11.   Technology companies and small banks dominated the list, which also included a home electronics retailer, a brokerage, consultants and a dental practice management company.

12.   The balance of proceeds will be used for future acquisitions of dental practices, capital improvements, working capital and general corporate purposes.

13.   The company warned that spending to beef up its dental practice management and health benefits businesses will cause a shortfall in fourth-quarter earnings.

14.   The filing is the latest in a series of IPO filings from dental practice management companies.

15.   The office was a former dental practice in the strip-mall sprawl of suburban San Diego.

16.   The report contended that there was as much statistical likelihood for transmission within the community as in the dental practice.

17.   Waiting in the wings to go public within the next two years is another group of dental practices, now in later stages of venture financing.

18.   While David Prensky set up a dental practice, Bryna Prensky took painting classes at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City.

19.   Zucht, who sold his dental practice five years ago, said he has conquered innkeeper burnout by surrounding himself with people who could run the business for him.

20.   During a combat tour in Vietnam, he participated in experimental military dental practices that are now common place in the armed forces.