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What is an oral side effect of Prozac? ✔Correct Answer-xerostomia

How do steroids effect wound healing? ✔Correct 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? ✔Correct Answer-refer the patient to their
physician immediately

Premedication regimine ✔Correct 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? ✔Correct 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? ✔Correct Answer-- look at location of 3rd molars
- impactions
- pathology
- NOT FOR BONE LOSS

Items containing fluoride? ✔Correct Answer-- tea
- pork
- fish

What type of water does not contain fluoride? ✔Correct Answer-well water

Know the papilla of the tongue ✔Correct 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? ✔Correct Answer-elongation of the filiform papillae

Delayed eruption may be caused by ✔Correct Answer-delayed exfoliation

,Identify mandibular canal radiographically ✔Correct 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? ✔Correct Answer--
caused by trauma
- not normal

Know film errors ✔Correct 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 ✔Correct Answer-rhombus shaped, central denuded area
of the tongue with red appearance

What is the treatment for black hair tongue? ✔Correct Answer-brush it

What is a vitality test used for? ✔Correct 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? ✔Correct Answer-Syphillis, NOT biting on bobby
pins

Identify lingual varicosities.. are they normal? ✔Correct Answer-yes they're normal

How long should ultrasonic units be flushed? ✔Correct Answer-20 seconds

What provides proof of sterilization? Spore test or autoclave tape? ✔Correct Answer-Spore
test

What does autoclave tape tell you? ✔Correct Answer-that it has reached proper temperature

Hep B vaccination also protects you from? ✔Correct Answer-Hep D

What can chlorhexidine cause? ✔Correct Answer-staining, increased calculus deposits

What instrument should you use to work on mandibular anterior gingiva? ✔Correct Answer--
1/2 gracey
- columbia
- sickle ultrasonic

What drug causes bleeding? ✔Correct Answer-Aspirin

,What does the 2nd premolar replace? ✔Correct Answer-the 2nd deciduous molar

What would you do for fordyce granules? ✔Correct Answer-leave alone; normal

is a bifurcated maxillary canine normal? ✔Correct Answer-yes

What would you do for lingual erosion? ✔Correct Answer-rinse with sodium bicarbonate

Stannous fluoride is not found in which of the following? tea, pork, well water, or fish?
✔Correct Answer-well water

Which is the only root that would be incomplete at age 15? ✔Correct Answer-the second
molar

Presents with a firm lesion on the ventral surface of the tongue? ranula, benign, or malignant?
✔Correct Answer-?

what is the panorex best used for? ✔Correct Answer-position of 3rd molars

What is wrong with the PANO picture? ✔Correct Answer-patient should not have on a thyroid
collar when taking a PAN

What can prednisone cause? ✔Correct Answer-delayed wound healing

How old is a patient with 2nd premolar, 1st molar, and 2nd molars are unerupted? ✔Correct
Answer-11 years old

Does ankylosis of the tongue result in nutrition issues? ✔Correct Answer-no

What would recession to the apex of #24-25 be a result of? ✔Correct Answer-AIDS

Exaggerated gingival enlargement could be the result of what? ✔Correct Answer-uncontrolled
diabetes

What degree should the shank of the instrument be when scaling subgingivally? ✔Correct
Answer-70 degrees

What should be done with safety glasses after each patient? ✔Correct Answer-washed

Does lingual candidiasis of lateral tongue wipe off? ✔Correct Answer-yes

What does leukoedema look like? ✔Correct Answer-white spot of buccal mucosa disappears
when the cheek is stretched

, What type of drug is Procardia? ✔Correct Answer-calcium channel blocker

What is procardia used for? ✔Correct Answer-for high blood pressure

What does procardia cause intraorally? ✔Correct Answer-gingival enlargement

What would mandibular anterior, facial, bright pink and enlarged gingiva indicate? ✔Correct
Answer-pregnancy gingivitis

Are bifurcated mandibular premolars normal? ✔Correct Answer-yes

What drink can cause facial erosion? ✔Correct Answer-fruit juice

What does median rhomboid glossitis look like? ✔Correct Answer-red lump in center of
posterior portion of tongue

What is the treatment for median rhomboid glossitis? ✔Correct Answer-antifungals

Know what cross bite looks like ✔Correct Answer-...

Know classes of occlusion ✔Correct Answer-Class I: mesiobuccal cusp of maxillary first molar
occludes with buccal groove of mandibular first molar

Class II: buccal groove of mandibular first molar is distal to the mesiobuccal cusp of maxillary fits
molar

Class III: buccal groove of mandibular first molar is mesial to the mesiobuccal cusp of maxillary
first molar

Why would there be a white triangle covering all the mandibular anteriors and chin on a PAN?
✔Correct Answer-If the mouth looks smiley then the chin was too low, if the mouth looked
frowning then the chin was too high

FDA regulates ✔Correct Answer-fluoride content in bottled water

medications that cause increased bleeding? ✔Correct Answer-anticoagulants (warfarin,
heparin), antiplatelets (aspirin, plavix), blood modifiers (xarelto, eliquis, pradaxa)

medications that cause gingival hyperplasia? ✔Correct Answer-- anti-seizure: Dilantin
- calcium channel blockers: Norvask, Procardia (used to control BP)
- Cyclosporine (used an immunosuppressant)

Determine age of patient by teeth present ✔Correct Answer-...

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