CMTI DENTAL ASSISTANT COURSE FINAL EXAM
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is an Endodontist?
Answer:
Root canal specialist
Question:
2. What is a Periodontist?
Answer:
A dentist that specializes in gum disease
Question:
3. What is a General Dentist?
Answer:
A dentist that performs most aspects of dentistry
Question:
4. What is an Oral Surgeon?
Answer:
A dentist that specializes in oral surgery
Question:
5. What is a Prosthodontist?
Answer:
A dentist that specializes in dental prosthetics
Question:
6. What is an Orthodontist?
Answer:
specializes in straightening teeth
Question:
7. What is a Pedodontist?
Answer:
A dentist that specializes in childrens dentistry
Question:
8. What is tooth number 10?
Answer:
Upper left lateral
,Question:
9. What is tooth #30
Answer:
Lower right first molar
Question:
10. What is tooth #24?
Answer:
Lower left central
Question:
11. What is tooth #12?
Answer:
Upper left first bicuspid
Question:
12. What is tooth # 14
Answer:
Upper left first molar
Question:
13. What is tooth # 3
Answer:
Upper right first molar
Question:
14. What is tooth #9
Answer:
Upper left central
Question:
15. What is tooth #6?
Answer:
Upper right cuspid
Question:
16. What is tooth # 32?
Answer:
Lower right third molar
Question:
17. What is tooth #19 ?
Answer:
Lower left first molar
, Question:
18. What is an abcess?
Answer:
An infection of a tooth, soft issue or bone
Question:
19. What is anesthesia?
Answer:
A type of medication that results in the elimination of pain sensation
Question:
20. What is bone resorption?
Answer:
Decrease in the amount of bone supporting the roots of teeth
Question:
21. What is a canker sore?
Answer:
Sores or small shallow ulcers that appear in the mouth
Question:
22. What is dry socket?
Answer:
A common complication that occurs when either a blood clot has failed to form in an extracted tooth
socket or else the blood clot that did form has been dislodged
Question:
23. What is a composite resin filling
Answer:
Tooth colored restorative material made of plastic with small glass or ceramic particles
Question:
24. What is a fistula?
Answer:
A channel emanating pus from an infected site
Question:
25. What is gum recession?
Answer:
Exposure of dental roots due to shrinkage of gum tissue
Question:
26. What is an intruded tooth?
Answer:
Tooth is pushed into the gums
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is an Endodontist?
Answer:
Root canal specialist
Question:
2. What is a Periodontist?
Answer:
A dentist that specializes in gum disease
Question:
3. What is a General Dentist?
Answer:
A dentist that performs most aspects of dentistry
Question:
4. What is an Oral Surgeon?
Answer:
A dentist that specializes in oral surgery
Question:
5. What is a Prosthodontist?
Answer:
A dentist that specializes in dental prosthetics
Question:
6. What is an Orthodontist?
Answer:
specializes in straightening teeth
Question:
7. What is a Pedodontist?
Answer:
A dentist that specializes in childrens dentistry
Question:
8. What is tooth number 10?
Answer:
Upper left lateral
,Question:
9. What is tooth #30
Answer:
Lower right first molar
Question:
10. What is tooth #24?
Answer:
Lower left central
Question:
11. What is tooth #12?
Answer:
Upper left first bicuspid
Question:
12. What is tooth # 14
Answer:
Upper left first molar
Question:
13. What is tooth # 3
Answer:
Upper right first molar
Question:
14. What is tooth #9
Answer:
Upper left central
Question:
15. What is tooth #6?
Answer:
Upper right cuspid
Question:
16. What is tooth # 32?
Answer:
Lower right third molar
Question:
17. What is tooth #19 ?
Answer:
Lower left first molar
, Question:
18. What is an abcess?
Answer:
An infection of a tooth, soft issue or bone
Question:
19. What is anesthesia?
Answer:
A type of medication that results in the elimination of pain sensation
Question:
20. What is bone resorption?
Answer:
Decrease in the amount of bone supporting the roots of teeth
Question:
21. What is a canker sore?
Answer:
Sores or small shallow ulcers that appear in the mouth
Question:
22. What is dry socket?
Answer:
A common complication that occurs when either a blood clot has failed to form in an extracted tooth
socket or else the blood clot that did form has been dislodged
Question:
23. What is a composite resin filling
Answer:
Tooth colored restorative material made of plastic with small glass or ceramic particles
Question:
24. What is a fistula?
Answer:
A channel emanating pus from an infected site
Question:
25. What is gum recession?
Answer:
Exposure of dental roots due to shrinkage of gum tissue
Question:
26. What is an intruded tooth?
Answer:
Tooth is pushed into the gums