Dental Specialties Final 2019

Which can occur is patient has poor hygiene during ortho tx?

Vitalometer is battery operated, can weaken and give false reading.

Which condition woukd a post and core be recommended before placing crown?

Which services would not be routinely provided in a peds office?

Most effective antimicrobial therapy available to reduce plaque and gingivitis

Procedure indicated to promote healing of newly erupted perm tooths exposed pulp?

Forceps extraction is preformed on a tooth with a solid intact crown .

Instrument calibrated in mm that is used to locate and measure perio pockets.

Instrument designed to clean sub gingival calculus from specific tooth surface

Procedure takes place during 2nd appt. for placement of a cast restoration.

Which teeth are most frequently injured in a childs mouth?

Which causes pulpal nerve damage?

A hospital can grant oral surgeon privileges to operate in a hospital based on which situation

Which is used to place elastic separators?

Prefabricated crowns can be used post. but not ant.

Which is most commonly used for custom provisional coverage?

The fixed bridge is described by number of units involved.

Purpose of irrigation solutions in root canal therapy?

Mouth prop prevents patient from closing the mouth.

Radiographs excellent for determining bone loss

Once root canal therapy is complete what is used to fill canal?

Retention pins can be used only if tooth has been treated endodontically.

Ehat foods should be avoided by patients with fixed appliances?

Procedure involving reshaping and contouring gingival tissue

Cast restoration fits within tooth prep like class II and covers a portion of occ. and prox.

Ortho tooth positioner is not used for what?

Women on birth control are more suceptible to dry sockets.

Last instrument used in endodontics

When is lab fabricated coverage used?

Pulp is irritated and theres pain to thermal stimulus diagnosis of ____ can be made.

Instrument used to loosen tooth from socket.

Prosthodontist is dedicated to restoring and replacing teeth.

Set time for mixed acrylic before placing it in mouth

Procedure used to contour and smooth margins of the socket after extraction?

Sticky candy and gum weakens cement beneath bands cand cause it to loosen.

Oral surgery instruments are classified as

In pulp capping some carious dentin is left in self healing to avoid pulp exposure.

Core build up provides a larger area of surface retention for cementation.

Forceps extraction is not considered a surgical procedure.

How is a Maryland bridge held on place?

DA is to motivate and reinforce oral home care.

What preventative measure is often preformed during a recall appt. and is tx for gingivitis?

Instrument used to cut into soft tissue.

Occurs when injured tooth has been forced inward.

Device used to determine tooth color for ceramic corowns and bridges.

Material used for a core buildup

Appliances recommended for contact sports

Instrument used to remove coronal pulp tissue and decay

Purpose of provisional coverage

Prefabricated crowns are available in PFM.

Dry sockets do not hurt and occur immediately after removal.

Most common type of provisional coverage for crown and bridge preps?

What holds dental arch wires in place?

To dislocate a tooth from its socket

Natural rubber material used to obturate pulpal canl after tx is complete.

Lasers can be used to remove excess tissues such as in gingivoplasty.

What is overjet?

If tooth has necrotic pulp it will not respond to

Designed to hold open space when a primary has been lost prematurely

Purpose of provisional coverage

Instrument used to remove a tooth in one piece with crown and root intact.

Once acrylic impression is on prep it should remain on tooth for..

How is area under the pontic of a bridge maintained?

Localized area of pus?

If margins of provisional are not adequate?

Least useful vitality test

Primary advatage of noneugenol dressing over perio dressing with eugenol?

Removes and examines tissue to distinguish malignant from non malignant lesions.

Which set of pts does a peds dr. focus on providing oral heathcare?

When is a thermoplastic tray used to fabricate a custom provisional made?

Core build up allows crown to be less bulky.

Tapered finish line of margin at cervical area of tooth prep

During an objective exam dentist will not take into consideration...

Healing process of a dry socket may take up to 2weeks.

In ortho which radio graph is taken to study and measure skull and growth patterns?

Crown that is covered in a thin layer of porcelain

Operator removes cord while assistant preps impression materials

Which component of a fixed bridge replaces a missing tooth?

Used to absorb solutions and dry the canal.

Which info for diagnosis and treatment for a peds patient is not necessary?

What could occur if undercuts are present with provisional?

How many mins is a surgical scrub?

Type of extraction requiring addition skill and instrumentation.

What is the opening into which a post is cemented?

Most peds offices have an open bay concept.

Cold packs should be placed __mins on and ___mins off.

A fixed bridge consists of atleast one abutment and one pontic.

When is stainless steel used for provisional?

Speparators may be needed before...

Stainless steel crowns are esthetically acceptable.

Parents should be encouraged to put their kids to bed with milk formula or juice.

Which items should be included on the lab prescription?

What is the purpose of luxating a tooth prior to extraction?

Mesiobuccal cusp of max 1st molar occludes between mand 2nd pre molar and mand 1st molar?

Procedure most commonly used for vital primary teeth.

Instrument designed to remove supragingival calculus from posterior teeth

Mental age is determined by?

