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| What is an example of a good insulator? |
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| What is an example of a device that uses alternating current (AC)? |
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| What is the unit that measures the amount of an electric current (the number of electrons flowing through a conductor)? |
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| How many watts are in a kilowatt? |
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| What should you do when using electrical equipment? |
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| Read all instructions carefully before attempting to use new equipment. |
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| What color is typically used to indicate that an elctrode is a cathode? |
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| What does anaphoresis do? |
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| Stimulate and irritate the nerves. |
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| What is NOT a benefit of using Tesla high frequency current? |
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| Decreases elimination and absorption |
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| WHo holds the tube electrode with the indirect method of application for high-frequency current? |
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| What is a characteristic of short wavelengths? |
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| What type of ultraviolet (UV rays are known as the burning light? |
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| What is not a benefit of LED treatments? |
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| What color LED is used to improve elastin production in the skin? |
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| What color LED is used to reduce hyperpigmentation? |
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| What can cause skin conditions? |
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| Both internal and external factors |
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| Why are the acid mantle and barrier function not as healthy in dry skin? |
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| What beverage can cause dehydrated skin? |
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| What skin type is indicated by larger, visible follicles over most of the face? |
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| What type of skin is characterized by fragile, thin skin and redness? |
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| What statement about fitzpatrick type III skin is true? |
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| The hair and eye color for this skin type vary |
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| What fitzpatrick skin type is common among people of middle eastern descent? |
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| What skin type of the glogau scale shows wrinkles at rest and is specific to people in their 40s and 50s? |
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| What Rubin clssification includes supercicial pigment and changes in the epidermis? |
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| What is not one of the most common skin conditions estheticians see today? |
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| What condition is characterized by redness and distended capillaries caused by a weakening of the capillary walls? |
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| What term refers to oiliness of the skin? |
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| What is the main external cause of aging? |
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| What term refers to the strength or intensity of sunlight exposure? |
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| What statement about UVB radiation is true? |
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| It has more energy than UVA radiation? |
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| What SPF is recommended when selecting sunscreen? |
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| What is not a recommended habit for maintaining healthy skin? |
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| eat foods containg preservatives |
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| What type of treatments are contraindicated for clients with epilepsy? |
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| Electrotherapy and phototherapy |
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| What document is a record of all of your notes from the skin analysis, what you used in the treatment, and your home-care recommendations? |
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| What is not a a focus of a skin analysis? |
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| SKin care products the client uses at home |
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| What term refers to the vaporization, cutting, or removal of a portion of the epidermis and/or dermis? |
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| Travel at the speed of light in the form of a wave? |
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| What term refers to light energy that is "in phase"? |
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| What aspect of a laser determines the type of chromophore with which the light will react? |
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| What is not one of the common chromophores in the body? |
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| What is not one of the four tissue effects of lasers? |
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| What type of surface poses the greatest potential safety hazard when using lasers? |
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| WHat is the most commonly-reported hazard for those working with laser devices? |
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| What are lasers usually named in reference to? |
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| What term refers to the energy of a pulsed laser beam? |
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| Thermal relaxation time is the abount of time necessary for a chromophore to lose ___ percent of the heat produced by the laser. |
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| What unit of measurement is used to measure energy fluence in pulsed lasers? |
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| What term refers to the rate of energy being delivered to tissue by a laser light source? |
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| What body determines who can use a specific type of radiation-emitting electronic device? |
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| What term is used to refer to the entire laser apparatus used in a health care facility? |
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| Health care laser system (HCLS) |
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| What statement about the door to the laser room is correct? |
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| It should be closed but unlocked whenever the laser is in use. |
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| What effect can the lens in the eye have on a laser's energy |
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| Magnify its intensity by as much as 100,000 times. |
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| Most laser eyewear has an optical density level of ____ for visible and infrared wavelengths of light. |
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| What statement about operating laser equipment is correct? |
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| You should document all problems with the device in you service records. |
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| What should clients do during laser treatments to help prevent a fire? |
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| refrain from placing anything between the laser device and area of trreatment |
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| What is not one of the administrative practices mandated by american national standards institite (ANSI)? |
