set of dentures
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsetanddenture
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set
noun
uk/set/us/set/
a group of similar things that belong together in ...
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denture
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈden.tʃər/us/ˈden.tʃɚ/
for or relating ...
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(Definition ofsetanddenturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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And "contents", it may be noted, may mean anything from an anchor or an astrolabe to asetofdenturesor a gold moidore.
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It is a fairly steep increase, particularly where a fullsetofdenturesis required.
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If he could only fit his department with an acceptablesetofdentures, heaven knows what his officials could achieve!
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Let us imagine the patient at the dentist's, either before the extraction or when he goes for the first fitting for asetofdentures.
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Why not have a clean sweep all at once and get asetofdentures?
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I can arrange for a dentist to come to see you, and you can have extractions and a newsetofdentures, but you have to pay.
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Would it not have been possible to make an even larger charge for the secondsetofdentures, except where they really resulted from a badly fitting first set?
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I could not quite follow the argument that the extraction of your teeth was the same thing as being supplied with a completesetofdentures.
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To his horror, he discovers a set of teeth but realizes it is a partialsetofdentures.
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Three years later, he began wearing a fullsetofdentures.
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In about 1820 he was asked to apply his craftsmanship to making asetofdentures.
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It is a remarkable fact that so large a sum of money is being spent on second sets of dentures.
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It will be known that people have lost many sets of dentures, spectacles and, may be, surgical boots in the floods.
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There are, in fact, certain disadvantages in duplication unless the individual who has two sets of dentures wears both of them regularly.
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That is one practical example of the disadvantages of having duplicate sets of dentures.
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What is done to prevent a patient getting two sets of dentures, one from one dentist and another from another dentist?
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It must be ascertained that a person has not gone to a number of places and obtained a number of subscriptions for sets of dentures or spectacles.
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Oral cancer has become particularly prevalent among the over-60s who, because many of them have full sets of dentures, are less than assiduous in visiting the dentist.
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