section_path: Terminology
section_name: Terminology
paragraph_text: Terminology
  
  The term dentistry comes from dentist, which comes from French dentiste, which comes from the French and Latin words for tooth. The term for the associated scientific study of teeth is odontology (from Ancient Greek: ὀδούς, romanized: odoús, lit. ' tooth ') – the study of the structure, development, and abnormalities of the teeth.