Chairside Dental Assisting Unit 2 Questions and Answers 100% Pass

Chairside Dental Assisting Unit 2 Questions and Answers 100% Pass Periodontal Charting - Correct Answer ️️ -ensures where patients gums/tissues is Define: marginal gingiva, attached gingiva, and alveolar mucosa - Correct Answer ️️ - Gingival margin: the area around neck; collar around mouth: where you floss. Around necks of teeth where enamel meets cementum its marginal gingiva(curved) Attached gingiva: directly attached to bone when healthy. Lining of cheek and lips is alevolar mucosa: free not attached to bone. Peritnized tissue is tough What happens to marginal gingiva when you have periodontal disease? - Correct Answer ️️ -When you have periodontal disease: the tissue resedes. Margin is straight not curved What is the process of periodontal probing? - Correct Answer ️️ -Insert at distil line angle. Parallel to line angle of tooth. Walk 1-2mm distil until contact. Walking stroke 1-2 mm to mesial contact Record 6 numbers per tooth. 3 on buckle/facial and 3 on lingual distal line then to mesial for every tooth. PSR: spot probing Periodontal Chart information: - Correct Answer ️️ -Each probing box Box has 3 section: distil, facil, mesial readings. Red/blue pen. Blue for 1-3 readings. Red readings 4 or higher. Bleeding points are writen with red. With dot or star above or too right of reading. If bleeding you star that or dot that number. Recession: tissue moving away from margin Mast. Mucosa: free lining in gingiva Farcation involvement (how many roots): If so much bone lose in recession in map: roots are visible : farcation (bifarcasion for mandibular an trifarcation for maxillary) can take probe and go through Can put farcation invovlement 1. maxillary molars have 3 and premolars have 2. blocked out if no farcation (single rooted tooth) Maxillary molars have 3 roots and mandiublar have 2 roots Periodontal probes - Correct Answer ️️ -used to locate and measure the depth of periodontal pockets. tips can be color coded to make the measurements easier to read. tapered to fit into the gingival sulcus/has a blunt or rounded tip. Six measurements are taken and recorded for each tooth. available in many designs in mm readings, each line and color indicates 2mm normal is 1-3mm 4mm and above consider gingivitis in beginning of periodontal diseases keep an eye on it. Distal away from midline, medial towards midline Recording the Dental Examination shorthand - Correct Answer ️️ -"shorthand" describing the dentists findings existing conditions- GREEN color coding or BLACK restorations present in mouth, missing teeth, crowns (completed by another dentist) treatment plan work- RED color coding work needing to be done completed work by present dentist-BLUE Facial surface - Correct Answer ️️ -Cheeks and lips area buccal (posterior) labial (anterior) Lingual surface - Correct Answer ️️ -surface touching tongu