AAPD Oral Board Exam with Accurate
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Dental Home - ✔✔an ongoing relationship between the dentist and the patient, including all
aspects of oral health care delivered in a comprehensive, continuously accessible, coordinated,
and family-centered way
What is the most cost effective way to provide dental care? - ✔✔Dental home
What is the most common infectious disease among U.S. children? - ✔✔Dental caries,
particularly among poor, non-white children
When should a dental home be established? - ✔✔within 6 months of first tooth eruption and
No later than 12 months
What is dental neglect - ✔✔WILLFUL failure of parent or guardian to seek and follow through
with treatment necessary to ensure a level of oral heath essential for adequate function and
freedom from pain and infection.
Dental disability - ✔✔orofacial pain, infection, or pathological condition and/or lack of
functional dentition affect nutritional intake, growth and development, or participation in life
activities.
Medically-necessary care - ✔✔Reasonable and essential diagnostic, preventive, and treatment
services (including supplies, appliances, and devices) and follow-up care as determined by
qualified health care providers in treating any condition, disease, injury, or congenital or
developmental malformation to promote optimal health, growth, and development. MNC
includes all supportive health care services that, in the judgment of the attending dentist, are
necessary for the provision of optimal quality therapeutic and preventive oral care. These
services include, but are not limited to, sedation, general anesthesia, and utilization of surgical
facilities.
,MNC ____________ the probability of good health and well-being and ________________ the
likelihood of an unfavorable outcome. - ✔✔increases, decreases
Perinatal - ✔✔20th week of gestation to 4 weeks post-partum
Women are more or less susceptible to oral disease? Why? - ✔✔More susceptible, due to
endocrinological fluctuations during pregnancy.
Poor oral health is associated with what birth problems? - ✔✔Low birthwaeight, growth
restriction, preterm delivery, preclampsia, early pregnancy loss, and intrauterine fetal demise.
Use of _______ ______ and avoiding tobacco and alcohol is protective for oral facial clefts? -
✔✔Folic acid
Pillow under the ______ hip maintains the uterus off the vena cava - ✔✔right
What analgesics should be avoided during pregnancy? - ✔✔Ibuprofen and Naproxen, during 1st
and 3rd trimester.
Can opiods be used during pregnancy? - ✔✔yes just minimum effectvie dose as they do cross
the placenta
What antibiotics should be avoided during pregnancy? - ✔✔Erythromycin, tetracycline,
fluoroquinolones.
Infants born via C-section are colonized by S. Mutans _________________ compared to vaginal
births - ✔✔Earlier
,Teenage pregnancy (11-15) causes the following: - ✔✔Pregnancy-induced hypertension (causes
increased bleeding during procedures), anemia, sexually transmissble diseases, and premature
delivery
Mild hypertension - ✔✔Equal to or greater than 140/90
Severe hypertension - ✔✔Greater than or equal to 160/110
Acute onset, severe hypertension that persists for 15 minutes or more = - ✔✔Emergency.
Physician should be notified immediately.
Maternal levels of vitamin ____ may affect primary tooth development - ✔✔D
Approximately ______ percent of pregnant participants reported persistent xerostomia -
✔✔Xerostomia
There is an correlation between periodontal disease in prengnant women and _____________
diabetes - ✔✔gestational
Poor plaque control added with hormone changes in pregnancy can lead to development of
what pathology? - ✔✔Pyogenic Granuloma
Due to increased risk of fetal hypoxia leading to inreased risk of pregnancy loss, what should be
avoided? - ✔✔Nitrious Oxide during the first trimester
Due to worries regaring merucury, what products should be avoided during pregnancy? -
✔✔Tooth whitening products that contain or generate hydrogen peroxide (releases inorganic
mercury from amalgam fillings)
, What should be done before brushing after vomitting? - ✔✔Rinse with a cup of water
containing a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate.
exclusive breastfeeding recommended until - ✔✔6-months to a year or more as mutually
desired by mother and infant.
What percentage of mothers have difficulty with breastfeeding? - ✔✔25-80%
What percentage of children have ankyloglossia? - ✔✔5%
Does nighttime breast feeding alone increase caries? - ✔✔No, but in conjunction with other
carbohydrates is highly cariogenic.
Breast feeding has been linked to: - ✔✔Decreased celiac, inflamatory bowel disease, obesity,
diabetes, cardiovascular disease, SIDS, postpartum depression, and child abuse.
_______ % of babies with ankyloglossia who are breastfed have no feeding trouble - ✔✔50
Delay introduction of pacifiers until - ✔✔1 month and cease by 3 years old.
Prolonged pacifier use may increase the incidence of (3 things) - ✔✔Otitis media
Oral candidia
GI infections
Motivational interviewing - ✔✔a counseling technique that provides people with an
opportunity to talk about and resolve their feelings so that they can move forward with change
When use of smear or grain of rice - ✔✔Starting at 1 month of age until able to expectorate.
