HOSA DENTAL EXAMINATION MANUAL 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔The procedure of fully informing a patient about the choices the patient has
regarding his/her dental care - ✔✔Informed Consent
✔✔Occurs when the patient refuses treatment after he/she has been fully educated
regarding the consequences of not receiving the treament - ✔✔Informed Refusal
✔✔Incorrect or negligent treatment by professional - ✔✔Malpractice
✔✔Failure to use a standard of care that a reasonable person would apply under
related situations - ✔✔Negligence
✔✔Allows an individual to transfer licensure with the same rights from one state to
another without having to retake licensure exams - ✔✔Reciprocity
✔✔Statements made at the time of an alleged negligent act that are admissible in court
as evidence - ✔✔Res Gestae
✔✔Res ipsa loquitur - ✔✔the act speaks for itself
✔✔Respondeat superior - ✔✔the master answers
✔✔Actions implemented to minimize legal rights to the dental practice - ✔✔Risk
Management
✔✔Intentional or unintentional act that causes harm - ✔✔Tort
✔✔A written doc signed by the patient that provides consent to receive treatment -
✔✔Written consent
✔✔Forehead - ✔✔Frontal
✔✔Top back of head - ✔✔Parietal
✔✔Side of head by eyes - ✔✔Temporal
✔✔Bottom back of head - ✔✔Occipital
✔✔Ear Area - ✔✔Mastoid
✔✔Face - ✔✔Facial
,✔✔Mouth - ✔✔Oral
✔✔Nose - ✔✔Nasal
✔✔Eyes - ✔✔Orbital
✔✔Chin - ✔✔Mental
✔✔Cheekbone - ✔✔Zygomatic
✔✔Cheek - ✔✔Buccal
✔✔The part of the mandible and the maxilla that contain tooth sockets - ✔✔Alveolar
process
✔✔to join together - ✔✔Articulate
✔✔Grinding of teeth - ✔✔Bruxism
✔✔Bone that is more spongy or porous than dense bone - ✔✔Cancellous bone
✔✔A crackling/grinding sound - ✔✔Crepitus
✔✔Openings in bone allowing for passage of nerve and blood vessels - ✔✔Foramina
✔✔A shallow depression within the temporal bone - ✔✔Glenoid fossa
✔✔The movable end of a muscle - ✔✔Insertion
✔✔The bone of the lower jaw - ✔✔Mandible
✔✔The principle muscle of mastication that closes the mouth - ✔✔Masseter
✔✔The act of chewing - ✔✔Mastication
✔✔Two bones that form the upper jaw - ✔✔Maxilla
✔✔A rounded prominence of bone located posterior to the maxillary molars -
✔✔Maxillary Tuberosity
✔✔Muscle of the chin that protrudes the lower lip and wrinkles the skin - ✔✔Mentalis
, ✔✔The fixed attachment of a muscle - ✔✔Origin
✔✔A stone in the salivary duct - ✔✔Sialolith
✔✔An immovable line of union between two bones - ✔✔Suture
✔✔The encapsulated synovial joint between the temporal bone of the skull and the
condyle of the mandible - ✔✔Temporomandibular joint
✔✔Dryness of the mouth caused by an abnormal reduction in salivary secretion -
✔✔Xerostomia
✔✔Pertaining to the cheekbone - ✔✔Zygomatic
✔✔Winged flare of a nostil - ✔✔Ala
✔✔The corners of the mouth - ✔✔Commissures
✔✔A long fold of tissue along the buccal mucosa next to where the teeth come together
- ✔✔Linea Alba
✔✔The roof of the mouth - ✔✔Palate
✔✔The passage for your air and food - ✔✔Pharynx
✔✔A vertical groove between the nose and the upper lip - ✔✔Philtrum
✔✔The prominence of fleshy tissue anterior to the ear opening - ✔✔Tragus
✔✔A fold of mucous membrane attached to the back of the soft palate - ✔✔Uvula
✔✔Transitional area between the skin of the face and the mucous membrane of the lip -
✔✔Vermillion border
✔✔The highest peak in the alveolar process - ✔✔Alveolar crest
✔✔The opening within the alveolar bone that houses the roots of the teeth - ✔✔Alveolar
socket
✔✔Enamel-forming cells - ✔✔Ameloblasts
✔✔The portion of the tooth that is covered with enamel - ✔✔Anatomical crown
