Definition of predental:
(adj) :
Before, and in preparation for, dental education.
(adj) :
In front of the teeth.
(n) :
A person studying predentistry.
(adj) :
an erroneous misconstruction arising from erroneous parsing of compounds such as pre–dental surgery anxiety as *predental surgery anxiety, originating from various kinds of error: copyeditorial errors, optical character recognition errors, and transcoding loss of hard hyphens misinterpreted as soft hyphens.