Dental Assisting Board Exam
|Complete Q’s and A’s
dental assistant - -assists a dentist with dental procedures
- dentistry - -Branch of healthcare involved with the prevention, diagnosis,
and treatment of conditions involving the teeth, jaw, and mouth. Practitioner
is a dentist.
- What is inserted into the canal to absorb irrigating solution?
Cotton rolls
paper points
endodontic explorer wrapped with guaze
floss - -paper points
- the process of introducing certain metals such as titanium into living bone
and forming a biocompatible bond with living tissue
osteoplasty
osteoporosis
osseointegration
osteogenesis - -osseointegration
- what type of cells form enamel?
what type of cells form dentin?
ameloblasts
enamel organ
odontoblasts
cementoblasts - -ameloblasts, odontoblasts
- this type of dentin also known as reparative dentin, is formed in response
to irritation and appears as a localized deposit wall on the pulp chamber. this
may occur in reponse to attrition, erosion, dental caries, dental treatment or
other irritants
primary dentin
tertiary dentin
secondary dentin - -tertiary dentin
- what results when the maxillary and medial nasal process fails to fuse?
ankyloglossia
cleft palate
cleft lip
class III occlusion - -cleft lip
, - A soft mixture of bacteria and salivary proteins, also known as ''white
material''. Is visible without the use of a disclosing agent and is common in
individuals with poor oral hygiene
biofilm
acquired pellicle
food debris
material alba - -material alba
- A dental assistant measures a patients blood pressure. It reads 135/82,
what category is the patient?
hypertensive crisis
high blood pressure stage 2
elevated
high blood pressure stage 1 - -high blood pressure stage 1 (130-139/80-89)
- A patient has a bronchospasm/asthma attack during treatment, what do
you grab from the emergency kit?
Chlorohexidine
Albuterol
Aspirin
Nitroglycerin - -Albuterol/ventolin
- A pregnant patient comes in for 12, 13, and 45 fillings. Local anesthetic is
given and Isolite is used for isolation. She is put in supine position, she feels
dizzy and light headed when put up right due to the pressure of her enlarged
uterus on her abdominal veins. What should you do?
Sit her up right
turn her to her left side
give her a glass of water
put her in subsupine position - -A and B
- A patient is scheduled for an extraction of all her 8's. As you seat the
patient and explain the procedure, she begins to breath heavily and
hyperventilate. What you do to help her?
Quickly give her nitrous oxide to calm down
tell her to breathe into her hands cupped
put her in supine position and take her blood pressure
inform the doctor and grab an AED - -B
- what hand cutting instrument is used to prepare the tooth and plane the
walls and floors of the tooth preparation with a push-pull action
Hoe
Chisel
Hatchet
Excavator - -Hoe
|Complete Q’s and A’s
dental assistant - -assists a dentist with dental procedures
- dentistry - -Branch of healthcare involved with the prevention, diagnosis,
and treatment of conditions involving the teeth, jaw, and mouth. Practitioner
is a dentist.
- What is inserted into the canal to absorb irrigating solution?
Cotton rolls
paper points
endodontic explorer wrapped with guaze
floss - -paper points
- the process of introducing certain metals such as titanium into living bone
and forming a biocompatible bond with living tissue
osteoplasty
osteoporosis
osseointegration
osteogenesis - -osseointegration
- what type of cells form enamel?
what type of cells form dentin?
ameloblasts
enamel organ
odontoblasts
cementoblasts - -ameloblasts, odontoblasts
- this type of dentin also known as reparative dentin, is formed in response
to irritation and appears as a localized deposit wall on the pulp chamber. this
may occur in reponse to attrition, erosion, dental caries, dental treatment or
other irritants
primary dentin
tertiary dentin
secondary dentin - -tertiary dentin
- what results when the maxillary and medial nasal process fails to fuse?
ankyloglossia
cleft palate
cleft lip
class III occlusion - -cleft lip
, - A soft mixture of bacteria and salivary proteins, also known as ''white
material''. Is visible without the use of a disclosing agent and is common in
individuals with poor oral hygiene
biofilm
acquired pellicle
food debris
material alba - -material alba
- A dental assistant measures a patients blood pressure. It reads 135/82,
what category is the patient?
hypertensive crisis
high blood pressure stage 2
elevated
high blood pressure stage 1 - -high blood pressure stage 1 (130-139/80-89)
- A patient has a bronchospasm/asthma attack during treatment, what do
you grab from the emergency kit?
Chlorohexidine
Albuterol
Aspirin
Nitroglycerin - -Albuterol/ventolin
- A pregnant patient comes in for 12, 13, and 45 fillings. Local anesthetic is
given and Isolite is used for isolation. She is put in supine position, she feels
dizzy and light headed when put up right due to the pressure of her enlarged
uterus on her abdominal veins. What should you do?
Sit her up right
turn her to her left side
give her a glass of water
put her in subsupine position - -A and B
- A patient is scheduled for an extraction of all her 8's. As you seat the
patient and explain the procedure, she begins to breath heavily and
hyperventilate. What you do to help her?
Quickly give her nitrous oxide to calm down
tell her to breathe into her hands cupped
put her in supine position and take her blood pressure
inform the doctor and grab an AED - -B
- what hand cutting instrument is used to prepare the tooth and plane the
walls and floors of the tooth preparation with a push-pull action
Hoe
Chisel
Hatchet
Excavator - -Hoe
