Asymmetric hyphenation?

I want to talk about things being either “laminodental or apicodental”, but would rather avoid repeating “dental”. Omission of the second part of hyphenated compounds is straightforward (e.g., “user- and hardware-friendly”). But I’m not mad about the asymmetric hyphenation of:

lamino- and apicodental

nor do I want to have hyphens in both places:

lamino- and apico-dental

given that I would normally write “apicodental” without a hyphen.

My go-to style guide, the Economist’s, is silent on this point. Is anyone aware of any established practices in this regard?

Solution 1:

These are often called suspended hyphens. From Wikipedia:

A suspended hyphen ... may be used when a single base word is used with separate, consecutive, hyphenated words which are connected by "and", "or", or "to". For example, nineteenth-century and twentieth-century may be written as nineteenth- and twentieth-century. ... [P]reoperative and postoperative becomes pre- and postoperative (not pre- and post-operative) in AMA or APA style when suspended.

So it appears that two widely used style guides recommend writing lamino- and apicodental.