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- noun Plural form of
dentifrice .
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Examples
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She was well paid for posing, advertisements of toilet articles, face creams, dentifrices, and the like, especially if accompanied by testimonials, yielded something.
The Auction Block Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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A vinous decoction of wild mint and of pepper he considered particularly beneficial, though he thought that dentifrices, either powder or liquid, should also be used.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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He seems to recommend the powder dentifrices as more efficacious.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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The _treatment_ consists in removing the tartar from the teeth, applying strong antiseptics to the groove between the teeth and the gums, and employing mouth-washes and dentifrices.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Antiseptic mouth-washes and dentifrices are also indicated.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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When we read the composition of the tooth-powders and dentifrices used in early colonial days, we wonder that they had any teeth left to scour.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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I take this water to be [c] better worth then a thousand of their dentifrices.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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The principal constituent of these dentifrices is a powerful acid, and there are some which contain large quantities of sulphuric acid, one single application of which will destroy the best teeth in the world.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862
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Change to List B (Consolidated list of substances which are present in authorised medicines for general sale) The entry for formaldehyde solution in List B has been amended; it now includes products for external use other than dentifrices.
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