## Etymology
Formed from dentist plus the suffix -ry; dentist is from French dentiste, from dent ('tooth'), from Latin dens, dentem ('tooth'), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dont- ('tooth').

## AI Etymology
Dentistry has the etymological history Formed from dentist plus the suffix -ry; dentist is from French dentiste, from dent ('tooth'), from Latin dens, dentem ('tooth'), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dont- ('tooth'). The ancestry passes through Latin dens and Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts. In present use as a noun, it means "the branch of medicine concerned with the teeth and gums", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. Related words include dentist, dental, dentition, and dentine.

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