MN DENTAL JURISPRUDENCE EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+

MN DENTAL JURISPRUDENCE EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔T/F -- DH or LDA shall NOT take impressions and bite registrations for the FINAL
construction of fixed and removable prostheses. - ✔✔True

✔✔*Utilizing rotary instruments for the removal of bond material from teeth - ✔✔DH -
indirect
LDA - indirect

✔✔Performing any or all restorative procedures limited to placing, contouring, &
adjusting amalgam, glass ionomers, and Class I and V supra composite restorations -
✔✔DH - indirect
LDA - indirect

✔✔*managing and removing IV lines - ✔✔DH - indirect
LDA - indirect

✔✔*placing an IV line - ✔✔DH - direct
LDA - direct

✔✔administering any medications or agents - ✔✔Personal DH and RDA

✔✔*Perform preliminary charting including assessments and existing restoration,
determine the perio status, and formulate the DH tx plan in coordination with DDS -
✔✔DH - general

✔✔*make referrals in consultation with DDS - ✔✔DH - general

✔✔*complete prophy with scaling, root planing, and polishing restorations - ✔✔DH -
general

✔✔dietary and nutritional counseling - ✔✔DH - general

✔✔*replacement, cementation and adjustment of INTACT temporary restorations -
✔✔DH - general
LDA - general

✔✔*remove overhangs - ✔✔DH - general

✔✔Complete preliminary charting of oral cavity and surrounding structures w/ exception
of perio probing and assessment of the perio structure - ✔✔LDA - general

of course DH can do this too, with probing

,✔✔take photographs intra or extra orally - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - general

✔✔take vital signs - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - general

✔✔place temporary fillings - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - general

✔✔*cut arch wires, remove loose bands or brackets - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - general

✔✔*take X-rays - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - general

✔✔*take impressions for casts and bite registrations - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - general

✔✔*place and remove ortho separators - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - general

✔✔*deliver vacuum-formed ortho retainers - ✔✔DH - general
DA - general

✔✔*etch enamel surfaces; apply and adjust sealants - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - indirect

✔✔*monitor a patient on nitrous oxide - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - indirect

✔✔*mechanical polishing clinical crowns (calculus must be removed by DDS or DH
before polishing) - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - indirect

✔✔*remove excess cement from inlays, crowns, bridges, ortho appliances with HAND
INSTRUMENTS - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - indirect

✔✔apply topical fluoride and bleaching agents prescribed by DDS - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - indirect

✔✔*can a LDA or DH place a cavity liner or endo filler - ✔✔no

, ✔✔place topical gel before injection - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - indirect

✔✔*place and remove rubber dam - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - indirect

✔✔*Preselect ortho bands - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - indirect

✔✔can a LDA give local anesthesia? - ✔✔No

✔✔*remove and replace ligature ties and arch wires - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - indirect

✔✔*remove sutures - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - indirect

✔✔Perform restorative procedures limited to: placing, contouring, and adjusting
amalgam
restorations and glass ionomers; adapting and cementing stainless steel crowns; and
placing,
contouring, and adjusting class I, II, & V supragingival composite restorations on
primary and permanent teeth. - ✔✔DH - Indirect
LDA - indirect

✔✔*place and remove periodontal packs - ✔✔DH - General
LDA - indirect

✔✔*dry root canals with paper points - ✔✔DH - general
LDA - indirect

✔✔*remove bond material with rotary instruments after removal of ortho - ✔✔DH -
direct
LDA - direct

✔✔*place and remove matrix bands - ✔✔DH - direct
LDA - direct

✔✔fabricate, cement, and adjust temporary crowns - ✔✔DH - direct
LDA - direct

✔✔*remove temporary RESTORATIONS with hand instruments only - ✔✔DH - direct
LDA - direct