CSCE, DENTAL HYGIENE CSCE, RADIOGRAPHY
ANATOMY, DENTAL HYGIENE PROMETRIC 2
PRACTICE EXAM Questions and Answers Latest
Updates 2025 TOP RATED A+
Which cranial nerve determines gag reflex - Answer Glossopharyngeal IX
Chorda Tympani - Answer branch of facial nerve VII
sensory taste to anterior 2/3 of tongue
Sensory taste to posterior 1/3 of tongue - Answer Glossopharyngeal IX
What is the longest cranial nerve - Answer Vagus X
Which anterior tooth is most likely to be bifurcated? - Answer mand canine
What layer does enamel come from? - Answer ectodermal
What is special about the max pre-molars? - Answer mesial interradicular groove
What is special about the mesial root of the max and mand molars - Answer may
have 2 root canals
ASA nerve - Answer Innervates anterior teeth
pulp and mucosa
MSA - Answer Innervates max premolars and MB root of first molar
PSA - Answer Innervates max molars except MB root of first molar
Greater palatine nerve - Answer Innervates hard palate from premolars back
Nasopalatine nerve - Answer innervates mucosa behind max anteriors
Incisive nerve - Answer innervates mand anteriors
Inferior Alveolar - Answer innervates premolars and molars
Inferior dental plexus - Answer innervates gingiva of mand anteriors and premolars
Long buccal nerve - Answer buccal mucosa of mand
Lingual nerve - Answer lingual mucosa of mand
,What does pre-med do? - Answer prevent bacteremia
Radiograph of mandibular tori - Answer
What toothpaste ingredient is causing recurrent ulcers - Answer sodium laurly sulfate
What is a concern with a patient with bells palsy - Answer Difficulty swallowing
What do you need to know prior to Tx for a patient taking Warfarin? - Answer INR
Cementoma - Answer
Ranula - Answer
What is an oral side effect of Prozac? - Answer xerostomia
How do steroids effect wound healing? - Answer 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? - Answer refer the
patient to their physician immediately
Premedication regimine - Answer 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? - Answer 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? - Answer - look at location of 3rd molars
- impactions
- pathology
- NOT FOR BONE LOSS
Items containing fluoride? - Answer - tea
- pork
- fish
What type of water does not contain fluoride? - Answer well water
Know the papilla of the tongue - Answer - 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? - Answer elongation of the filiform papillae
Delayed eruption may be caused by - Answer delayed exfoliation
,Identify mandibular canal radiographically - Answer 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? - Answer -
caused by trauma
- not normal
Know film errors - Answer - 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 - Answer rhombus shaped, central denuded area
of the tongue with red appearance
What is the treatment for black hair tongue? - Answer brush it
What is a vitality test used for? - Answer testing to see if the pulp is vital or not
(applying cold air on cotton swap and pushing it against the tooth; if the pulp is vital it
hurts, if its necrotic you would not feel anything)
What are Hutchinson's incisors caused by? - Answer Syphillis, NOT biting on bobby
pins
Identify lingual varicosities.. are they normal? - Answer yes they're normal
How long should ultrasonic units be flushed? - Answer 20 seconds
What provides proof of sterilization? Spore test or autoclave tape? - Answer Spore
test
What does autoclave tape tell you? - Answer that it has reached proper temperature
Hep B vaccination also protects you from? - Answer Hep D
What can chlorhexidine cause? - Answer staining, increased calculus deposits
What instrument should you use to work on mandibular anterior gingiva? - Answer -
1/2 gracey
- columbia
- sickle ultrasonic
What drug causes bleeding? - Answer Aspirin
What does the 2nd premolar replace? - Answer the 2nd deciduous molar
What would you do for fordyce granules? - Answer leave alone; normal
, is a bifurcated maxillary canine normal? - Answer yes
What would you do for lingual erosion? - Answer rinse with sodium bicarbonate
Stannous fluoride is not found in which of the following? tea, pork, well water, or
fish? - Answer well water
Which is the only root that would be incomplete at age 15? - Answer the second
molar
Presents with a firm lesion on the ventral surface of the tongue? ranula, benign, or
malignant? - Answer ?
