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DANB RHS Review Practice Questions and
Answers (100% Pass)
A step wedge can be used to demonstrate
A. penumbra
B. film contrast
C. magnification of image
D. film composition - Answer✔️✔️-B
On a radiograph, what is the dense radiopaque band that outlines the edge
of the mandible?
A. Mylohyoid ridge
B. Inferior border
C. Mental protuberance
D. Oblique ridge - Answer✔️✔️-B
Which the following quality control tests evaluates safe lighting in the
darkroom?
A. Timer test
B. Step wedge
C. Coin test
D. Normalizing device - Answer✔️✔️-C
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Which film would be exposed to see the relationship of the alveolar bone?
A. Vertical bitewing
B. Periapical
C. Horizontal bitewing
D. Occlusal - Answer✔️✔️-A
The use of a thyroid collar is recommended for all of the following
radiographic exposures EXCEPT?
A. bitewing
B. occlusal
C. periapical
D. panoramic - Answer✔️✔️-D
Which of the following results in a double image radiograph?
A. Processing two exposed films together
B. Exposing a duplicating film
C. Exposing the same film twice
D. Processing two unexposed films together - Answer✔️✔️-C
Which of the following would cause a radiopaque artifact on a radiograph?
A. Metallic partial denture
B. Provisional restoration
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C. Soft tissues of the buccal mucosa
D. Soft tissues surrounding the bone - Answer✔️✔️-A
A radiograph will automatically be retaken when there is a
A. cone cut
B. scratched film
C. double exposure
D. bent film - Answer✔️✔️-C
Which of the following condition may mimic caries on an intraoral
radiograph?
A. Root resorption
B. Residual cysts of the mandible
C. Secondary dentin formation
D. Pulp stones - Answer✔️✔️-A
Which of the following lesions appears radiopaque on a radiograph?
A. Periapical abscess
B. Sclerotic bone
C. Dentigerous cyst
D. Metastatic carcinoma - Answer✔️✔️-B
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Which of the following radiation effects increase in severity as more
radiation is absorbed by somatic cells?
A. Cumulative
B. Nonstochastic
C. Long-term
D. Stochastic - Answer✔️✔️-B
Which of the following can help to protect patients from excess radiation
damage to tissues?
A. Slow film speed
B. Short cone paralleling
C. Round collimation
D. High kVp - Answer✔️✔️-D
The most important step the dentist can take in protecting patients from x-
radiation is to
A. avoid filtration
B. property use collimation
C. property prescribe radiographs
D. avoid position devices - Answer✔️✔️-C
The positioning-indicating device (PID) shape that most effectively reduces
patient exposure to radiation is
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DANB RHS Review Practice Questions and
Answers (100% Pass)
A step wedge can be used to demonstrate
A. penumbra
B. film contrast
C. magnification of image
D. film composition - Answer✔️✔️-B
On a radiograph, what is the dense radiopaque band that outlines the edge
of the mandible?
A. Mylohyoid ridge
B. Inferior border
C. Mental protuberance
D. Oblique ridge - Answer✔️✔️-B
Which the following quality control tests evaluates safe lighting in the
darkroom?
A. Timer test
B. Step wedge
C. Coin test
D. Normalizing device - Answer✔️✔️-C
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Which film would be exposed to see the relationship of the alveolar bone?
A. Vertical bitewing
B. Periapical
C. Horizontal bitewing
D. Occlusal - Answer✔️✔️-A
The use of a thyroid collar is recommended for all of the following
radiographic exposures EXCEPT?
A. bitewing
B. occlusal
C. periapical
D. panoramic - Answer✔️✔️-D
Which of the following results in a double image radiograph?
A. Processing two exposed films together
B. Exposing a duplicating film
C. Exposing the same film twice
D. Processing two unexposed films together - Answer✔️✔️-C
Which of the following would cause a radiopaque artifact on a radiograph?
A. Metallic partial denture
B. Provisional restoration
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C. Soft tissues of the buccal mucosa
D. Soft tissues surrounding the bone - Answer✔️✔️-A
A radiograph will automatically be retaken when there is a
A. cone cut
B. scratched film
C. double exposure
D. bent film - Answer✔️✔️-C
Which of the following condition may mimic caries on an intraoral
radiograph?
A. Root resorption
B. Residual cysts of the mandible
C. Secondary dentin formation
D. Pulp stones - Answer✔️✔️-A
Which of the following lesions appears radiopaque on a radiograph?
A. Periapical abscess
B. Sclerotic bone
C. Dentigerous cyst
D. Metastatic carcinoma - Answer✔️✔️-B
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Which of the following radiation effects increase in severity as more
radiation is absorbed by somatic cells?
A. Cumulative
B. Nonstochastic
C. Long-term
D. Stochastic - Answer✔️✔️-B
Which of the following can help to protect patients from excess radiation
damage to tissues?
A. Slow film speed
B. Short cone paralleling
C. Round collimation
D. High kVp - Answer✔️✔️-D
The most important step the dentist can take in protecting patients from x-
radiation is to
A. avoid filtration
B. property use collimation
C. property prescribe radiographs
D. avoid position devices - Answer✔️✔️-C
The positioning-indicating device (PID) shape that most effectively reduces
patient exposure to radiation is
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