Monday's Assignment
What feelings do you have when you hear the word dentist? Share this with a partner.
Share an interesting dental experience with your partner. What do you think is the most important factor in dental hygiene?
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| What new words did you read? |
Watch this video, looking out for two surprising facts--then watch again with CC (closed captions) on:
Welcome to a week on healthcare practitioners! Here are your tasks:
| practitioners | a person engaged in the practice of a profession, occupation. a person who practices something specified. |
| inconvenient | not easily accessible or at hand; inopportune; ntimely; not suiting one's needs or purposes. |
| polishing | to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction. |
| refit | to fit, prepare, or equip again. |
| cavity | a hollow space or a pit in a tooth, most commonly produced by caries. |
| probe | to search into or examine thoroughly. |
| profusely | abundantly, aplenty, bounteously, copiously, galore. |
| dental floss | a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth |
| root canal | the passage in the root of a tooth through which its nerve and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity |
| sensitivity | the ability of an organism or part of an organism to react to stimuli; irritability. |
| denture | an artificial replacement of one or several of the teeth. |
| plaque and tartar | |
| receded | to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw. |
| molar | a kind of teeth. |
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