DENTAL HYGIENE PROMETRIC EXAM 2024 QUESTIONS WITH ALL
CORRECT ANSWERS
What is an oral side effect of Prozac? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅xerostomia
How do steroids effect wound healing? - CORRECT 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? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅refer the
patient to their physician immediately
Premedication regimine - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅2g Amoxicillin
600 mg Clindamycin
Patient comes in for appointment who needs premed, and they took 300 mg 1 hour prior to their
appointment. What would you do? - CORRECT 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? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- look at location of 3rd molars
- impactions
- pathology
- NOT FOR BONE LOSS
Items containing fluoride? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- tea
- pork
- fish
What type of water does not contain fluoride? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅well water
, Know the papilla of the tongue - CORRECT 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? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅elongation of the filiform
papillae
Delayed eruption may be caused by - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅delayed exfoliation
Identify mandibular canal radiographically - CORRECT 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? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅- caused by trauma
- not normal
Know film errors - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅rhombus shaped, central
denuded area of the tongue with red appearance
What is the treatment for black hair tongue? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅brush it
CORRECT ANSWERS
What is an oral side effect of Prozac? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅xerostomia
How do steroids effect wound healing? - CORRECT 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? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅refer the
patient to their physician immediately
Premedication regimine - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅2g Amoxicillin
600 mg Clindamycin
Patient comes in for appointment who needs premed, and they took 300 mg 1 hour prior to their
appointment. What would you do? - CORRECT 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? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- look at location of 3rd molars
- impactions
- pathology
- NOT FOR BONE LOSS
Items containing fluoride? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- tea
- pork
- fish
What type of water does not contain fluoride? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅well water
, Know the papilla of the tongue - CORRECT 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? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅elongation of the filiform
papillae
Delayed eruption may be caused by - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅delayed exfoliation
Identify mandibular canal radiographically - CORRECT 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? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅- caused by trauma
- not normal
Know film errors - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅rhombus shaped, central
denuded area of the tongue with red appearance
What is the treatment for black hair tongue? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅brush it
