Chapter 1 Introduction To Primary Preventive
Dentistry EXAM WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
AND SOLUTIONS 2025
1. What is the mission of dental care?:ANS Focuses on the ability to help
individuals achieve and maintain maximum oral health throughout their lives.
2. How do we know that dental care is helping?: ANS It is highlighted by the
dramatic reduction in tooth loss among adults in the united states.
3. The progress in dental care is has been attributed mainly to what?: ANS
The prevention of disease by using fluoride, the introduction of dental hygienists to
the workforce, and the subsequent acceptance and practice of primary preventive
care.
4. In dental health, lack of preventive dental health care can lead to what?:
ANS The further progression of disease and increased numbers of restorations,
extractions, surgeries, and dentures.
5. Who is Dr. Alfred C. Fones?: ANS The founder of dental hygiene, and
preventive dentistry. He stated that hundreds of million dollars is spent to restore
the sick to health, but only a small portion of that money was spent to maintain
health of well people even though its known that illness is preventable.
6. In the first college textbook written by Dr. Fones about preventive dentistry,
Fones states that the mouth is the window where the body displays physical
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, wares. Is this still true today?: ANS Yes, there is a wealth of information that
can be derived by examining the oral tissue.
7. Do most dental insurance companies cover preventive dentistry care?: ANS
Yes, they routinely cover preventive dentistry because of long term benefit and
cost effectiveness
8. What is a method that some communities do to prevent oral disease?: ANS
They add fluoride to their water
9. What do many school systems do to help prevent dental disease?: ANS
They offer their students dental sealants through dental healthcare providers
10. Did other people before fones study and practice preventive dental mea-
sures?: Yes, It was Fones though that actually initiated the practice of dental
hygiene, which began the prevention of dental care that is witnessed today.
11. Were people at the time skeptic about dental hygiene?: ANS Yes, Fones
stated a decade after dental hygiene began that it was no longer a theory that the
services of dental hygienists improved dental and overall health in the community
and that those who were initially skeptical were finding it difficult to suggest any
other means by which similar positive results can be accomplished for the
community.
12. What were the topics covered in the first book on preventive dentistry
written by Fones?: ANS The Normal Histology of Dental Tissues, The Alveolar
Process, The Enamel and Saliva, Normal Occlusion, Brief Pathology of the Dental
Tissues, Dental Caries: Immunity and Susceptibility, Dietetic: Elements of the
Human Body, The Unnatural Dietary Habits of Civilized Nations, Modern Methods of
Preparing and
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Dentistry EXAM WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
AND SOLUTIONS 2025
1. What is the mission of dental care?:ANS Focuses on the ability to help
individuals achieve and maintain maximum oral health throughout their lives.
2. How do we know that dental care is helping?: ANS It is highlighted by the
dramatic reduction in tooth loss among adults in the united states.
3. The progress in dental care is has been attributed mainly to what?: ANS
The prevention of disease by using fluoride, the introduction of dental hygienists to
the workforce, and the subsequent acceptance and practice of primary preventive
care.
4. In dental health, lack of preventive dental health care can lead to what?:
ANS The further progression of disease and increased numbers of restorations,
extractions, surgeries, and dentures.
5. Who is Dr. Alfred C. Fones?: ANS The founder of dental hygiene, and
preventive dentistry. He stated that hundreds of million dollars is spent to restore
the sick to health, but only a small portion of that money was spent to maintain
health of well people even though its known that illness is preventable.
6. In the first college textbook written by Dr. Fones about preventive dentistry,
Fones states that the mouth is the window where the body displays physical
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, wares. Is this still true today?: ANS Yes, there is a wealth of information that
can be derived by examining the oral tissue.
7. Do most dental insurance companies cover preventive dentistry care?: ANS
Yes, they routinely cover preventive dentistry because of long term benefit and
cost effectiveness
8. What is a method that some communities do to prevent oral disease?: ANS
They add fluoride to their water
9. What do many school systems do to help prevent dental disease?: ANS
They offer their students dental sealants through dental healthcare providers
10. Did other people before fones study and practice preventive dental mea-
sures?: Yes, It was Fones though that actually initiated the practice of dental
hygiene, which began the prevention of dental care that is witnessed today.
11. Were people at the time skeptic about dental hygiene?: ANS Yes, Fones
stated a decade after dental hygiene began that it was no longer a theory that the
services of dental hygienists improved dental and overall health in the community
and that those who were initially skeptical were finding it difficult to suggest any
other means by which similar positive results can be accomplished for the
community.
12. What were the topics covered in the first book on preventive dentistry
written by Fones?: ANS The Normal Histology of Dental Tissues, The Alveolar
Process, The Enamel and Saliva, Normal Occlusion, Brief Pathology of the Dental
Tissues, Dental Caries: Immunity and Susceptibility, Dietetic: Elements of the
Human Body, The Unnatural Dietary Habits of Civilized Nations, Modern Methods of
Preparing and
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