i
b) e, i
c) o, i
d) o, e
Show answer
c) o, i. The middle is don, rhyming with on, and the ending is ist, as in dentist.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
orthodonttist
a) s
b) t
c) d
d) n
Show answer
b) t. Nothing is doubled in this word, so the second t must go.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tnthsiodotro
a) orthodontist
b) orthopaedic
c) orthodontics
d) dentistry
Show answer
a) orthodontist. Orthodontics has a c, orthopaedic an a and a p, and dentistry a y; one option is left.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why might a twelve-year-old be sent to an orthodontist?
a) because their teeth do not line up
b) because they need new glasses
c) because their ankle is sprained
d) because they cannot hear well
Show answer
a) because their teeth do not line up
2. An orthodontist's patients are most often ____.
a) babies under two
b) people over seventy
c) children and teenagers
d) sports players only
Show answer
c) children and teenagers
