AAPD Board Exam Study Guide with complete solutions| Latest 2025/2026 Update.

AAPD Board Exam Study Guide
with complete solutions| Latest
2025/2026 Update.

Question:

AHA recommends that sugar in foods and drink be avoided in children
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under?
Answer:
2 year
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Question:
smear of toothpaste has how much fluoride and is used for what age?
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Answer:
.1 mg fluoride, under age 3
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Question:

pea sized amount of toothpaste should be used for what age and has
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how much fluoride?
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,Question:

less than twice daily toothbrushing during preschool years significant
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determinants of? i,-




Answer:

caries prevalence at age of five years
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Question:

Recommended professionally applied fluoride treatment for children at
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risk of ECC who are younger than 6 years is what fluoride varnish, how
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much fluoride? i,-




Answer:
five percent sodium fluoride varnish, 22,500 parts per million fluoride
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Question:

what percentage silver diamine fluoride?
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Answer:

38%




Question:

,which DFS (used to measure prevalence of ECC) component has increased
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for preschool children?
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Answer:

filled, more treatment is being provided
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Question:

ECC factors?
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Answer:

factors include susceptible teeth due to enamel hypoplasia, oral
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colonization with elevated levels of cariogenic bacteria (especially Mutans
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streptococci [MS]), and the metabolism of sugars by tooth-adherent
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bacteria to produce acid which, over time, demineralizes tooth structure.
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Question:
Microbial risk markers for ECC include...?
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Answer:
MS and Lactobacillus species
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*New polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques are revealing the
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complexity of the oral microbiome and other bacterial species may be
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associated. · ., Scardovia wiggsiae, Veillonella ssp.) and fungi (e.g., Candida
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albicans)

, Question:
MS transmission?
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Answer:

vertical transmission, horizontal transmission
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Question:
ECC is defined as?
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Answer:

"Presence of one or more (cavitated or non-cavitated), missing due to
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caries, or filled tooth surface in a child under the age of 6"
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Question:

S-ECC is defined as?
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Answer:

any sign of smooth surface caries in a child younger than three years of
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age. From ages 3-5, one or more cavitated, missing due to caries or filled
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smooth surfaces in maxillary anterior teeth, or decayed, missing filled
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score of greater than or equal to four (age 3), greater than or equal to five
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(Age 4) or greater than or equal to six (age 5)
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