HOSA DENTAL EXAMS SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Adhesive - ✔✔Sticky or adhering material or substance
✔✔Adjacent - ✔✔Nearby or adjoining
✔✔Adjunctive orthodontics - ✔✔Necessary procedures taken to correct or restore
function
✔✔Adrenocorticosteriods - ✔✔Byproducts from the adrenal cortex
✔✔Adverse effect - ✔✔Response to a drug that is not desired;an effect could be too
intense,weak,toxic
✔✔Aerobes - ✔✔Microorganisms that cannot survive without oxygen;may be
faculatative(adaptable) or obligate
✔✔Aerobic - ✔✔Requiring oxygen to live;needing oxygen
✔✔Aerosol spray - ✔✔Drug solution suspended in and delivered by a propellant
✔✔Airway - ✔✔Device inserted into the mouth and down the throat to provide air
passage to the windpipe
✔✔Ala-tragus line - ✔✔Imaginary line from the ala(wing) of the nose to the ear
meatus(center of the ear)
✔✔-algia - ✔✔Pain
✔✔Alginate - ✔✔Seaweed;agar-based elastic impression material
✔✔Allergic reactions - ✔✔Sensitivity to an antigen present within the body, resulting in
various symptoms
✔✔Allograft - ✔✔Human bone graft from a person other than the patient
✔✔Alloy - ✔✔A mixture of metals
✔✔Alternating pulse sound - ✔✔Alterations of weak and strong pulsations
✔✔Alveolar - ✔✔Pertaining to the alveolus
✔✔Alveolectomy - ✔✔Surgical removal of alveolar bone crest
, ✔✔Alveolitis - ✔✔Infection or inflammation of the alveolar bone; a dry socket
✔✔Alveolus - ✔✔Bone growth on the boarder of the maxilla and mandible
✔✔Alveoplastomy - ✔✔Surgical reshaping or contouring of the alveolar bone
✔✔Amalgam - ✔✔Soft alloy mass containing mercury,which hardens into restoration
✔✔Amalgam carrier - ✔✔Hand instrument used to carry plastic (movable) amalgam to
restorative site
✔✔Amalgamation - ✔✔Blending or pulverizing an alloy with mercury
✔✔AMBU bag - ✔✔Bag device placed over the nose and mouth of the patient to apply
pressure- forced air into the lungs
✔✔Ameloblast - ✔✔Enamel forming cell; encourages cell growth for enamel tissue
✔✔Angiogenesis imperfecta - ✔✔Incomplete or improper development of enamel tissue
✔✔Amoxicillin - ✔✔Antibiotic drug (e.g., amosil,larotid)
✔✔Ampicillin - ✔✔Antibiotic type drug(e.g.,penicillin,omnipen)
✔✔Anaerobic - ✔✔Bacteria that don't need oxygen for survival; facultative anaerobics
grow best without oxygen, but don't require its absence
✔✔Analgesia - ✔✔Without pain;feeling of lack of pain
✔✔Anaglesic - ✔✔Drug that relieves pain
✔✔Anaphylactic - ✔✔Shock arising from the reaction to body allergen
✔✔Anaphylaxis - ✔✔Allergic reaction to a drug or food
✔✔Aneroid - ✔✔Dial-type blood- pressure descending air-pressure readings
✔✔Anesthesia - ✔✔Without sensation
✔✔Aneurysm - ✔✔Dilation of blood vessel due to wall weakness,possible rupture
✔✔Angina pectoris - ✔✔Pain or pressure around the heart
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Adhesive - ✔✔Sticky or adhering material or substance
✔✔Adjacent - ✔✔Nearby or adjoining
✔✔Adjunctive orthodontics - ✔✔Necessary procedures taken to correct or restore
function
✔✔Adrenocorticosteriods - ✔✔Byproducts from the adrenal cortex
✔✔Adverse effect - ✔✔Response to a drug that is not desired;an effect could be too
intense,weak,toxic
✔✔Aerobes - ✔✔Microorganisms that cannot survive without oxygen;may be
faculatative(adaptable) or obligate
✔✔Aerobic - ✔✔Requiring oxygen to live;needing oxygen
✔✔Aerosol spray - ✔✔Drug solution suspended in and delivered by a propellant
✔✔Airway - ✔✔Device inserted into the mouth and down the throat to provide air
passage to the windpipe
✔✔Ala-tragus line - ✔✔Imaginary line from the ala(wing) of the nose to the ear
meatus(center of the ear)
✔✔-algia - ✔✔Pain
✔✔Alginate - ✔✔Seaweed;agar-based elastic impression material
✔✔Allergic reactions - ✔✔Sensitivity to an antigen present within the body, resulting in
various symptoms
✔✔Allograft - ✔✔Human bone graft from a person other than the patient
✔✔Alloy - ✔✔A mixture of metals
✔✔Alternating pulse sound - ✔✔Alterations of weak and strong pulsations
✔✔Alveolar - ✔✔Pertaining to the alveolus
✔✔Alveolectomy - ✔✔Surgical removal of alveolar bone crest
, ✔✔Alveolitis - ✔✔Infection or inflammation of the alveolar bone; a dry socket
✔✔Alveolus - ✔✔Bone growth on the boarder of the maxilla and mandible
✔✔Alveoplastomy - ✔✔Surgical reshaping or contouring of the alveolar bone
✔✔Amalgam - ✔✔Soft alloy mass containing mercury,which hardens into restoration
✔✔Amalgam carrier - ✔✔Hand instrument used to carry plastic (movable) amalgam to
restorative site
✔✔Amalgamation - ✔✔Blending or pulverizing an alloy with mercury
✔✔AMBU bag - ✔✔Bag device placed over the nose and mouth of the patient to apply
pressure- forced air into the lungs
✔✔Ameloblast - ✔✔Enamel forming cell; encourages cell growth for enamel tissue
✔✔Angiogenesis imperfecta - ✔✔Incomplete or improper development of enamel tissue
✔✔Amoxicillin - ✔✔Antibiotic drug (e.g., amosil,larotid)
✔✔Ampicillin - ✔✔Antibiotic type drug(e.g.,penicillin,omnipen)
✔✔Anaerobic - ✔✔Bacteria that don't need oxygen for survival; facultative anaerobics
grow best without oxygen, but don't require its absence
✔✔Analgesia - ✔✔Without pain;feeling of lack of pain
✔✔Anaglesic - ✔✔Drug that relieves pain
✔✔Anaphylactic - ✔✔Shock arising from the reaction to body allergen
✔✔Anaphylaxis - ✔✔Allergic reaction to a drug or food
✔✔Aneroid - ✔✔Dial-type blood- pressure descending air-pressure readings
✔✔Anesthesia - ✔✔Without sensation
✔✔Aneurysm - ✔✔Dilation of blood vessel due to wall weakness,possible rupture
✔✔Angina pectoris - ✔✔Pain or pressure around the heart
