Deck 2: Provision of Clinical Dental Hygiene Services

Question 1

What condition results in excessive production of thyroid hormones?

A)Leprosy
B)Town's syndrome
C)Graves' disease
D)Chondroma

Answer 1

Graves' disease

Question 2

What do individuals with single-gene disorders usually have?

A)Affected parent
B)Affected parents
C)They are carriers
D)Share trait with sibling

Answer 2

Affected parent

Question 3

What do immune system diseases and blood disorder questions help assess a client's potential risk for?

A)Nose bleeds after dental hygiene care
B)Rashes after dental hygiene care
C)Infection after dental hygiene care
D)Knee pain after dental hygiene care

Answer 3

Infection after dental hygiene care

Question 4

Who is usually affected by X-linked recessive inheritance?

A)Males
B)Females
C)Uncles
D)Aunts

Question 5

What condition does not influence the thickness of the periodontal ligament?

A)Age
B)Eruption stage
C)Function of tooth
D)Gender

Question 6

Hyperdontia is also known as:

A)Hyperplasia
B)Congenital cysts
C)Walton's syndrome
D)Supernumerary teeth

Question 7

What skills are used in performing extraoral and intraoral examinations?

A)Direct observation
B)Direct observation and palpation
C)Direct observation, palpation, and auscultation
D)Direct observation, palpation, auscultation, and olfaction

Question 8

When performing extraoral and intraoral examinations, direct observations are a technique used for visual inspections. What item below is visually inspected?

A)Ethnicity
B)Age
C)Hair color
D)Body symmetry

Question 9

When performing extraoral and intraoral examinations, palpations are used in what region of the body?

A)Arms and legs
B)Neck and shoulders
C)Head and neck

Question 10

What are submental and submandibular glands examined for?

A)Asymmetry
B)Color
C)Texture
D)Shading

Question 11

What gland is assessed by a combination of bidigital palpation and circular compression?

A)Pituitary gland
B)Hormone gland
C)Thyroid gland
D)Parotid gland

Question 12

Dental plaque biofilm is relatively invisible. What can be used to help detect dental plaque biofilm?

A)Education
B)Cleaning agents
C)Disclosing agents
D)Acid agents

Question 13

What is the term malodor better known as?

A)Halitosis
B)Irrigation
C)Dentifrices
D)Caries

Question 14

What should a tooth suspected of being nonvital be tested for?

A)Gingiva reaction
B)Pulp vitality
C)Gingiva vitality
D)Pulp reaction

Question 15

What is a nonsurgical technique for collecting surface cells for microscopic evaluation?

A)Exfoliative cytology
B)Pinching cytology
C)Scrubbing cytology
D)Scratching cytology

Question 16

What stage of tooth development is termed the "ugly duckling" stage?

A)Primary
B)Permanent
C)Mixed
D)No such stage

Question 17

What is the term used when the marginal alveolar bone is denuded?

A)Etching
B)Col
C)Fenestration
D)Dehiscence

Question 18

Impacted teeth are normally located where?

A)Mandible canine
B)Maxillary canine
C)Mandible molar
D)Maxillary molar

Question 19

When the alveolar bone is sufficient and deeply embedded to support normal usage of the crown, the tooth has proper:

A)Crown-to-gum ratio
B)Gum-to-bone ratio
C)Crown-to-root ratio
D)Crown-to-gingiva ratio

Question 20

Toothbrush abrasions present as:

A)Vertical lines
B)Horizontal notches
C)Rough smears
D)Striated horizontal notches

Question 21

When tooth loss does not correlate with functional patterns, the damage is due to:

A)Abrasion
B)Erosion
C)Attrition
D)Abrasion level 2

Question 22

Occlusion is the relationship between what two facial bones?

A)Zigomatic and mandible
B)Maxilla and mandible
C)Temporal and zigomatic
D)Vomer and palatine

Question 23

Attrition is due to:

A)Tooth-to-gingiva contact
B)Tooth-to-tooth contact
C)Tooth-to-alveolar contact
D)Attrition is a false term

Question 24

Apertognathia is often called:

A)"Deep bite"
B)"Open bite"
C)"Cross bite"
D)"Closed bite"

Question 25

The misalignment of teeth and jaws is having a "bad bite." What is the proper name for misaligned teeth and jaws?

A)Occlusion
B)Centric occlusion
C)Malocclusion
D)Static occlusion

Question 26

What are the four types of tooth wear?

