DHYG 2070: Chapter 2 | Questions with 100% Verified Answers | Latest Update
Question: Dr. Alfred Fones
Answer:
who initiated the dental hygiene career?
Question: History
Answer:
•Dr. Alfred Fones initiated the career
•1906 he trained the first dental hygienist ever, Irene Newman
•1913 he started the Fones School of Dental Hygiene in Bridgeport, Connecticut
•the first dental hygienists were trained to work in the community providing education
and preventative service as an advocate for dental public health
Question: Irene Newman
Answer:
who was the first hygienist Fones trained?
Question: Bridgeport, Connecticut
Answer:
where was the Fones School of Dental Hygiene start in 1913?
Question: community
Answer:
where were the first hygienists trained to work to provide education and preventative services?
Question: Professional roles
Answer:
•clinicians,
•administrators,
•entrepeneurs,
•corporate,
•researcher,
•public health
, Question: Access to Oral Health Care
Answer:
•Dental disease is a chronic problem among low-income populations
•Problems being addressed by federal agencies and state governments through
legislation and policy development
•Mid-level providers in dentistry are being discussed and models are being developed
Question: low income population
Answer:
dental disease is a chronic problem among what population?
Question: alternative practice settings
Answer:
•Public health settings are categorized as alternative practice settings (i.e., providing
oral hygiene services outside the private practice in a nontraditional setting)
•Examples:
—community-based clinic, —a mobile van, —school-based oral health program, —a hospital
or a long-term care facility, —the home of a homebound individual
Question: Levels of prevention
Answer:
•primary
•secondary
•tertiary
Question: primary prevention
Answer:
•community health focus;
•more effective, less costly, involves less technology;
•often does not require a dentist to be present; less restrictive supervision;
•RDH provide at this level to reach underdeserved populations;
Question: Primary prevention
Answer:
•employment of strategies and agents to forestall the onset of disease, reverse it's
progress or arrest it's process before treatment becomes necessary;
•Therapies and services:
—oral evaluation, —prophys, —fluoride, —sealants, —health education, —health promotion
Question: Dr. Alfred Fones
Answer:
who initiated the dental hygiene career?
Question: History
Answer:
•Dr. Alfred Fones initiated the career
•1906 he trained the first dental hygienist ever, Irene Newman
•1913 he started the Fones School of Dental Hygiene in Bridgeport, Connecticut
•the first dental hygienists were trained to work in the community providing education
and preventative service as an advocate for dental public health
Question: Irene Newman
Answer:
who was the first hygienist Fones trained?
Question: Bridgeport, Connecticut
Answer:
where was the Fones School of Dental Hygiene start in 1913?
Question: community
Answer:
where were the first hygienists trained to work to provide education and preventative services?
Question: Professional roles
Answer:
•clinicians,
•administrators,
•entrepeneurs,
•corporate,
•researcher,
•public health
, Question: Access to Oral Health Care
Answer:
•Dental disease is a chronic problem among low-income populations
•Problems being addressed by federal agencies and state governments through
legislation and policy development
•Mid-level providers in dentistry are being discussed and models are being developed
Question: low income population
Answer:
dental disease is a chronic problem among what population?
Question: alternative practice settings
Answer:
•Public health settings are categorized as alternative practice settings (i.e., providing
oral hygiene services outside the private practice in a nontraditional setting)
•Examples:
—community-based clinic, —a mobile van, —school-based oral health program, —a hospital
or a long-term care facility, —the home of a homebound individual
Question: Levels of prevention
Answer:
•primary
•secondary
•tertiary
Question: primary prevention
Answer:
•community health focus;
•more effective, less costly, involves less technology;
•often does not require a dentist to be present; less restrictive supervision;
•RDH provide at this level to reach underdeserved populations;
Question: Primary prevention
Answer:
•employment of strategies and agents to forestall the onset of disease, reverse it's
progress or arrest it's process before treatment becomes necessary;
•Therapies and services:
—oral evaluation, —prophys, —fluoride, —sealants, —health education, —health promotion
