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| Who is the Surgeon General |
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| The purpose of plaque index was to? |
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| evaluate the presence of plaque; evaluate home care; instuct the patient on home care |
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| What favors the amount of calculus at the specific sites of the maxillary molars? |
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| A dense non-calcified complex mass of bacterial colonies in a gel like matrix best define.... |
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| The bacteria MOST likely to be seen in a mature plaque is.. |
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The subgingival bacteria most closely associated with period destruction:
a) will be gram positive cocci
b)incorporated in the plaque's intercellular matrix
c)require high oxygen need for survival
d) may be freely close to the sulcus wall but not attached to the plague matrix |
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| d) may be moving freely close to the sulcus wall but not attached to the plaque matrix |
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| Whitlockite and brushite are connected with.... |
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| Calculus is an important topic to be discussed in patient education because why? |
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| The amount can be controlled through proper home care & calculus is a consequence of plaque formation |
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| The mineral for calcification of submarginal calculus are found in: |
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| The first crystal to precipitate out of the saliva for supragingival calculus formation is: |
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| If calculus near the junctional epithelium is not detected and removed, the periodontal process will continue because the calculus |
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| causes the formation of periodontal of periodontal pockets; harbors bacteria; invades the tissue |
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| The World Health Organization recognizes health as the ability to adapt and cope with one's environment. Health is viewed as an investment in life, being all that one is capable of being. |
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| Ability to adapt and cope with environment |
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| Enhancing people's capacity to cope with an ever-changing environment is a challenge of which healthcare movement? |
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Q. All of the following are examples of secondary prevention dental hygiene interventions except one. Which one is the exception?
A. Screening for dental caries
B. Placing sealants on insipient dental caries
C. Demonstrating sulcular toothbrushing for gingivitis
D. Providing a tray fluoride for a person with dry mouth
E. Root surface debridement on a tooth with chronic periodontitis |
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| Root surface debridement on a tooth with chronic periodontitis |
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All of the following are examples of secondary prevention dental hygiene interventions except one. Which one is the exception?
A. Screening for dental caries
B. Placing sealants on insipient dental caries
C. Demonstrating sulcular toothbrushing for gingivitis
D. Providing a tray fluoride for a person with dry mouth
E. Root surface debridement on a tooth with chronic periodontitis |
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| E. Root surface debridement on a tooth with chronic periodontitis |
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| Oral and craniofacial cancer tends to be diagnosed at a(n) _____ phase when prognosis is _____. |
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Q. In advancing periodontal disease, subgingival oral biofilm is characterized by all of the following except one. Which one is the exception?
A. A zone of gram-positive organisms attached to the tooth
B. A loosely adherent zone of gram-negative species attached to the pocket wall
C. Predominance of bacteria such as Porphyromonas gingivalis, Prevotella intermedia, Tannerella forsythensis, Treponema denticola, and others
D. Mutans streptococci |
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| Being able to realize aspiration and satisfy needs, as well as being to change and cope with the environment |
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All of the following may cause subgingival calculus to be dark in color (dark tan, brown, or black) except one. Which one is the exception?
A. Type of bacteria it is made of
B. Absorption of blood products
C. Melanin pigmentation
D. Foods and drinks that can cause extrinsic tooth stain |
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What is the term for a loosely attached collection of oral debris, desquamated epithelial cells, leukocytes, salivary proteins and lipids, and bacteria that is seen as a whitish to yellowish to grayish mass on the teeth or overlying oral biofilm?
A. Bacterial plaque
B. Food debris
C. Materia alba
D. Calculus |
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| What are the properties of a disclosing agent? |
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| contrasts with normal color of oral cavity; not rinse off readily or last too long; pleasant taste; cause no irritation to tissues; thin enough to be easily applied yet thick enough to impart color; some posses astringent/antiseptic properties. |
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| What are the minerals in calculus? |
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| brushite, whitelock (octacalcium phosphate), hydroxyapatite |
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| Three layers of subgingival biofilm |
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| Tooth surface- attached plaque (positive rods and cocci); unattached plaque-(in middle toxic) many gram - motile forms;, spirochetes and vibrios and leukocytes; Epithelium (loosley attached) plaque- gram negative motile forms predominate |
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Oral hygiene assessment conducted by a dental hygienist includes observation and measurement of hard and soft deposits on the teeth using all of the following except one. Which one is the exception?
A. Severity
B. Location
C. Degree (amount)
D. Extent |
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Q. All of the following tooth stains can be removed by scaling or selective polishing except one. Which one is the exception?
A. Chromogenic bacteria stain
B. Extrinsic tooth stain
C. Intrinsic tooth stain
D. Chlorhexidine gluconate and cetylpyridinium chloride stain
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A. Neutrophils
B. Macrophages
C. Lipopolysaccharides
D. Polymorphonuclear leukocytes |
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Plaque Index Scoring:
P0:
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P0: no plaque
P1: plaque present as discrete spots
P2: Plaque present as continuous narrow line
P3: Plaque present as broad continuous line (covering at least 1/3 of tooth surface) |
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Interpretation of Plaque Indexes:
0-0.5
0.6-1.0
1.1-3.0 |
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0-.5: Excellent
0.6-1.0: Good, but needs attention
1.1-3.0: Poor, unacceptable |
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| The host‘s normal response to injury (inflammation) and to foreign bodies (the immune response) is activated in the presence of a microbial challenge. It is the effects of proinflammatory mediators produced during chronic inflammation and inability of the immune system to reach the site of injury or infection that cause the connective tissue and bone destruction in periodontal disease. |
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| Both statements are true. |
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Because disclosants can _____ clinical signs of disease, disclosing agents should be applied after the oral and periodontal assessment and after the client sees the oral findings in his or her own mouth.
A. Aggravate
B. Camouflage
C. Allay
D. Mimic |
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Middle-aged women with good oral hygiene are the most likely population to have which of the following?
A. Chromogenic stain
B. Intrinsic stain
C. Black-line stain
D. Brown stain |
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| What is the color of a healthy gum? |
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| "coral pink" or a salmonpink |
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| What is the consistency of a healthy gum? |
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| What is the contour shape of a healthy gum? |
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