Definition of "endodontics" []

• The branch of dentistry that deals with diseases of the tooth root, dental pulp, and surrounding tissue. (noun)

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• "If you are really a money chaser, go for endodontics they clean up."
• "Then, you had forgotten, they only pay 50% of endodontics the pulpotomy, and they don't even cover the laughing gas at all."
• "For a long while, Gary continued writing while he went to school and started practicing, and then he got so involved in dentistry—his specialty was endodontics; root canals—that he stopped."