Crowns made of polycarbonate are used where appearance is important.

Final step after cementing the provisional crown

Bleeding after 4-5 hours post perio surgery. What should pt do ?

Child is 10yrs old but acts 8yrs old you are decribing his ___age.

What gloves are worn when assisting in oral surgery?

Government agency that needs contacted for suspected chikd abuse?

Location of the pulp determines exact location of placement of pins.

Home care instructions for someone with provisional coverage

Type of restraint that should be avoided for children with behavior problems

First instrument used for endodontics

During cementation of bands cement is placed?

Advantage of using preformed crowns for provisional

Not a reason to suspect child abuse

General dentist is qualified to preform endodontic treatment.

Treatment used to save pulp and encourage formation of dentin at site of injury.

Which level of mental retardation describes IQs ranging from 35-55?

Which biopsy involves removal of adjacent tissue and entire lesion?

Sticky candy and gum lodges between bands and causes irritation to gum tissue

What should a perio exam include?

Why is it necessary to keep prelim impression moist?

Indirect restoration, minimally invasive used as a replacement for cogenitally missing lateral?

Which procedure requires pt. to wear a provisional for a longer period of time?

Localized area of pus that originates from infection.

Place retraction cord into sulcus without damaging surrounding tissue.

Cast post is made from acrylic pattern by lab tech.

How many drops of liquid is used for liquid or powder acrylic is used?

What age is it easier to have a parent be with the child for exam?

Why is glass ionomer most commonly used in ortho for banding?

Photographs in full direct view include

Instrument used to disengage wire ties when removing arch wires.

Color of a finished veneer can be affected by shade of underlying structure and luting agent

What occurs at the final appointment in crown and bridge process?

What class occlusion is distoclusion?

After extraction 2x2 gauze is folded and placed to control bleeding, how long is it held there?

Provisional is trimmed to within __mm of gingival shoulder

Indirect restorations

Each component of a fixed bridge is

Gathering of info such as perio pocket readings, furactions, mobility, pus and recession

Dislodgement of clot from socket or infection facilitates what condition?

If a bottle is required at bedtime it should be filled with water.

Cast post is used to add height to core build up.

Gingival retraction cord is placed ___the crown prep is done and removed ___ final impression.

AAPD recommends checkups atleast __ for most children

Ultrasonic scaler is used to remove only supragingival calculus and stain.

Patient will need to return daily for a dressing change until socket heals.

Style of hand file w spiral edges, cutting only occurs on pulling, making dentin walls smooth.

The __depth of perio pocket the __the loss of bone therefore the __ severe the perio disease.

Instrument used after extraction to scrape socket of diseased tissues and abscesses?

Mouth prop is placed close to area being treated.

Ligature pigtails are tucked toward the occlusal.

Children are separated in individual ops in peds office.

How far below the margin of prep should provisional sit?

Polycarbonate crowns are stock crowns and come in limited selection.

Indications for prescribing fixed prosthodontics

Type of retraction cord is contraindicated for patients with history of cardiovas. disease.

Ligatures should be twisted and cut leaving ___mm pigtail?

Tissues that surround the root of the tooth.

Peds dentist recommend the 1st appt should take place by

Type of matrix used to restore primary teeth where proximal surfaces are missing?

Smooths root surface by removing abnormal tissue contaminated with calculus

Instrument used to measure horizontal and vertical depth of multirooted teeth

Prefabricated crowns are available in gold.

During crown prep when are provisional crowns tried in for size and shape?

Oral surgeons recieve how many extra years training in hospital based residency?

Sticky gum and candy increase chance of carious lesion with ortho treatment

One disadvantage of custom provisional coverage

ADA recognized endodontic as a specialty in 1953

Ortho fixed appliances aka

Why blow light body material before seating with heavy body material?

Preformed polycarbonate crowns can be used as a mold to fabricate a custom

Post surgical instructions include

Vitalometer is the most reliable pulp test

Cast post is cemented into pulp canal.

Type of crown does not cover the entire anatomic portion of the tooth

Core build up replaces large areas of missing tooth.

Elastic separators are left in for _ days and steel for _days.

Stainless steel crowns are used to restore a fractured tooth.

How does a surgeon determine level of anesthesia before preforming procedure?

Tests that determine whether the inflammatory process has gone tto periapical tissues are

Surgical procedure involving removal of bone

Example of a fixed prosthesis

Core build up opaques out discolored tooth structure.

How to clean under arch wire?

Soft material forms on teeth causing gingival inflammation and peri disease?

DA makes a diagnosis.

Ortho problems of most people result from

Ligature pigtails are tucked towad the gingival.

Success rate for replantation of perm teeth is hight when tooth is replanted within

Role of radiographs in endodontics

Most common method to obtain gingival retraction

Material placed under a porcelain restoration to mask tooth discoloration

Stainless steel crowns are indicated when caries are rampant.

During eval of facial esthetics why is the face examined?

How does a dentist restore decayed and endodontically treated primary teeth?

