adjective
- located or occurring between the teeth
- produced by placing the tongue between the upper and lower teeth
Usage: medical; dental
Usage: linguistics; phonetics
Examples
- The dentist recommended using an interdental brush to clean between her teeth.
- Interdental cleaning is essential for preventing gum disease.
- The ‘th’ sound in English is an interdental consonant.
- She struggled to pronounce the interdental sounds in the foreign language.
- Interdental plaque can lead to serious oral health problems.
- The speech therapist worked on his interdental pronunciation.