General Dental Practice

General dental ______________ includes mouth examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of ____________. The ______________ frequently uses X-rays and other ______________ to ensure correct diagnosis and ____________.

Treatment may include filling _____________, removing the _____________ of teeth, treating diseases of the ___________, removing _____________, and replacing ______________ teeth with bridges and ______________. Anaesthesia is often used in any treatment that might cause __________. Teeth may be ______________ with amalgam, or _____________.

Perhaps one of the most important parts of a dentist's work is ______________ dentistry. If a dentist _____________ a patient's teeth at regular __________________, he may find and _______________ a disease before it becomes serious.

Exercise 20. Drugs. In most cases drugs are:

a) taken by mouth;

b) injected into the body;

c) applied to the body surface.

Divide the following forms of drugs into the three groups:

Capsules, cream, gargle, jelly, lotion, lozenge, ointment, pill, powder, serum, tablet, vaccines.

Exercise 21. Choose the right word.

1) The nurse put a ____________ on the wound.

bandage cloth towel

2) Take two of these _____________ three times a day after meals.

capsules drugs placebos

3) Illness can be stopped before it happens by means of ____________.

after-care therapy vaccines

4) If you've got a headache, why don't you take a _____________ of aspirin?

couple couplet pair

5) The ____________is a teaspoonful, to be taken three times a day.

dose measure quantity

6) Barbiturates are drugs which are often used in the ___________ of emotional disorders.

cure healing treatment

7) The doctor prescribed tablets to help ______________ the pain.

calm relieve rid

8) He threatened to drink the _________________ chemical.

deadly deathly mortal

9) The doctor gave me some _________________ for my rheumatism.

gargle lozenges pastilles

10) As the drug took _______________ the patient became quieter.

action effect influence

11) The effects of anaesthetic used for this operation take quite a time to _____________ off.

move turn wear

12) One way to get rid of hiccups is to ______________ your breath for as long as possible.

catch hold take

13) She's suffering from a ________________ of iron and needs to take a course of tablets.

defect deficiency deficit

14) After his illness, the doctor gave him medicine to ______________ another attack.

deny prevent recover

15) You'll feel better after you've taken a _______________ of cough medicine.

dose helping portion

16) Take the tablets twice a day ________________ in the tablespoon of water.

dissolved melted resolved

17) The medicine he takes can only _______________ the pain. It cannot help to get rid of it completely.

heal remedy relieve

Exercise 22. Fill the blanks with the right word from the list below. You may use each word once only.

antiseptic cleanse disease fester ointment

plaster skin wound