A)Attrition, abrasion, crowning, and ridging
B)Attrition, abrasion, erosion, and abfraction
C)Attribution, erosion, crowning, and abfraction
D)Erosion, abrasion, abfraction, and protrusion

Question 27

What condition has prevalent communicative and social interaction difficulties?

A)Fetal alcohol syndrome
B)Down syndrome
C)Autism
D)Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Question 28

What condition has displays the eating of 300 to 600 calories per day?

A)Psychoneuroses
B)Anorexia nervosa
C)Psychoses
D)Bulimia

Question 29

What syndrome involves episodic binge eating and purging?

A)Psychoneuroses
B)Anorexia nervosa
C)Psychoses
D)Bulimia

Question 30

What is the term for the alveolar bone proper radiographically?

A)Lamina dura
B)Lamina proper
C)Lamina alveolar
D)Lamina proper alveolar

Question 31

What type of radiation has both mass and energy?

A)Particulate
B)Electromagnetic
C)Frequency
D)Energy

Question 32

What can cause the ionization of atoms?

A)Natural radionuclides
B)High-voltage
C)Ionization
D)Ionizing radiation

Question 33

What type of radiation constitutes the largest source of radiation exposure?

A)Naturally occurring
B)Medical applications
C)Nuclear energy
D)Research facilities

Question 34

What is a radionuclide?

A)Unstable atom
B)Stable atom
C)Deposited atom
D)Biological atom

Question 35

What is the flow of electrons through a wire or other electrical conductor?

A)Wattage
B)Ampere
C)Electricity
D)Volt

Question 36

How many units of measurement are defined in electricity?

A)1
B)3
C)2
D)0

Question 37

What happens with photons interact with matter?

A)Become scattered
B)Become absorbed
C)Both A and B
D)Neither A nor B

Question 38

What can Compton scatter do to X-ray film?

A)Film fog
B)Film scatter
C)Film circles
D)Film ghosts

Question 39

What entity is most sensitive to radiation?

A)Bone
B)Tissue
C)Cells
D)Epithelium

Question 40

How many laws of radio-sensitivity are there?

A)4
B)2
C)7
D)5

Question 41

What can affect the repair mechanism of the body?

A)High levels of radiation
B)Continued low-dose exposure
C)Rotation between low and high exposure rate
D)Rotation between low and higher exposure length

Question 42

In electromagnetic radiation, the shorter the wavelength the greater the ______?

A)Energy
B)Wattage
C)Frequency
D)Radio waves

Question 43

What lesion type presents erosion of bone radiographically?

A)Peripheral giant cell granuloma
B)Hemangioma
C)Papillary hyperplasia
D)Granuloma

Question 44

What is the simplest but most effective disease prevention method?

A)Gloves
B)Face mask
C)Eye protection
D)Handwashing

Question 45

What must an employer provide to employees that may be exposed to blood-borne pathogens?

A)Medical benefits
B)Heath insurance
C)Hepatitis B vaccine
D)Hepatitis C vaccine

Question 46

Agent-host-environment theory states that disease is a result of an imbalance in one or all three factors, i.e., agent, host, and/or environment. However, there are three parts to these factors. What are they?

A)Primary, secondary, and tertiary
B)First, second, and third
C)Primary, tertiary, and final
D)Primary, secondary, and final

Question 47

How do aerosols enter the body?

A)Broken skin
B)Tears
C)Inhalation
D)Hand-to-mouth

Question 48

What chemical level type destroys all microorganisms?

A)Sterilant
B)High-level
C)Intermediate-level
D)Low-level

Question 49

What does not reduce airborne microbes?

A)Filters
B)Ventilation
C)Hand warmers
D)Circulation

Question 50

What does stimulation to the central nervous system do?

A)Induces alertness
B)Decreases alertness
C)Increase receptor sites
D)Decreases receptor sites

Question 51

What condition is described as a diminished or interrupted supply of oxygenated blood to the heart that causes necrosis of part of the heart muscle?

A)Syncope
B)Hyperventilation
C)Angina pectoris
D)Myocardial infarction

Question 52

What condition is defined as a tooth being forcibly removed from the mouth by trauma?

A)Malocclusion
B)Avulsed tooth
C)Broken tooth
D)Aspirated tooth

Question 53

What is the primary theory of motivation called?

A)Locus of focus
B)Locus of motivation
C)Locus of attention
D)Locus of control

Question 54

There are several behavioral management techniques. Which one requires consent?

