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Prepare effectively for your certification assessment with the Dental Hygiene Prometric Exam Study Guide, featuring 100% verified with correct questions and answers with solution updated for 2025/ 2026. This comprehensive study resource reviews oral anatomy, periodontology, infection prevention, radiography, patient assessment, preventive dental care, ethics, and clinical procedures, helping learners reinforce essential concepts, strengthen test-taking skills, and build confidence for the Prometric dental hygiene examination.

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DENTAL HYGIENE PROMETRIC
EXAM, CSCE, CSCE, 2 DENTAL
HYGIENE PROMETRIC 2,
COMPUTER SIMULATED DENTAL
HYGIENE EXAM, DENTAL HYGIENE
PROMETRIC EXAM CDCA, DENTAL
HYGIENE COMPUTER SIMULATED
CASE TEST/728 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS(A+)
What is an oral side effect of Prozac? - =xerostomia

-How do steroids effect wound healing? - =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? - =refer the
patient to their physician immediately

-Premedication regimine - =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? - =administer another 300 mg and
wait 1 hr prior to treatment (because their clindamycin
premed is 600mg 1hr prior to treatment)




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-What is a PAN used for? - =- look at location of 3rd
molars
- impactions
- pathology
- NOT FOR BONE LOSS

-Items containing fluoride? - =- tea
- pork
- fish

-What type of water does not contain fluoride? - =well
water

-Know the papilla of the tongue - =- 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? - =elongation of the
filiform papillae

-Delayed eruption may be caused by - =delayed
exfoliation

-Identify mandibular canal radiographically -
=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? - =- caused by trauma



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- not normal

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

-What is the treatment for black hair tongue? - =brush it

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

-Identify lingual varicosities.. are they normal? - =yes
they're normal

-How long should ultrasonic units be flushed? - =20
seconds

-What provides proof of sterilization? Spore test or
autoclave tape? - =Spore test

-What does autoclave tape tell you? - =that it has
reached proper temperature




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-Hep B vaccination also protects you from? - =Hep D

-What can chlorhexidine cause? - =staining, increased
calculus deposits

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

-What drug causes bleeding? - =Aspirin

-What does the 2nd premolar replace? - =the 2nd
deciduous molar

-What would you do for fordyce granules? - =leave
alone; normal

-is a bifurcated maxillary canine normal? - =yes

-What would you do for lingual erosion? - =rinse with
sodium bicarbonate

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

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

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




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