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Dental Hygiene Process of Care - Answer ✔✔Assessment
Diagnosis (prognosis)
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Documentation
public health dentist - Answer ✔✔Works on cause and prevention of common dental
disease.
objective symptoms - Answer ✔✔Symptoms that can be seen by anyone
subjective symptoms - Answer ✔✔symptoms that can be felt, such as itching, burning, or
pain
odontalgia - Answer ✔✔toothache
Etiology - Answer ✔✔cause of disease
acute - Answer ✔✔New, usually of rapid onset and of concern, opposite of chronic
exogenous - Answer ✔✔Produced outside the body
ex hypothermia caused by cold
Endogenous - Answer ✔✔Produced within the body
ex: tumors
, degenerative - Answer ✔✔breaking down
Nosocomial - Answer ✔✔hospital acquired infection
Aerobic - Answer ✔✔bacteria that require oxygen to live and grow
faculative aerobe - Answer ✔✔bacteria that can live in oxygen but don't need oxygen
Anaerobic - Answer ✔✔bacteria that can live without oxygen
facultative anaerobes - Answer ✔✔bacteria that do best without oxygen, but can live with it
spore - Answer ✔✔A reproductive cell with a hard, protective coating
Endospore - Answer ✔✔A small, rounded, thick-walled, resting cell that forms inside a
bacterial cell
Viruses - Answer ✔✔tiny parasitic organisms that cause disease
Rickettsia - Answer ✔✔a small bacterium that lives in lice, fleas, ticks, and mites
Vector - Answer ✔✔carrier (of disease, for example lice, fleas, ticks)
protozoa - Answer ✔✔small animal parasites or organisms. Cause malaria, dysentery, &
encephalitis
Saprophytes (decomposers) - Answer ✔✔feed on dead or decaying organisms
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Dental Hygiene Process of Care - Answer ✔✔Assessment
Diagnosis (prognosis)
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Documentation
public health dentist - Answer ✔✔Works on cause and prevention of common dental
disease.
objective symptoms - Answer ✔✔Symptoms that can be seen by anyone
subjective symptoms - Answer ✔✔symptoms that can be felt, such as itching, burning, or
pain
odontalgia - Answer ✔✔toothache
Etiology - Answer ✔✔cause of disease
acute - Answer ✔✔New, usually of rapid onset and of concern, opposite of chronic
exogenous - Answer ✔✔Produced outside the body
ex hypothermia caused by cold
Endogenous - Answer ✔✔Produced within the body
ex: tumors
, degenerative - Answer ✔✔breaking down
Nosocomial - Answer ✔✔hospital acquired infection
Aerobic - Answer ✔✔bacteria that require oxygen to live and grow
faculative aerobe - Answer ✔✔bacteria that can live in oxygen but don't need oxygen
Anaerobic - Answer ✔✔bacteria that can live without oxygen
facultative anaerobes - Answer ✔✔bacteria that do best without oxygen, but can live with it
spore - Answer ✔✔A reproductive cell with a hard, protective coating
Endospore - Answer ✔✔A small, rounded, thick-walled, resting cell that forms inside a
bacterial cell
Viruses - Answer ✔✔tiny parasitic organisms that cause disease
Rickettsia - Answer ✔✔a small bacterium that lives in lice, fleas, ticks, and mites
Vector - Answer ✔✔carrier (of disease, for example lice, fleas, ticks)
protozoa - Answer ✔✔small animal parasites or organisms. Cause malaria, dysentery, &
encephalitis
Saprophytes (decomposers) - Answer ✔✔feed on dead or decaying organisms
