AAPD Oral Board Exam Questions & Answers (100% VERIFIED)
Question 1:
Dental Home
Answer:
an ongoing relationship between the dentist and the patient, including all aspects of oral health care
delivered in a comprehensive, continuously accessible, coordinated, and family-centered way
Question 2:
What is the most cost effective way to provide dental care?
Answer:
Dental home
Question 3:
What is the most common infectious disease among U.S. children?
Answer:
Dental caries, particularly among poor, non-white children
Question 4:
When should a dental home be established?
Answer:
within 6 months of first tooth eruption and No later than 12 months
Question 5:
What is dental neglect
Answer:
WILLFUL failure of parent or guardian to seek and follow through with treatment necessary to ensure a
level of oral heath essential for adequate function and freedom from pain and infection.
Question 6:
Dental disability
Answer:
orofacial pain, infection, or pathological condition and/or lack of functional dentition affect nutritional
intake, growth and development, or participation in life activities.
,Question 7:
Medically-necessary care
Answer:
Reasonable and essential diagnostic, preventive, and treatment services (including supplies, appliances,
and devices) and follow-up care as determined by qualified health care providers in treating any
condition, disease, injury, or
congenital or developmental malformation to promote optimal health, growth, and development. MNC
Answer:
includes all supportive health care services that, in the judgment of the attending dentist, are necessary
for the provision of optimal quality therapeutic and preventive oral care. These services include, but are
not limited to, sedation, general anesthesia, and utilization of surgical facilities.
Question 8:
MNC
Answer:
the probability of good health and well-being and the likelihood of an unfavorable outcome. increases,
decreases
Question 9:
Perinatal
Answer:
20th week of gestation to 4 weeks post-partum
Question 10:
Women are more or less susceptible to oral disease? Why?
Answer:
More susceptible, due to endocrinological fluctuations during pregnancy.
Question 11:
Poor oral health is associated with what birth problems?
Answer:
Low birthwaeight, growth restriction, preterm delivery, preclampsia, early pregnancy loss, and
intrauterine fetal demise.
Question 12:
and avoiding tobacco and alcohol is protective for oral facial clefts?
Folic acid
Answer:
Use of
,Question 13:
Pillow under the
Answer:
hip maintains the uterus off the vena cava right
Question 14:
What analgesics should be avoided during pregnancy?
Answer:
Ibuprofen and Naproxen, during 1st and 3rd trimester.
Question 15:
Can opiods be used during pregnancy?
Answer:
yes just minimum effectvie dose as they do cross the placenta
Question 16:
What antibiotics should be avoided during pregnancy?
Answer:
Erythromycin, tetracycline, fluoroquinolones.
Question 17:
Infants born via C-section are colonized by S. Mutans
Answer:
compared to vaginal births Earlier
Question 18:
Teenage pregnancy (11-15) causes the following:
Answer:
Pregnancy-induced hypertension (causes increased bleeding during procedures), anemia, sexually
transmissble diseases, and premature delivery
Question 19:
Mild hypertension
Answer:
Equal to or greater than 140/90
Question 20:
Severe hypertension
Answer:
Greater than or equal to 160/110
, Question 21:
Acute onset, severe hypertension that persists for 15 minutes or more =
Answer:
Emergency. Physician should be notified immediately.
Question 22:
Maternal levels of vitamin
Answer:
may affect primary tooth development D
Question 23:
Approximately
Answer:
percent of pregnant participants reported persistent xerostomia
Xerostomia
Question 24:
There is an correlation between periodontal disease in prengnant women and
Answer:
diabetes gestational
Question 25:
Poor plaque control added with hormone changes in pregnancy can lead to development of what
pathology?
Answer:
Pyogenic Granuloma
Question 26:
Due to increased risk of fetal hypoxia leading to inreased risk of pregnancy loss, what should be avoided?
Answer:
Nitrious Oxide during the first trimester
Question 27:
Due to worries regaring merucury, what products should be avoided during pregnancy?
Tooth whitening products that contain or generate hydrogen peroxide (releases inorganic mercury from
amalgam fillings)
What should be done before brushing after vomitting?
