1. Most dentists are .......... practitioners, which means they own their own business and work alone or with a small staff.

2. Dentists sometimes perform corrective .......... on gums and supporting bones to treat gum diseases.

3. Dentists wear masks, gloves, and safety glasses to protect themselves and their patients from .......... .

4. Orthodontists use braces or retainers to apply pressure to teeth in order .......... them.

5. After finishing dental school, some people work together with established dentists as .......... for a couple of years to build up experience and save money to equip an office of their own.

6. As dental technology improves, dentists will be able to offer more .......... treatment to their patients.

7. When dentists extract all of your teeth, they replace the missing teeth with .......... .

8. Dentists use an assortment of .......... like mouth mirrors, probes, forceps, brushes, and scalpels in their work.

9. When decay or injuries .......... the blood or nerve supply of your tooth, you need a Root Canal.

10. Wisdom teeth are always the last to .......... They commonly appear around the ages 17 to 25.