Answers
Dental Home - ✔✔an ongoing relationship between the dentist and the patient, including all
aspects of oral health care delivered in a comprehensive, continuously accessible, coordinated,
and family-centered way
What is the most cost effective way to provide dental care? - ✔✔Dental home
What is the most common infectious disease among U.S. children? - ✔✔Dental caries,
particularly among poor, non-white children
When should a dental home be established? - ✔✔within 6 months of first tooth eruption and
No later than 12 months
What is dental neglect - ✔✔WILLFUL failure of parent or guardian to seek and follow through
with treatment necessary to ensure a level of oral heath essential for adequate function and
freedom from pain and infection.
Dental disability - ✔✔orofacial pain, infection, or pathological condition and/or lack of
functional dentition affect nutritional intake, growth and development, or participation in life
activities.
Medically-necessary care - ✔✔Reasonable and essential diagnostic, preventive, and treatment
services (including supplies, appliances, and devices) and follow-up care as determined by
qualified health care providers in treating any condition, disease, injury, or congenital or
developmental malformation to promote optimal health, growth, and development. MNC
includes all supportive health care services that, in the judgment of the attending dentist, are
necessary for the provision of optimal quality therapeutic and preventive oral care. These
services include, but are not limited to, sedation, general anesthesia, and utilization of surgical
facilities.
,MNC ____________ the probability of good health and well-being and ________________ the
likelihood of an unfavorable outcome. - ✔✔increases, decreases
Perinatal - ✔✔20th week of gestation to 4 weeks post-partum
Women are more or less susceptible to oral disease? Why? - ✔✔More susceptible, due to
endocrinological fluctuations during pregnancy.
Poor oral health is associated with what birth problems? - ✔✔Low birthwaeight, growth
restriction, preterm delivery, preclampsia, early pregnancy loss, and intrauterine fetal demise.
Use of _______ ______ and avoiding tobacco and alcohol is protective for oral facial clefts? -
✔✔Folic acid
Pillow under the ______ hip maintains the uterus off the vena cava - ✔✔right
What analgesics should be avoided during pregnancy? - ✔✔Ibuprofen and Naproxen, during 1st
and 3rd trimester.
Can opiods be used during pregnancy? - ✔✔yes just minimum effectvie dose as they do cross
the placenta
What antibiotics should be avoided during pregnancy? - ✔✔Erythromycin, tetracycline,
fluoroquinolones.
Infants born via C-section are colonized by S. Mutans _________________ compared to vaginal
births - ✔✔Earlier
,Teenage pregnancy (11-15) causes the following: - ✔✔Pregnancy-induced hypertension (causes
increased bleeding during procedures), anemia, sexually transmissble diseases, and premature
delivery
Mild hypertension - ✔✔Equal to or greater than 140/90
Severe hypertension - ✔✔Greater than or equal to 160/110
Acute onset, severe hypertension that persists for 15 minutes or more = - ✔✔Emergency.
Physician should be notified immediately.
Maternal levels of vitamin ____ may affect primary tooth development - ✔✔D
Approximately ______ percent of pregnant participants reported persistent xerostomia -
✔✔Xerostomia
There is an correlation between periodontal disease in prengnant women and _____________
diabetes - ✔✔gestational
Poor plaque control added with hormone changes in pregnancy can lead to development of
what pathology? - ✔✔Pyogenic Granuloma
Due to increased risk of fetal hypoxia leading to inreased risk of pregnancy loss, what should be
avoided? - ✔✔Nitrious Oxide during the first trimester
Due to worries regaring merucury, what products should be avoided during pregnancy? -
✔✔Tooth whitening products that contain or generate hydrogen peroxide (releases inorganic
mercury from amalgam fillings)
, What should be done before brushing after vomitting? - ✔✔Rinse with a cup of water
containing a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate.
exclusive breastfeeding recommended until - ✔✔6-months to a year or more as mutually
desired by mother and infant.
What percentage of mothers have difficulty with breastfeeding? - ✔✔25-80%
What percentage of children have ankyloglossia? - ✔✔5%
Does nighttime breast feeding alone increase caries? - ✔✔No, but in conjunction with other
carbohydrates is highly cariogenic.
Breast feeding has been linked to: - ✔✔Decreased celiac, inflamatory bowel disease, obesity,
diabetes, cardiovascular disease, SIDS, postpartum depression, and child abuse.
_______ % of babies with ankyloglossia who are breastfed have no feeding trouble - ✔✔50
Delay introduction of pacifiers until - ✔✔1 month and cease by 3 years old.
Prolonged pacifier use may increase the incidence of (3 things) - ✔✔Otitis media
Oral candidia
GI infections
Motivational interviewing - ✔✔a counseling technique that provides people with an
opportunity to talk about and resolve their feelings so that they can move forward with change
When use of smear or grain of rice - ✔✔Starting at 1 month of age until able to expectorate.