Answer:
Rinse with a cup of water containing a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate.
Question 1:
Dental Home
Answer:
an ongoing relationship between the dentist and the patient, including all aspects of oral health care
delivered in a comprehensive, continuously accessible, coordinated, and family-centered way
Question 2:
What is the most cost effective way to provide dental care?
Answer:
Dental home
Question 3:
What is the most common infectious disease among U.S. children?
Answer:
Dental caries, particularly among poor, non-white children
Question 4:
When should a dental home be established?
Answer:
within 6 months of first tooth eruption and No later than 12 months
Question 5:
What is dental neglect
Answer:
WILLFUL failure of parent or guardian to seek and follow through with treatment necessary to ensure a
level of oral heath essential for adequate function and freedom from pain and infection.
Question 6:
Dental disability
Answer:
orofacial pain, infection, or pathological condition and/or lack of functional dentition affect nutritional
intake, growth and development, or participation in life activities.
,Question 7:
Medically-necessary care
Answer:
Reasonable and essential diagnostic, preventive, and treatment services (including supplies, appliances,
and devices) and follow-up care as determined by qualified health care providers in treating any
condition, disease, injury, or
congenital or developmental malformation to promote optimal health, growth, and development. MNC
Answer:
includes all supportive health care services that, in the judgment of the attending dentist, are necessary
for the provision of optimal quality therapeutic and preventive oral care. These services include, but are
not limited to, sedation, general anesthesia, and utilization of surgical facilities.
Question 8:
MNC
Answer:
the probability of good health and well-being and the likelihood of an unfavorable outcome. increases,
decreases
Question 9:
Perinatal
Answer:
20th week of gestation to 4 weeks post-partum
Question 10:
Women are more or less susceptible to oral disease? Why?
Answer:
More susceptible, due to endocrinological fluctuations during pregnancy.
Question 11:
Poor oral health is associated with what birth problems?
Answer:
Low birthwaeight, growth restriction, preterm delivery, preclampsia, early pregnancy loss, and
intrauterine fetal demise.
Question 12:
and avoiding tobacco and alcohol is protective for oral facial clefts?
Folic acid
Answer:
Use of
,Question 13:
Pillow under the
Answer:
hip maintains the uterus off the vena cava right
Question 14:
What analgesics should be avoided during pregnancy?
Answer:
Ibuprofen and Naproxen, during 1st and 3rd trimester.
Question 15:
Can opiods be used during pregnancy?
Answer:
yes just minimum effectvie dose as they do cross the placenta
Question 16:
What antibiotics should be avoided during pregnancy?
Answer:
Erythromycin, tetracycline, fluoroquinolones.
Question 17:
Infants born via C-section are colonized by S. Mutans
Answer:
compared to vaginal births Earlier
Question 18:
Teenage pregnancy (11-15) causes the following:
Answer:
Pregnancy-induced hypertension (causes increased bleeding during procedures), anemia, sexually
transmissble diseases, and premature delivery
Question 19:
Mild hypertension
Answer:
Equal to or greater than 140/90
Question 20:
Severe hypertension
Answer:
Greater than or equal to 160/110
, Question 21:
Acute onset, severe hypertension that persists for 15 minutes or more =
Answer:
Emergency. Physician should be notified immediately.
Question 22:
Maternal levels of vitamin
Answer:
may affect primary tooth development D
Question 23:
Approximately
Answer:
percent of pregnant participants reported persistent xerostomia
Xerostomia
Question 24:
There is an correlation between periodontal disease in prengnant women and
Answer:
diabetes gestational
Question 25:
Poor plaque control added with hormone changes in pregnancy can lead to development of what
pathology?
Answer:
Pyogenic Granuloma
Question 26:
Due to increased risk of fetal hypoxia leading to inreased risk of pregnancy loss, what should be avoided?
Answer:
Nitrious Oxide during the first trimester
Question 27:
Due to worries regaring merucury, what products should be avoided during pregnancy?
Tooth whitening products that contain or generate hydrogen peroxide (releases inorganic mercury from
amalgam fillings)
What should be done before brushing after vomitting?
Answer:
Rinse with a cup of water containing a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate.