A)Voice control
B)Brief appointment time
C)Hand-over-mouth
D)Distraction

Question 55

What concept model states that one's beliefs direct behavior and is used to explain and predict health behaviors?

A)Instruction model
B)Motivation model
C)Values model
D)Health model

Question 56

What term is defined as a desire to fulfill an unmet human need?

A)Instruction
B)Motivation
C)Values
D)Attribution

Question 57

What is a method for caries prevention?

A)Exercise
B)Caffeine
C)Xerostomia
D)Fluoridation of water

Question 58

The classification of carious lesions includes rate, direction, and type of disease progression to determine level of priority for restorative therapy. How many classifications are there?

A)1
B)3
C)5
D)7

Question 59

When dental plaque sticks firmly to the tooth's surface, what occurs?

A)Carious lesions
B)Cavities
C)Saliva increases
D)Fluoridation

Question 60

Caries detection is:

A)Visual and tactical
B)Visual only
C)Tactical only
D)Visual and tactical if aided by X-ray

Question 61

Fluoridation can assist in decreasing the amount of caries. This is especially true for what age group?

A)The elderly
B)Infants
C)Children
D)Middle-aged adults

Question 62

What caries gains entry into the dentinoenamel junction?

A)Enamel caries
B)Fissure caries
C)Frank caries
D)Pit caries

Question 63

What three zones of carious dentin are capable of remineralization?

A)Normal dentin, transparent dentin, and infected dentin
B)Turbid dentin, infected dentin, and sub-transparent dentin
C)Normal dentin, sub-transparent dentin, and transparent dentin
D)Transparent dentin, turbid dentin, and infected dentin

Question 64

What caries has acute onset and severe deterioration throughout the mouth?

A)Arrested caries
B)Rampant caries
C)Tubular caries
D)Carious lesion

Question 65

Hard, discolored, asymptomatic, and remineralization describes:

A)Rampant caries
B)Arrested caries
C)Acute caries
D)Frank Caries

Question 66

What medical condition exacerbates malodor?

A)Avoidance of toothbrush
B)Xerostomia
C)ADA
D)Microbial agents

Question 67

Attached plaque cells divide to proliferate and create:

A)Bio sheets
B)Vertical stratifications
C)Horizontal stratifications
D)Biofilm

Question 68

Erythroplakia is:

A)Greenish plaque
B)Brown plaque
C)Red plaque
D)Yellowish plaque

Question 69

Leukoplakia is:

A)White plaque
B)Brown plaque
C)Red plaque
D)Yellowish plaque

Question 70

What abnormal condition occurs when vital dentin is exposed to the oral cavity environment?

A)Thermal hypersensitivity
B)Rapid hypersensitivity
C)Dentinal hypersensitivity
D)Gingival hypersensitivity

Question 71

The restorative alloy and mercury compound that has proven durability and longevity is:

A)Gold
B)Silver
C)Enamel
D)Amalgam

Question 72

Where is internal resorption usually found?

A)Permanent dentition
B)Primary dentition
C)Gingiva
D)Granulation tissue

Question 73

Increased fluid in tooth tubules that deform pulp nerve endings and lead to pain response, is a component of what theory?

A)Ad-hoc Theory
B)Cold Tooth Theory
C)Hydrodynamic Theory
D)Dental Plaque Organism Theory

Question 74

What specialized nerve endings create pain?

A)Multipolar
B)Restrictor
C)Unipolar
D)Nociceptors

Question 75

What determines the speed of impulse conduction and type of pain perceived?

A)Nerve trunk
B)Restrictor
C)Fiber diameter
D)Nociceptors

Question 76

What term is used for the magnitude of the stimulus required to initiate a nerve impulse?

A)Minimal stimulus
B)Maximum stimulus
C)Minimal threshold stimulus
D)Maximum threshold stimulus

Question 77

What factor does not determine a person's pain threshold?

A)Age
B)Gender
C)Fatigue
D)Emotional state

Question 78

What ingredient is not in anesthetic solution?

A)Anesthetic drug
B)Vasoconstrictor
C)Sodium chloride
D)Potassium

Question 79

What nerve fiber is first affected by anesthetics?

A)Bundled nerve
B)C-fibers
C)A-fibers
D)F-fibers

Question 80

What nerve fiber is the last affected by anesthetics?

A)Bundled nerve
B)C-fibers
C)A-fibers
D)F-fibers