what is the panorex best used for? - Answer position of 3rd molars
What is wrong with the PANO picture? - Answer patient should not have on a thyroid
collar when taking a PAN
What can prednisone cause? - Answer delayed wound healing
How old is a patient with 2nd premolar, 1st molar, and 2nd molars are unerupted? -
Answer 11 years old
Does ankylosis of the tongue result in nutrition issues? - Answer no
What would recession to the apex of #24-25 be a result of? - Answer AIDS
Exaggerated gingival enlargement could be the result of what? - Answer
uncontrolled diabetes
What degree should the shank of the instrument be when scaling subgingivally? -
Answer 70 degrees
What should be done with safety glasses after each patient? - Answer washed
Does lingual candidiasis of lateral tongue wipe off? - Answer yes
What does leukoedema look like? - Answer white spot of buccal mucosa disappears
when the cheek is stretched
What type of drug is Procardia? - Answer calcium channel blocker
What is procardia used for? - Answer for high blood pressure
What does procardia cause intraorally? - Answer gingival enlargement
What would mandibular anterior, facial, bright pink and enlarged gingiva indicate? -
Answer pregnancy gingivitis
Are bifurcated mandibular premolars normal? - Answer yes
ANATOMY, DENTAL HYGIENE PROMETRIC 2
PRACTICE EXAM Questions and Answers Latest
Updates 2025 TOP RATED A+
Which cranial nerve determines gag reflex - Answer Glossopharyngeal IX
Chorda Tympani - Answer branch of facial nerve VII
sensory taste to anterior 2/3 of tongue
Sensory taste to posterior 1/3 of tongue - Answer Glossopharyngeal IX
What is the longest cranial nerve - Answer Vagus X
Which anterior tooth is most likely to be bifurcated? - Answer mand canine
What layer does enamel come from? - Answer ectodermal
What is special about the max pre-molars? - Answer mesial interradicular groove
What is special about the mesial root of the max and mand molars - Answer may
have 2 root canals
ASA nerve - Answer Innervates anterior teeth
pulp and mucosa
MSA - Answer Innervates max premolars and MB root of first molar
PSA - Answer Innervates max molars except MB root of first molar
Greater palatine nerve - Answer Innervates hard palate from premolars back
Nasopalatine nerve - Answer innervates mucosa behind max anteriors
Incisive nerve - Answer innervates mand anteriors
Inferior Alveolar - Answer innervates premolars and molars
Inferior dental plexus - Answer innervates gingiva of mand anteriors and premolars
Long buccal nerve - Answer buccal mucosa of mand
Lingual nerve - Answer lingual mucosa of mand
,What does pre-med do? - Answer prevent bacteremia
Radiograph of mandibular tori - Answer
What toothpaste ingredient is causing recurrent ulcers - Answer sodium laurly sulfate
What is a concern with a patient with bells palsy - Answer Difficulty swallowing
What do you need to know prior to Tx for a patient taking Warfarin? - Answer INR
Cementoma - Answer
Ranula - Answer
What is an oral side effect of Prozac? - Answer xerostomia
How do steroids effect wound healing? - Answer 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? - Answer refer the
patient to their physician immediately
Premedication regimine - Answer 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? - Answer 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? - Answer - look at location of 3rd molars
- impactions
- pathology
- NOT FOR BONE LOSS
Items containing fluoride? - Answer - tea
- pork
- fish
What type of water does not contain fluoride? - Answer well water
Know the papilla of the tongue - Answer - 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? - Answer elongation of the filiform papillae
Delayed eruption may be caused by - Answer delayed exfoliation
,Identify mandibular canal radiographically - Answer 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? - Answer -
caused by trauma
- not normal
Know film errors - Answer - 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 - Answer rhombus shaped, central denuded area
of the tongue with red appearance
What is the treatment for black hair tongue? - Answer brush it
What is a vitality test used for? - Answer testing to see if the pulp is vital or not
(applying cold air on cotton swap and pushing it against the tooth; if the pulp is vital it
hurts, if its necrotic you would not feel anything)
What are Hutchinson's incisors caused by? - Answer Syphillis, NOT biting on bobby
pins
Identify lingual varicosities.. are they normal? - Answer yes they're normal
How long should ultrasonic units be flushed? - Answer 20 seconds
What provides proof of sterilization? Spore test or autoclave tape? - Answer Spore
test
What does autoclave tape tell you? - Answer that it has reached proper temperature
Hep B vaccination also protects you from? - Answer Hep D
What can chlorhexidine cause? - Answer staining, increased calculus deposits
What instrument should you use to work on mandibular anterior gingiva? - Answer -
1/2 gracey
- columbia
- sickle ultrasonic
What drug causes bleeding? - Answer Aspirin
What does the 2nd premolar replace? - Answer the 2nd deciduous molar
What would you do for fordyce granules? - Answer leave alone; normal
, is a bifurcated maxillary canine normal? - Answer yes
What would you do for lingual erosion? - Answer rinse with sodium bicarbonate
Stannous fluoride is not found in which of the following? tea, pork, well water, or
fish? - Answer well water
Which is the only root that would be incomplete at age 15? - Answer the second
molar
Presents with a firm lesion on the ventral surface of the tongue? ranula, benign, or
malignant? - Answer ?
what is the panorex best used for? - Answer position of 3rd molars
What is wrong with the PANO picture? - Answer patient should not have on a thyroid
collar when taking a PAN
What can prednisone cause? - Answer delayed wound healing
How old is a patient with 2nd premolar, 1st molar, and 2nd molars are unerupted? -
Answer 11 years old
Does ankylosis of the tongue result in nutrition issues? - Answer no
What would recession to the apex of #24-25 be a result of? - Answer AIDS
Exaggerated gingival enlargement could be the result of what? - Answer
uncontrolled diabetes
What degree should the shank of the instrument be when scaling subgingivally? -
Answer 70 degrees
What should be done with safety glasses after each patient? - Answer washed
Does lingual candidiasis of lateral tongue wipe off? - Answer yes
What does leukoedema look like? - Answer white spot of buccal mucosa disappears
when the cheek is stretched
What type of drug is Procardia? - Answer calcium channel blocker
What is procardia used for? - Answer for high blood pressure
What does procardia cause intraorally? - Answer gingival enlargement
What would mandibular anterior, facial, bright pink and enlarged gingiva indicate? -
Answer pregnancy gingivitis
Are bifurcated mandibular premolars normal? - Answer yes