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| conducting monthly competency skills checks of the laser-trained staff. |
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| What happens to cells when they undergo a photothermal tissue reaction? |
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| What is not one of the purposes for which CO2 and ER:YAG lasers were traditionally used? |
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| What is the average surface coverage per treatment when using a fraxel laser to treat photo-aging or acne scarring? |
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| What is one of the main factors to consider when determining whether photomechanical laser therapy is appropriate for a client? |
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| Client's tendency for wound healing |
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| What are Q-switched lasers commonly used for? |
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| treating pigmented lesions |
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| What type of light is a combination of all the visible rays of the spectrum? |
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| What is a diode laser with a wavelength of 800 NM used for? |
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| What type of laser is commonly used to treat vascular and pigmented lesions? |
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| What are alexandrite Q-switched lasers commonly used for? |
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| What is a quality of intense pulsed light (IPL)? |
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| When should double and triple pulses be used when using IPL? |
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| When treating pigmented lesions |
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| What is not a methid of skin cooling used with IPL? |
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| Submerging the treatment area in water during treatment |
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| What term refers to a current that flows on a path of least resistance between positive an negative electrodes place at opposite ends? |
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| What type of LED is used for treating hyperpigmentation? |
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| What is not a benefit of LED rejuvenation? |
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| stimulating of hair follicles |
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| What condition can be identified using a wood's lamp? |
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| What is the most important function of fitzpatrich typing? |
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| Helping you to predict the skin's responce to treatments. |
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| What fitzpatrick types are likely to be difficult to treat and have troubling complications, such as hypopigmentation? |
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| What color eyes is a person with fitzpatrick typer III skin likely to have? |
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| WHat fitzpatrick type is common in people of mediterranean heritage? |
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| What is a characteristic of fitzpatrick type VI skin? |
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| How many points should you mark down for a client with sandy red hair when identifyinh the fitzpatrick type? |
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| What answer to the question of how the client's face reacts to the sun is worth four points when determining the fitzpatrick type? |
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| What is the fitzpatrick skin of a client with a skin type score of 27? |
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| What skin classification system takes into account the client's ancestry and fitzpatrick type? |
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| What skin classification system looks at the specific issues of burning, tanning, and postinflammatory hyperpigmentation? |
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| Goldman world classification |
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| What skin claddification system looks specifically at african skin? |
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| How many skin types does the Bauman system include? |
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| What is the best question to ask in determning postinflammatory hyperpigmentation? |
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| When you get a cut, does the wound go from red to pink to brown? |
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| How many points does a person of native american heritage rate on the lancer system? |
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| What is not a cause of extrinsic aging? |
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| What is a characteristic of a person with Glougau type II skin? |
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| Early to moderate photoaging |
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| What is a characteristic of a person with Glogau type III skin? |
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| What type of treatment is recommended for a client with a level 1 rating on the Rubin's classification of photodamage scale? |
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| What is the most severe level of photodamage on the Rubin's classifications of photodamage scale? |
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| What term is used in india for the constant energy released by the multitude of chemical activities taking place within the body? |
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| What element in traditional chinese medicine (TCM) includes the energies of liver and gallbladder? |
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| What energies does the element of metal use to move vital energy throughout the body and large intestine in TCM? |
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| What skin conditions are related to the element of earth in TCM? |
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| What is not a condition related to the element of water in TCM? |
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| What term refers to a small area where the resistance of skin to electrical stimulation is less than on the rest of the skin? |
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| Where is the acupuncture point for the smal intestine? |
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| What part of the body is related to the acupuncture points located on the cheeks extended from the jawbone to the ears, on both sides? |
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| Where is the acepuncture point for the bladder? |
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| Upper part of the circle around the eyes. |
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| What three levels does an advanced face reflexology treatment involve? |
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| Matter with matter, matter with energy, and energy with energy. |
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| What are the main isotypes identified by Dr. Pugliese? |
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| Estrogen-dominant women and androgen-dominant women. |
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| What is a characteristic of a clien in the EY category? |
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| Larger or rounder/broader nose. |
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| What is a characteristic of a client in the AX category? |
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| What type of skin condition is always the highest priority? |
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| What type of skin condition is the lowest priority? |
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