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔The procedure of fully informing a patient about the choices the patient has
regarding his/her dental care - ✔✔Informed Consent
✔✔Occurs when the patient refuses treatment after he/she has been fully educated
regarding the consequences of not receiving the treament - ✔✔Informed Refusal
✔✔Incorrect or negligent treatment by professional - ✔✔Malpractice
✔✔Failure to use a standard of care that a reasonable person would apply under
related situations - ✔✔Negligence
✔✔Allows an individual to transfer licensure with the same rights from one state to
another without having to retake licensure exams - ✔✔Reciprocity
✔✔Statements made at the time of an alleged negligent act that are admissible in court
as evidence - ✔✔Res Gestae
✔✔Res ipsa loquitur - ✔✔the act speaks for itself
✔✔Respondeat superior - ✔✔the master answers
✔✔Actions implemented to minimize legal rights to the dental practice - ✔✔Risk
Management
✔✔Intentional or unintentional act that causes harm - ✔✔Tort
✔✔A written doc signed by the patient that provides consent to receive treatment -
✔✔Written consent
✔✔Forehead - ✔✔Frontal
✔✔Top back of head - ✔✔Parietal
✔✔Side of head by eyes - ✔✔Temporal
✔✔Bottom back of head - ✔✔Occipital
✔✔Ear Area - ✔✔Mastoid
✔✔Face - ✔✔Facial
,✔✔Mouth - ✔✔Oral
✔✔Nose - ✔✔Nasal
✔✔Eyes - ✔✔Orbital
✔✔Chin - ✔✔Mental
✔✔Cheekbone - ✔✔Zygomatic
✔✔Cheek - ✔✔Buccal
✔✔The part of the mandible and the maxilla that contain tooth sockets - ✔✔Alveolar
process
✔✔to join together - ✔✔Articulate
✔✔Grinding of teeth - ✔✔Bruxism
✔✔Bone that is more spongy or porous than dense bone - ✔✔Cancellous bone
✔✔A crackling/grinding sound - ✔✔Crepitus
✔✔Openings in bone allowing for passage of nerve and blood vessels - ✔✔Foramina
✔✔A shallow depression within the temporal bone - ✔✔Glenoid fossa
✔✔The movable end of a muscle - ✔✔Insertion
✔✔The bone of the lower jaw - ✔✔Mandible
✔✔The principle muscle of mastication that closes the mouth - ✔✔Masseter
✔✔The act of chewing - ✔✔Mastication
✔✔Two bones that form the upper jaw - ✔✔Maxilla
✔✔A rounded prominence of bone located posterior to the maxillary molars -
✔✔Maxillary Tuberosity
✔✔Muscle of the chin that protrudes the lower lip and wrinkles the skin - ✔✔Mentalis
, ✔✔The fixed attachment of a muscle - ✔✔Origin
✔✔A stone in the salivary duct - ✔✔Sialolith
✔✔An immovable line of union between two bones - ✔✔Suture
✔✔The encapsulated synovial joint between the temporal bone of the skull and the
condyle of the mandible - ✔✔Temporomandibular joint
✔✔Dryness of the mouth caused by an abnormal reduction in salivary secretion -
✔✔Xerostomia
✔✔Pertaining to the cheekbone - ✔✔Zygomatic
✔✔Winged flare of a nostil - ✔✔Ala
✔✔The corners of the mouth - ✔✔Commissures
✔✔A long fold of tissue along the buccal mucosa next to where the teeth come together
- ✔✔Linea Alba
✔✔The roof of the mouth - ✔✔Palate
✔✔The passage for your air and food - ✔✔Pharynx
✔✔A vertical groove between the nose and the upper lip - ✔✔Philtrum
✔✔The prominence of fleshy tissue anterior to the ear opening - ✔✔Tragus
✔✔A fold of mucous membrane attached to the back of the soft palate - ✔✔Uvula
✔✔Transitional area between the skin of the face and the mucous membrane of the lip -
✔✔Vermillion border
✔✔The highest peak in the alveolar process - ✔✔Alveolar crest
✔✔The opening within the alveolar bone that houses the roots of the teeth - ✔✔Alveolar
socket
✔✔Enamel-forming cells - ✔✔Ameloblasts
✔✔The portion of the tooth that is covered with enamel - ✔✔Anatomical crown
