UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
What is an Endodontist? - CORRECT ANSWER Root canal specialist
What is a Periodontist? - CORRECT ANSWER A dentist that specializes in gum disease
What is a General Dentist? - CORRECT ANSWER A dentist that performs most aspects of
dentistry
What is an Oral Surgeon? - CORRECT ANSWER A dentist that specializes in oral surgery
What is a Prosthodontist? - CORRECT ANSWER A dentist that specializes in dental
prosthetics
What is an Orthodontist? - CORRECT ANSWER specializes in straightening teeth
What is a Pedodontist? - CORRECT ANSWER A dentist that specializes in childrens dentistry
What is tooth number 10? - CORRECT ANSWER Upper left lateral
What is tooth #30 - CORRECT ANSWER Lower right first molar
What is tooth #24? - CORRECT ANSWER Lower left central
What is tooth #12? - CORRECT ANSWER Upper left first bicuspid
What is tooth # 14 - CORRECT ANSWER Upper left first molar
, What is tooth # 3 - CORRECT ANSWER Upper right first molar
What is tooth #9 - CORRECT ANSWER Upper left central
What is tooth #6? - CORRECT ANSWER Upper right cuspid
What is tooth # 32? - CORRECT ANSWER Lower right third molar
What is tooth #19 ? - CORRECT ANSWER Lower left first molar
What is an abcess? - CORRECT ANSWER An infection of a tooth, soft issue or bone
What is anesthesia? - CORRECT ANSWER A type of medication that results in the elimination
of pain sensation
What is bone resorption? - CORRECT ANSWER Decrease in the amount of bone supporting
the roots of teeth
What is a canker sore? - CORRECT ANSWER Sores or small shallow ulcers that appear in the
mouth
What is dry socket? - CORRECT ANSWER A common complication that occurs when either a
blood clot has failed to form in an extracted tooth socket or else the blood clot that did form has been
dislodged
What is a composite resin filling - CORRECT ANSWER Tooth colored restorative material
made of plastic with small glass or ceramic particles
What is a fistula? - CORRECT ANSWER A channel emanating pus from an infected site
What is gum recession? - CORRECT ANSWER Exposure of dental roots due to shrinkage of
gum tissue