Dental Hygiene questions with answers
Dental Hygiene Process of Care ✅✅Assessment
Diagnosis (prognosis)
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Documentation
public health dentist ✅✅Works on cause and prevention of common dental disease.
objective symptoms ✅✅Symptoms that can be seen by anyone
subjective symptoms ✅✅symptoms that can be felt, such as itching, burning, or pain
odontalgia ✅✅toothache
Etiology ✅✅cause of disease
acute ✅✅New, usually of rapid onset and of concern, opposite of chronic
exogenous ✅✅Produced outside the body
ex hypothermia caused by cold
Endogenous ✅✅Produced within the body
ex: tumors
degenerative ✅✅breaking down
Nosocomial ✅✅hospital acquired infection
Aerobic ✅✅bacteria that require oxygen to live and grow
faculative aerobe ✅✅bacteria that can live in oxygen but don't need oxygen
Anaerobic ✅✅bacteria that can live without oxygen
facultative anaerobes ✅✅bacteria that do best without oxygen, but can live with it
spore ✅✅A reproductive cell with a hard, protective coating
Endospore ✅✅A small, rounded, thick-walled, resting cell that forms inside a bacterial
cell
, Viruses ✅✅tiny parasitic organisms that cause disease
Rickettsia ✅✅a small bacterium that lives in lice, fleas, ticks, and mites
Vector ✅✅carrier (of disease, for example lice, fleas, ticks)
protozoa ✅✅small animal parasites or organisms. Cause malaria, dysentery, &
encephalitis
Saprophytes (decomposers) ✅✅feed on dead or decaying organisms
Nematodes ✅✅a parasitic worm such as a roundworm or threadworm.
commensal ✅✅describes an organism that lives symbiotically with a host; this host
neither benefits nor suffers from the association
Blood borne pathogens ✅✅Disease-causing organisms transferred through contact
with blood or other body fluids
Port of entry for disease ✅✅Droplet infection, indirect infection, contact infection,
parenteral, carrier infection, vector-Bourne infection, food, soil or water infection.
droplet infection (aerosol) ✅✅airborne infection discharged from mouth or nose
Indirect Infection ✅✅infection caused by improper handling of materials or
contamination of items leading to infection
contact infection ✅✅infection that is passed directly through intimate relationship-
contact with saliva, blood, or mucous membranes
Parenteral ✅✅"needle stick" refers to piercing of the skin or mucous membrane
carrier infection ✅✅exchange of disease by direct or indirect contact with an infected
human or animal
food, soil, or water infection ✅✅infection passed along by microbes present in these
media
chain of infection ✅✅infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission,
portal of entry, susceptible host
waste disposal ✅✅Universal Precaution: Proper disposal of saliva, blood, skin,
mucous membrane droplets.
Dental Hygiene Process of Care ✅✅Assessment
Diagnosis (prognosis)
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Documentation
public health dentist ✅✅Works on cause and prevention of common dental disease.
objective symptoms ✅✅Symptoms that can be seen by anyone
subjective symptoms ✅✅symptoms that can be felt, such as itching, burning, or pain
odontalgia ✅✅toothache
Etiology ✅✅cause of disease
acute ✅✅New, usually of rapid onset and of concern, opposite of chronic
exogenous ✅✅Produced outside the body
ex hypothermia caused by cold
Endogenous ✅✅Produced within the body
ex: tumors
degenerative ✅✅breaking down
Nosocomial ✅✅hospital acquired infection
Aerobic ✅✅bacteria that require oxygen to live and grow
faculative aerobe ✅✅bacteria that can live in oxygen but don't need oxygen
Anaerobic ✅✅bacteria that can live without oxygen
facultative anaerobes ✅✅bacteria that do best without oxygen, but can live with it
spore ✅✅A reproductive cell with a hard, protective coating
Endospore ✅✅A small, rounded, thick-walled, resting cell that forms inside a bacterial
cell
, Viruses ✅✅tiny parasitic organisms that cause disease
Rickettsia ✅✅a small bacterium that lives in lice, fleas, ticks, and mites
Vector ✅✅carrier (of disease, for example lice, fleas, ticks)
protozoa ✅✅small animal parasites or organisms. Cause malaria, dysentery, &
encephalitis
Saprophytes (decomposers) ✅✅feed on dead or decaying organisms
Nematodes ✅✅a parasitic worm such as a roundworm or threadworm.
commensal ✅✅describes an organism that lives symbiotically with a host; this host
neither benefits nor suffers from the association
Blood borne pathogens ✅✅Disease-causing organisms transferred through contact
with blood or other body fluids
Port of entry for disease ✅✅Droplet infection, indirect infection, contact infection,
parenteral, carrier infection, vector-Bourne infection, food, soil or water infection.
droplet infection (aerosol) ✅✅airborne infection discharged from mouth or nose
Indirect Infection ✅✅infection caused by improper handling of materials or
contamination of items leading to infection
contact infection ✅✅infection that is passed directly through intimate relationship-
contact with saliva, blood, or mucous membranes
Parenteral ✅✅"needle stick" refers to piercing of the skin or mucous membrane
carrier infection ✅✅exchange of disease by direct or indirect contact with an infected
human or animal
food, soil, or water infection ✅✅infection passed along by microbes present in these
media
chain of infection ✅✅infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission,
portal of entry, susceptible host
waste disposal ✅✅Universal Precaution: Proper disposal of saliva, blood, skin,
mucous membrane droplets.
