PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY EXAMINATION
QUESTIONS WITH 100% VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Lingual to buccal - Answer- How should you place rubber dam clamps and stainless
steel crowns?
Color: Much whiter than permanent teeth
Contacts: Broad flat contact areas - Answer- Describe the color and interproximal
contacts of primary teeth
Stainless steel crowns - Answer- Which has a higher survival rate, class II restorations
or stainless steel crowns?
Natal - Present at birth
Neonatal - Erupt shortly after birth - Answer- What are natal and neonatal teeth?
If significantly mobile (aspiration risk) - Answer- When would you extract natal or
neonatal teeth?
A concussion/ subluxation injury, only EXT if abscessed - Answer- What does a dark
primary tooth indicate?
F - Answer- T/F Primary teeth should be re-implanted if avulsed?
T - Answer- T/F Adults should brush and floss the child daily until they can tie their own
shoes
Roots need to resorb to allow permanent teeth to erupt - Answer- Why do you not endo
primary teeth?
F - Answer- T/F you can use EPT on children
MTA or Calcium hydroxide - Answer- What materials can be used for a direct pulp cap?
Indirect pulp therapy - Answer- Is indirect or direct pulp therapy more successful?
No, if it is causing grief then EXT - Answer- If a primary tooth has less than 2/3 of the
root remaining should you complete a pulpotomy on it?
, When no permanent successor exists, these are not very successful (salvage work) -
Answer- When could you consider a pulpectomy on a primary tooth?
Allow it to re-erupt - Answer- If a child presents with a straight intrusion with half of the
crown visible, what should you do?
Good documentation - Answer- What is important with all trauma cases?
Class I - Enamel fracture involving no dentin
Class II - Fracture of enamel and dentin not involving pulp
Class III - Extensive fracture of crown with exposure of pulpal tissues
Class IV - Loss of the entire crown from the tooth - Answer- What are the Ellis
classification of tooth fractures?
Dynamic disease - Answer- What type of disease is caries considered to be according
to CAMBRA?
If you cannot see the interproximal contact - Answer- When should you take a PA on a
pediatric pt prior to first permanent molars erupting?
Non-verbal communication - Answer- What type of communication is facial expression?
When there is a premature loss of second primary molars and no erupted 1st
permanent molar. - Answer- When is a distal shoe indicated?
Stainless steel crown - Answer- What treatment is indicated in a large carious lesion in
a primary molar which compromises the marginal ridge?
Speak in layman's terms with parent
Provide anticipatory guidance
Assess childs willingness to cooperate - Answer- What are some obligations of the
dentist when examining a child?
FRANKL 3 - Answer- What FRANKL score would a cautious, shy, and reluctant child
be?
There is not one, children give you crazy answers - Answer- What is the most
predictable way to determine pulp vitality in very young patients?
Maxillary 1st permanent molars
Permanent canines
Permanent incisors
QUESTIONS WITH 100% VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Lingual to buccal - Answer- How should you place rubber dam clamps and stainless
steel crowns?
Color: Much whiter than permanent teeth
Contacts: Broad flat contact areas - Answer- Describe the color and interproximal
contacts of primary teeth
Stainless steel crowns - Answer- Which has a higher survival rate, class II restorations
or stainless steel crowns?
Natal - Present at birth
Neonatal - Erupt shortly after birth - Answer- What are natal and neonatal teeth?
If significantly mobile (aspiration risk) - Answer- When would you extract natal or
neonatal teeth?
A concussion/ subluxation injury, only EXT if abscessed - Answer- What does a dark
primary tooth indicate?
F - Answer- T/F Primary teeth should be re-implanted if avulsed?
T - Answer- T/F Adults should brush and floss the child daily until they can tie their own
shoes
Roots need to resorb to allow permanent teeth to erupt - Answer- Why do you not endo
primary teeth?
F - Answer- T/F you can use EPT on children
MTA or Calcium hydroxide - Answer- What materials can be used for a direct pulp cap?
Indirect pulp therapy - Answer- Is indirect or direct pulp therapy more successful?
No, if it is causing grief then EXT - Answer- If a primary tooth has less than 2/3 of the
root remaining should you complete a pulpotomy on it?
, When no permanent successor exists, these are not very successful (salvage work) -
Answer- When could you consider a pulpectomy on a primary tooth?
Allow it to re-erupt - Answer- If a child presents with a straight intrusion with half of the
crown visible, what should you do?
Good documentation - Answer- What is important with all trauma cases?
Class I - Enamel fracture involving no dentin
Class II - Fracture of enamel and dentin not involving pulp
Class III - Extensive fracture of crown with exposure of pulpal tissues
Class IV - Loss of the entire crown from the tooth - Answer- What are the Ellis
classification of tooth fractures?
Dynamic disease - Answer- What type of disease is caries considered to be according
to CAMBRA?
If you cannot see the interproximal contact - Answer- When should you take a PA on a
pediatric pt prior to first permanent molars erupting?
Non-verbal communication - Answer- What type of communication is facial expression?
When there is a premature loss of second primary molars and no erupted 1st
permanent molar. - Answer- When is a distal shoe indicated?
Stainless steel crown - Answer- What treatment is indicated in a large carious lesion in
a primary molar which compromises the marginal ridge?
Speak in layman's terms with parent
Provide anticipatory guidance
Assess childs willingness to cooperate - Answer- What are some obligations of the
dentist when examining a child?
FRANKL 3 - Answer- What FRANKL score would a cautious, shy, and reluctant child
be?
There is not one, children give you crazy answers - Answer- What is the most
predictable way to determine pulp vitality in very young patients?
Maxillary 1st permanent molars
Permanent canines
Permanent incisors
