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Dental Hygiene Prometric Exam
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What is an oral side effect of Prozac?
Ans: xerostomia
How do steroids effect wound healing?
Ans: causes delayed wound healing
What should be done with a patient with a previous history of high
blood pressure and comes in for their appointment with reading of
160/116?
Ans: refer the patient to their physician immediately
Premedication regimine
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Ans: 2g Amoxicillin
600 mg Clindamycin
Patient comes in for appointment who needs premed, and they
took 300 mg 1 hour prior to their appointment. What would you do?
Ans: administer another 300 mg and wait 1 hr prior to treatment (because
their clindamycin premed is 600mg 1hr prior to treatment)
What is a PAN used for?
Ans: - look at location of 3rd molars
- impactions
- cysts/tumors
- *NOT* FOR BONE LOSS
Which does not have naturally occuring fluoride?
Ans: - pork
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What type of water does not contain fluoride?
Ans: well water
Know the papilla of the tongue
Ans: - filiform (most numerous, very small)
- fungiform (mushroom shape, contain taste buds)
- circumvallate (larger mushroom shaped, contain taste buds, on anterior
side of sulcus terminalis)
- foliate (leaf shaped, lateral border of tongue)
What is hairy tongue caused by?
Ans: elongation of the filiform papillae
Delayed eruption may be caused by
Ans: delayed exfoliation
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Mandibular canal
Ans: radiolucent, long dark area outlined with dense cortical bone,
located above or parallel to the inferior border of the mandible
What is thickened lamina dura caused by?
Is this appearance normal?
Ans: - caused by trauma
- not normal
Know film errors
Ans: - elongation: too little vertical angulation
- foreshortening: too much vertical angulation
- cone cut: PID not aligned with censor
- overlap: incorrect horizontal angulation
Identify median rhomboid glossitis
Dental Hygiene Prometric Exam
Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest
Update / Already Graded
What is an oral side effect of Prozac?
Ans: xerostomia
How do steroids effect wound healing?
Ans: causes delayed wound healing
What should be done with a patient with a previous history of high
blood pressure and comes in for their appointment with reading of
160/116?
Ans: refer the patient to their physician immediately
Premedication regimine
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Ans: 2g Amoxicillin
600 mg Clindamycin
Patient comes in for appointment who needs premed, and they
took 300 mg 1 hour prior to their appointment. What would you do?
Ans: administer another 300 mg and wait 1 hr prior to treatment (because
their clindamycin premed is 600mg 1hr prior to treatment)
What is a PAN used for?
Ans: - look at location of 3rd molars
- impactions
- cysts/tumors
- *NOT* FOR BONE LOSS
Which does not have naturally occuring fluoride?
Ans: - pork
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What type of water does not contain fluoride?
Ans: well water
Know the papilla of the tongue
Ans: - filiform (most numerous, very small)
- fungiform (mushroom shape, contain taste buds)
- circumvallate (larger mushroom shaped, contain taste buds, on anterior
side of sulcus terminalis)
- foliate (leaf shaped, lateral border of tongue)
What is hairy tongue caused by?
Ans: elongation of the filiform papillae
Delayed eruption may be caused by
Ans: delayed exfoliation
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Mandibular canal
Ans: radiolucent, long dark area outlined with dense cortical bone,
located above or parallel to the inferior border of the mandible
What is thickened lamina dura caused by?
Is this appearance normal?
Ans: - caused by trauma
- not normal
Know film errors
Ans: - elongation: too little vertical angulation
- foreshortening: too much vertical angulation
- cone cut: PID not aligned with censor
- overlap: incorrect horizontal angulation
Identify median rhomboid glossitis
