INBDE Mock Study Guide Exam with
Actual Detailed Answers 2026-2027
Updated.
Kaplan 1-liners - Answer
Causative organism - yellow substance, tastes awful. filament, gram + rod - Answer
Actinomyces israeli
Actinomyces israeli associated with - Answer abnormal vaginal bleeding
Actinomyces killed by what drug - Answer Penicillin - inhibits cell wall synthesis
Tooth #28 slopes ___ - Answer Lingo-occlusal to bucco-occlusal slopes upward
If you prep #28 flat without sloping upward at the buccal cusp you will - Answer Pulp out
Painful blister, fiancee has it. Virus characteristics? - Answer HSV - enveloped, dsDNA, linear
HSV lives in the - Answer trigeminal ganglia
Treat HSV with - Answer Val(acyclovir)
Someone with carpal tunnel should be referred to a - Answer Occupational therapist
Clinical presentation of carpal tunnel - Answer Numbness in middle finger and thumb
Nerve affected in carpal tunnel? - Answer Median n
Test to confirm carpal tunnel - Answer Nerve conduction velocity test
What wouldn't help carpal tunnel? NSAID, steroid, PT, forearm splint - Answer Forearm splint
wouldn't, not a forearm problem
Why SDF bad - Answer Unsightly stain, don't use on anteriors
, What isn't a concern with GI? - Answer Marginal seal. Concerns are galvanic shock, color value
high, sheer force weak
Vitamins involved in bone less in elderly - Answer Vitamin D (need it to absorb calcium, milk
fortified with vit D)
Contraindication for EXT in the chair? (most correct) - Answer High BP
Most common site metastatic carcinoma - Answer Posterior mandible
Pt has liver disease, which anesthetic use? - Answer Use esters (or articaine), not amides
Just know what mesioangular oritentation looks like - Answer when impacted third molar's
crown is aimed toward second molar (easiest to extract)
Pell and Gregory class 1A means: - Answer "this measurement is in regards to impacted third
molars
level (ABC): impaction depth// A- crown out of bone, B- crown halfway in bone still, C- fully
under bone - Answer
class (123): ramus relationship// 1- fully out of ramus, 2- half of crown covered by ramus, 3-
fully in ramus - Answer
This is the easiest tooth to extract (if vertical or mesioangular orientation)" - Answer
What makes teeth harder to ext? - Answer "Narrow PDL space (wide PDL easier).
Easier if large follicle, roots not well-formed, mesioangular impaction" - Answer
What is not anesthetized during IA? - Answer Mylohyoid is not. Incisive, IA, lingual, and mental
are
Lead foil does not - Answer Provide means of moisture protection. It does give quality
assurance, shields backscatter radiation, and reduces patient exposure
Actual Detailed Answers 2026-2027
Updated.
Kaplan 1-liners - Answer
Causative organism - yellow substance, tastes awful. filament, gram + rod - Answer
Actinomyces israeli
Actinomyces israeli associated with - Answer abnormal vaginal bleeding
Actinomyces killed by what drug - Answer Penicillin - inhibits cell wall synthesis
Tooth #28 slopes ___ - Answer Lingo-occlusal to bucco-occlusal slopes upward
If you prep #28 flat without sloping upward at the buccal cusp you will - Answer Pulp out
Painful blister, fiancee has it. Virus characteristics? - Answer HSV - enveloped, dsDNA, linear
HSV lives in the - Answer trigeminal ganglia
Treat HSV with - Answer Val(acyclovir)
Someone with carpal tunnel should be referred to a - Answer Occupational therapist
Clinical presentation of carpal tunnel - Answer Numbness in middle finger and thumb
Nerve affected in carpal tunnel? - Answer Median n
Test to confirm carpal tunnel - Answer Nerve conduction velocity test
What wouldn't help carpal tunnel? NSAID, steroid, PT, forearm splint - Answer Forearm splint
wouldn't, not a forearm problem
Why SDF bad - Answer Unsightly stain, don't use on anteriors
, What isn't a concern with GI? - Answer Marginal seal. Concerns are galvanic shock, color value
high, sheer force weak
Vitamins involved in bone less in elderly - Answer Vitamin D (need it to absorb calcium, milk
fortified with vit D)
Contraindication for EXT in the chair? (most correct) - Answer High BP
Most common site metastatic carcinoma - Answer Posterior mandible
Pt has liver disease, which anesthetic use? - Answer Use esters (or articaine), not amides
Just know what mesioangular oritentation looks like - Answer when impacted third molar's
crown is aimed toward second molar (easiest to extract)
Pell and Gregory class 1A means: - Answer "this measurement is in regards to impacted third
molars
level (ABC): impaction depth// A- crown out of bone, B- crown halfway in bone still, C- fully
under bone - Answer
class (123): ramus relationship// 1- fully out of ramus, 2- half of crown covered by ramus, 3-
fully in ramus - Answer
This is the easiest tooth to extract (if vertical or mesioangular orientation)" - Answer
What makes teeth harder to ext? - Answer "Narrow PDL space (wide PDL easier).
Easier if large follicle, roots not well-formed, mesioangular impaction" - Answer
What is not anesthetized during IA? - Answer Mylohyoid is not. Incisive, IA, lingual, and mental
are
Lead foil does not - Answer Provide means of moisture protection. It does give quality
assurance, shields backscatter radiation, and reduces patient exposure
