DENTAL HYGIENE NATIONAL BOARD
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE WITH SOLVED
QUESTIONS
◉ What is the fundamentals of private dental practice?
Answer: Health history and examination (assessment), diagnosis,
treatment planning, treatment, payment, and evaluation
◉ What is the difference between the community oral health and
private practice oral health?
Answer: community assesses a whole community and private
practice assess an individual's needs
◉ What are the 4 government levels of community dental health?
Answer: International, Federal, State, and local
◉ What is a prime example of International community dental
health?
Answer: WHO- World Health Organization
◉ Who published Healthy People of 2010?
Answer: DHHS- Department of Health and Human Services
,◉ What level of governement coordinates programs for
underdeveloped nations and gathers epidemiological data for
comparison across nations?
Answer: The international
◉ What would be a good index to use for international populations
utilizing minimal equipment?
Answer: Community Periodontal Index of Treatment Needs (CPITN)
◉ What level of government acts on oral health problems of national
significance primarily within the jurisdiction of the Department of
Health and Human Services?
Answer: Federal
◉ What are some example of federal agencies involved with
community oral health issues?
Answer: CDC-Center of Disease Control and Prevention, Health
Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), and National
Institute of Health NIH)
◉ What level of government provides consultation services to local
health departments?
Answer: State
,◉ What level of government directly administers county and city
programs and initiates dental health legislative measures like
fluoridation?
Answer: Local
◉ What is the study of Health and Disease in populations?
Answer: Epidemiology
◉ How does Epidemiologic studies usually report finding?
Answer: in terms of prevalence or incidence of disease
◉ What term refers to the estimated population of people who are
managing a disease at any given time?
Answer: Prevalence
◉ What term refers to the annual diagnosis rate or the number of
new cases of a particular disease diagnosed each year?
Answer: Incidence
◉ What are some uses of epidemiology?
Answer: collecting data to describe normal biological processes,
understanding the natural history of a disease process, measuring
, the distribution of a disease in a given population, identifying
determinants of a disease, testing hypothesis for prevention and
control of a disease through studies, and planning evaluating health
care services
◉ What term describes an unexpectedly large number of cases of
disease in a particular population at a particular place and time?
Answer: epidemic
◉ What is an example of an epidemic?
Answer: meningitis outbreak among senior high school students
during fall quarter 2010
◉ What term describes a disease that occurs regularly in a
population as a matter of course?
Answer: Endemic
◉ What is an example of an endemic?
Answer: hay fever during spring
◉ What is the term that describes an outbreak of disease over a
wide geographical area; often worldwide?
Answer: Pandemic
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE WITH SOLVED
QUESTIONS
◉ What is the fundamentals of private dental practice?
Answer: Health history and examination (assessment), diagnosis,
treatment planning, treatment, payment, and evaluation
◉ What is the difference between the community oral health and
private practice oral health?
Answer: community assesses a whole community and private
practice assess an individual's needs
◉ What are the 4 government levels of community dental health?
Answer: International, Federal, State, and local
◉ What is a prime example of International community dental
health?
Answer: WHO- World Health Organization
◉ Who published Healthy People of 2010?
Answer: DHHS- Department of Health and Human Services
,◉ What level of governement coordinates programs for
underdeveloped nations and gathers epidemiological data for
comparison across nations?
Answer: The international
◉ What would be a good index to use for international populations
utilizing minimal equipment?
Answer: Community Periodontal Index of Treatment Needs (CPITN)
◉ What level of government acts on oral health problems of national
significance primarily within the jurisdiction of the Department of
Health and Human Services?
Answer: Federal
◉ What are some example of federal agencies involved with
community oral health issues?
Answer: CDC-Center of Disease Control and Prevention, Health
Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), and National
Institute of Health NIH)
◉ What level of government provides consultation services to local
health departments?
Answer: State
,◉ What level of government directly administers county and city
programs and initiates dental health legislative measures like
fluoridation?
Answer: Local
◉ What is the study of Health and Disease in populations?
Answer: Epidemiology
◉ How does Epidemiologic studies usually report finding?
Answer: in terms of prevalence or incidence of disease
◉ What term refers to the estimated population of people who are
managing a disease at any given time?
Answer: Prevalence
◉ What term refers to the annual diagnosis rate or the number of
new cases of a particular disease diagnosed each year?
Answer: Incidence
◉ What are some uses of epidemiology?
Answer: collecting data to describe normal biological processes,
understanding the natural history of a disease process, measuring
, the distribution of a disease in a given population, identifying
determinants of a disease, testing hypothesis for prevention and
control of a disease through studies, and planning evaluating health
care services
◉ What term describes an unexpectedly large number of cases of
disease in a particular population at a particular place and time?
Answer: epidemic
◉ What is an example of an epidemic?
Answer: meningitis outbreak among senior high school students
during fall quarter 2010
◉ What term describes a disease that occurs regularly in a
population as a matter of course?
Answer: Endemic
◉ What is an example of an endemic?
Answer: hay fever during spring
◉ What is the term that describes an outbreak of disease over a
wide geographical area; often worldwide?
Answer: Pandemic