Material of choice for an inlay or onlay

Generally if a scalpel is used, sutures are indicated.

Item not used in pulpotomy

By keeping instruments, units, and gloves sterile, team has which type of field?

One or more missing teeth from same arch, which perm. restoration is recommended?

Removing dental pulp and filling canal with material.

Normal mobility is recorded at __. Extreme mobility is recorded at __.

Instruments used primarily in perio procedures

A mouth prop allows patient to relax and rest jaw muscles.

Crowns are available for bridges and single units.

With direct pulp capping tooth is nonvital and material is placed to protect pulp.

Which is an absorbable suture material?

Endodontic treatment is often referred to as root canal therapy.

Where is a stainless steel crown contoured?

Incisional biopsy is indicated when lesion is what size?

Radiograph most commonly exposed in ortho?

Absorbable sutures should be removed 5-7 days after procedure.

What would not cause endodontic failure?

Patient has lesion 2.5 cm on lateral border of tongue. What biopsy is most likely?

What location will the surgical team preform oral surgery procedures?

What is an advantage of using a patients model to select bands?

Instrument used to used surface of bone after undesirable bone has been removed?

Setting time for resin placed in preformed crown

Stainless steel crowns are durable enough to last until perm teth erupt.

Which step in root canal therapy takes place first?

Buccal arch wire tubes are located on which bands?

New method of delivering antibiotics for perio treatment

Why is the provisional placed in mouth for the final curing stage?

Purpose of an ortho positioner?

Forceps extraction is preformed on teeth that are affected.

What guideline should not be used routinely when treating children?

Example of pharmcologic restraint

Electric pulp tester is not affected by size of restorations on a tooth

Laser incisions heal faster than those made with a scalpel.

Home care instructions for patients with provisional coverage?

Instrument used to remove dentin, smooth, and increase size of canal.

Which radiograph image helps the dentist determine the length of canal?

Hand operated files are used for cleaning and shaping pulpal canals.

Prefabricated crowns can be used for post. and ant. preps

Instrument used to sever perio ligaments for tooth extraction when implants are indicated.

Pulp displays lingering pain and is incapable of heal what tx is warranted?

Each file is color coded according to flexibility’.

Dentist who specializes in prevention, diagnosis, and tx of pulp and periradicular tissue

How often does ADA recommend that peds radiographs be preformed for kids with high risk decay?

Most common sympton of pulpal damage.

Primary purpose of pit and fissure sealants?

Scraping or cleaning of gingival lining to remove necrotic tissue from pocket wall

Malocclusion and deformities causing social stigma and self esteem issues affect

Type of response to palpation or percussion that indicates inflammation in perio ligament?

Term describing root canal therapy.

Occlusal surface of provisional should sit ___the occlusal plane.

Veneers are reccomended to improve chewing on posterior teeth.

Placement and removal of gingival retraction cord may be done by EFDA.

Thermal sensitivity tests

Which symptoms do not identify early perio disease?

Which perio surgery does not remove tissue but pushes tissue away from underlying roots?

Instrument designed to split teeth.

Which component of a fixed bridge anchors to existing teeth?

1st step in prepping for bonding the brackets to teeth

Which instrument removes elastomeric ligature ties?

Preformed polycarbonate crowns are thin and not esthetically pleasing.

Contraindication for provisional

Type of abscess present with pain, tenderness to pressure, pus and swelling?

Which is used to close space between teeth?

What does an ortho hook do?

Statement best represents an important step in veneer placement

Surgical setup cannot be more than ___ before it is no longer sterile.

Process to remove bacteria, necrotic tissue and organic debris from root canal.

There are at least 2 abutment teeth in a fixed bridge.

Surgical assistant must have knowledge of

Which provisional preformed crowns are used on ant. teeth when appearance is important?

When preforming a pulpotomy of a primary tooth what instrument is used to remove pulp tissue?

Type of restoration would be used for full coverage of a primary tooth?

What parameters must be met when sizing a stainless steel crown?

Cement most commonly used with provisional

Oral surgeons must pass a national standard exam given by the American...

Attached to hooks or buttons that are secured on band or backets.

Which symptom is uncommon for pulpitis?

Crowns are supplied in many types of materials depending on location.

Prosthodontist has additional 3years of training.

Procedure that contours and shapes bone

Class of symptoms described by the patient

Core build up supports cast crown.

Spray of water at tip of ultrasonic scaler prevent tip from getting hot and flushes debris.

Cervical margins of provisional should have no more than __mm between crown and finishline

Retention pins may be necessary to add strength to core build up.

Which condition occurs when mandible is located ahead of maxilla?

Term for a tooth that has been completely knocked out of mouth?

Post op instructions for periodontal surgery

Guidelines for establishing trust between dr. and children

Describes purpose of dr. marking pockets of gingival before surgery.

Which teeth are brackets most commonly bonded?

What is class II occlusion?

Which instrument is used to place elastomeric ligature ties?

Anterior open bite is what condition?