Possible Clues:

• Hip's pierced by stake - gets embedded
• Dentist's specialties
• Mouthpieces at dentist's up north risk getting ultimate orthodontics
• Damascenes, for example, slaying ceaselessly and indiscriminately
• Puts down, as parquetry
• Mosaic elements
• Parquetry features
• Sets in wood perhaps, popular with amateur bowlers, ultimately
• Cavity fillers
• Designs embedded in a wooden box