Dental Hygiene Prometric Exam/ Quizzes with
Certified Solutions.
What is an oral side effect of Prozac? - Answer: xerostomia
How do steroids effect wound healing? - Answer: causes delayed wound healing
What should be done with a patient with a previous history of high blood pressure
and comes in for their appointment with reading of 160/116? - Answer: refer the
patient to their physician immediately
Premedication regimine - Answer: 2g Amoxicillin
600 mg Clindamycin
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,Patient comes in for appointment who needs premed, and they took 300 mg 1
hour prior to their appointment. What would you do? - Answer: administer
another 300 mg and wait 1 hr prior to treatment (because their clindamycin
premed is 600mg 1hr prior to treatment)
What is a PAN used for? - Answer: - look at location of 3rd molars
- impactions
- pathology
- NOT FOR BONE LOSS
Items containing fluoride? - Answer: - tea
- pork
- fish
What type of water does not contain fluoride? - Answer: well water
Know the papilla of the tongue - Answer: - filiform (most numerous, very small)
- fungiform (mushroom shape, contain taste buds)
- circumvallate (larger mushroom shaped, contain taste buds, on anterior side of
sulcus terminalis)
- foliate (leaf shaped, lateral border of tongue)
What is hairy tongue caused by? - Answer: elongation of the filiform papillae
Delayed eruption may be caused by - Answer: delayed exfoliation
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, Identify mandibular canal radiographically - Answer: radiolucent, long dark area
outlined with dense cortical bone, located above or parallel to the inferior border
of the mandible
What is thickened lamina dura caused by? is this appearance normal? - Answer: -
caused by trauma
- not normal
Know film errors - Answer: - elongation: too little vertical angulation
- foreshortening: too much vertical angulation
- cone cut: PID not aligned with censor
- overlap: incorrect horizontal angulation
Identify median rhomboid glossitis - Answer: rhombus shaped, central denuded
area of the tongue with red appearance
What is the treatment for black hair tongue? - Answer: brush it
What is a vitality test used for? - Answer: testing to see if the pulp is vital or not
(applying cold air on cotton swap and pushing it against the tooth; if the pulp is
vital it hurts, if its necrotic you would not feel anything)
What are Hutchinson's incisors caused by? - Answer: Syphillis, NOT biting on
bobby pins
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Certified Solutions.
What is an oral side effect of Prozac? - Answer: xerostomia
How do steroids effect wound healing? - Answer: causes delayed wound healing
What should be done with a patient with a previous history of high blood pressure
and comes in for their appointment with reading of 160/116? - Answer: refer the
patient to their physician immediately
Premedication regimine - Answer: 2g Amoxicillin
600 mg Clindamycin
Page 1 of 18
,Patient comes in for appointment who needs premed, and they took 300 mg 1
hour prior to their appointment. What would you do? - Answer: administer
another 300 mg and wait 1 hr prior to treatment (because their clindamycin
premed is 600mg 1hr prior to treatment)
What is a PAN used for? - Answer: - look at location of 3rd molars
- impactions
- pathology
- NOT FOR BONE LOSS
Items containing fluoride? - Answer: - tea
- pork
- fish
What type of water does not contain fluoride? - Answer: well water
Know the papilla of the tongue - Answer: - filiform (most numerous, very small)
- fungiform (mushroom shape, contain taste buds)
- circumvallate (larger mushroom shaped, contain taste buds, on anterior side of
sulcus terminalis)
- foliate (leaf shaped, lateral border of tongue)
What is hairy tongue caused by? - Answer: elongation of the filiform papillae
Delayed eruption may be caused by - Answer: delayed exfoliation
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, Identify mandibular canal radiographically - Answer: radiolucent, long dark area
outlined with dense cortical bone, located above or parallel to the inferior border
of the mandible
What is thickened lamina dura caused by? is this appearance normal? - Answer: -
caused by trauma
- not normal
Know film errors - Answer: - elongation: too little vertical angulation
- foreshortening: too much vertical angulation
- cone cut: PID not aligned with censor
- overlap: incorrect horizontal angulation
Identify median rhomboid glossitis - Answer: rhombus shaped, central denuded
area of the tongue with red appearance
What is the treatment for black hair tongue? - Answer: brush it
What is a vitality test used for? - Answer: testing to see if the pulp is vital or not
(applying cold air on cotton swap and pushing it against the tooth; if the pulp is
vital it hurts, if its necrotic you would not feel anything)
What are Hutchinson's incisors caused by? - Answer: Syphillis, NOT biting on
bobby pins
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