RDA Practice Exam #1 questions with
correct answers
Direct Supervision refers to? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Dentist on
premises & examines the treatment performed by DA or RDA before
releasing patient
General Supervision - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Doctor/Dentist - is out of
office, but has scheduled auxiliary to be at work
Nitrous Oxide administration - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Dentist - must
remain in the operator & Assistant may adjust controls as directed by the
dentist
A parent brings in child to office on the dentist's day off, the child has a
large cavity. The dentist is unreachable by telephone. The "RDA" should
do or advise what? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Refer to another dentist
Under General Supervision the RDA may perform? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔1. Mouth Mirror
2. Place and remove sedative dressings
3. Expose radiographs
An impression for a "Hawley Retainer" may legally be taken by who? - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Dentist only
Under Direct supervision the "RDA" may perform? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔1. Pulp Vitality test
2. Cementation of temporaries
3. Size Stainless steel bands, crowns, and orthodontic bands.
, Under Direct Supervision the dental assistant may perform what? - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1. Place topical anesthetic
2. Monitor Vital signs
3. Place rubber dam
RDA CEU licensure renewal requirements - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1.
Twenty-five units of continuing education every two years
One continuing education unit is equivalent to a lecture or seminar of
what? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔One hour
The RDA license is renewed when? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1. The
RDA's birthday
2. Odd or even year of birth
How many continuing education units may be earned in Category 1 and
Category II? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔At least half must be Category II
The maximum number of continuing education units which may be earned
in "one day" are how many? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔8 units
To qualify to the the RDA examination, one must meet any of the following
criteria - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1. Graduate dental assisting program
- accredited by the California Board of Dental Examiners
2. Eighteen months - full-time work experience in a dental office
Dental Assistant may perform what? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Place
and remove rubber dams
When a patient is injured by an auxiliary who is liable? - ** VERIFIED
ANSWERS **✔✔1. Dentist
2. Employee
correct answers
Direct Supervision refers to? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Dentist on
premises & examines the treatment performed by DA or RDA before
releasing patient
General Supervision - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Doctor/Dentist - is out of
office, but has scheduled auxiliary to be at work
Nitrous Oxide administration - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Dentist - must
remain in the operator & Assistant may adjust controls as directed by the
dentist
A parent brings in child to office on the dentist's day off, the child has a
large cavity. The dentist is unreachable by telephone. The "RDA" should
do or advise what? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Refer to another dentist
Under General Supervision the RDA may perform? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔1. Mouth Mirror
2. Place and remove sedative dressings
3. Expose radiographs
An impression for a "Hawley Retainer" may legally be taken by who? - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Dentist only
Under Direct supervision the "RDA" may perform? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔1. Pulp Vitality test
2. Cementation of temporaries
3. Size Stainless steel bands, crowns, and orthodontic bands.
, Under Direct Supervision the dental assistant may perform what? - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1. Place topical anesthetic
2. Monitor Vital signs
3. Place rubber dam
RDA CEU licensure renewal requirements - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1.
Twenty-five units of continuing education every two years
One continuing education unit is equivalent to a lecture or seminar of
what? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔One hour
The RDA license is renewed when? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1. The
RDA's birthday
2. Odd or even year of birth
How many continuing education units may be earned in Category 1 and
Category II? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔At least half must be Category II
The maximum number of continuing education units which may be earned
in "one day" are how many? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔8 units
To qualify to the the RDA examination, one must meet any of the following
criteria - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1. Graduate dental assisting program
- accredited by the California Board of Dental Examiners
2. Eighteen months - full-time work experience in a dental office
Dental Assistant may perform what? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Place
and remove rubber dams
When a patient is injured by an auxiliary who is liable? - ** VERIFIED
ANSWERS **✔✔1. Dentist
2. Employee
