DSE CDCA PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔Treatment of mesiodens - ✔✔Surgical removal and ortho consult
✔✔Why might a patient be taking lovastatin an vasotec? - ✔✔Lovastatin is cholesterol
lowering
Vasotech/enalapril is ACE inhibitor
✔✔Vasotec is antihypertensive - ✔✔
✔✔Patient faints and is unconscious in chair. What do you do? - ✔✔Ensure open
airway
✔✔What radiograph to visualize sinus - ✔✔Waters view
✔✔Purpose of try in for immediate dentures - ✔✔Verify occlusal relationship. Esthetics,
✔✔When is reline of immediate denture performed by laboratory - ✔✔6 months and 10
months
✔✔When is alternate cast technique done - ✔✔After processing denture framework
✔✔Advantage of immediate denture - ✔✔esthetics
✔✔Should treatment be delayed in uncontrolled diabetic - ✔✔Of course!
✔✔Identify retentive and bracing arm - ✔✔
✔✔What causes loss of lamina dura - ✔✔Hyperpituitarism, hyperparathyroidism,
osteomalacia, pagets, fibrous dysplasia
✔✔Hyperemia of tooth - ✔✔Reddish dentin. Tooth appears dark
✔✔Test for heparin vs warfarin - ✔✔Heparin: PTT
✔✔Warfarin: PT and INR - ✔✔
✔✔What antibiotic can cause red spots on the arm - ✔✔Penicillin
✔✔Repeatedly adjusting clasps on RPD will cause clasp breakage due to -
✔✔Increased metal fatigue OR increased modulus of elasticity
, ✔✔Syncope vs anaphlylaxis - ✔✔Syncope: loss of consciousness due to decreased
oxygen flow
✔✔Anaphylaxis: allergic reaction causing closure of airways - ✔✔
✔✔The lab tech surveys which cast - ✔✔Master cast
✔✔Distobuccal cusp of mand molar occludes with - ✔✔Central fossa
✔✔Correction of recession on canine - ✔✔Lateral reposition flap/sliding flap
✔✔Patient on long term tetracycline therapy. Returns complaining of burning tongue.
Smear results are yeast and fungi. Whats treatment - ✔✔Clotrimazole
✔✔Identify anemia based on lab values - ✔✔Hb less than 12.5
✔✔Symptoms of hyperpituitarism - ✔✔Excess hormones (gigantism, acromegaly, etc)
✔✔Symptoms of MI - ✔✔Burning chest, numb arm, pain in jaw (NOT pounding heart)
✔✔Treatment of bells palsy - ✔✔Histamine and vasodilators may shorten duration. As
well as systemic corticosteroids and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Surgical
decompression. Topical ocular antibiotics and artificial tears to prevent corneal
ulceration. Recovery in 6 months usually
✔✔Pregnant women is allergic to penicillin. What do you premedicate her with? -
✔✔Erythromycin
✔✔HIV patient with purple red lesion on ventral tongue - ✔✔Kaposi
✔✔Treatment of dry socket - ✔✔Eugenol impregnanted pellet. Do NOT curette
✔✔Tx of oroantral fistula - ✔✔Buccal slide flap
✔✔Which is not an etchant or conditioner - ✔✔BIS GMA is NOT (yes to citric, maleic,
phosphoric acid_
✔✔Stopped at page 14 of journal document - ✔✔08
✔✔Fusion vs gemination - ✔✔Fusion: two buds. Germination- one root
✔✔Expired or aged film will appear - ✔✔Too light
2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔Treatment of mesiodens - ✔✔Surgical removal and ortho consult
✔✔Why might a patient be taking lovastatin an vasotec? - ✔✔Lovastatin is cholesterol
lowering
Vasotech/enalapril is ACE inhibitor
✔✔Vasotec is antihypertensive - ✔✔
✔✔Patient faints and is unconscious in chair. What do you do? - ✔✔Ensure open
airway
✔✔What radiograph to visualize sinus - ✔✔Waters view
✔✔Purpose of try in for immediate dentures - ✔✔Verify occlusal relationship. Esthetics,
✔✔When is reline of immediate denture performed by laboratory - ✔✔6 months and 10
months
✔✔When is alternate cast technique done - ✔✔After processing denture framework
✔✔Advantage of immediate denture - ✔✔esthetics
✔✔Should treatment be delayed in uncontrolled diabetic - ✔✔Of course!
✔✔Identify retentive and bracing arm - ✔✔
✔✔What causes loss of lamina dura - ✔✔Hyperpituitarism, hyperparathyroidism,
osteomalacia, pagets, fibrous dysplasia
✔✔Hyperemia of tooth - ✔✔Reddish dentin. Tooth appears dark
✔✔Test for heparin vs warfarin - ✔✔Heparin: PTT
✔✔Warfarin: PT and INR - ✔✔
✔✔What antibiotic can cause red spots on the arm - ✔✔Penicillin
✔✔Repeatedly adjusting clasps on RPD will cause clasp breakage due to -
✔✔Increased metal fatigue OR increased modulus of elasticity
, ✔✔Syncope vs anaphlylaxis - ✔✔Syncope: loss of consciousness due to decreased
oxygen flow
✔✔Anaphylaxis: allergic reaction causing closure of airways - ✔✔
✔✔The lab tech surveys which cast - ✔✔Master cast
✔✔Distobuccal cusp of mand molar occludes with - ✔✔Central fossa
✔✔Correction of recession on canine - ✔✔Lateral reposition flap/sliding flap
✔✔Patient on long term tetracycline therapy. Returns complaining of burning tongue.
Smear results are yeast and fungi. Whats treatment - ✔✔Clotrimazole
✔✔Identify anemia based on lab values - ✔✔Hb less than 12.5
✔✔Symptoms of hyperpituitarism - ✔✔Excess hormones (gigantism, acromegaly, etc)
✔✔Symptoms of MI - ✔✔Burning chest, numb arm, pain in jaw (NOT pounding heart)
✔✔Treatment of bells palsy - ✔✔Histamine and vasodilators may shorten duration. As
well as systemic corticosteroids and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Surgical
decompression. Topical ocular antibiotics and artificial tears to prevent corneal
ulceration. Recovery in 6 months usually
✔✔Pregnant women is allergic to penicillin. What do you premedicate her with? -
✔✔Erythromycin
✔✔HIV patient with purple red lesion on ventral tongue - ✔✔Kaposi
✔✔Treatment of dry socket - ✔✔Eugenol impregnanted pellet. Do NOT curette
✔✔Tx of oroantral fistula - ✔✔Buccal slide flap
✔✔Which is not an etchant or conditioner - ✔✔BIS GMA is NOT (yes to citric, maleic,
phosphoric acid_
✔✔Stopped at page 14 of journal document - ✔✔08
✔✔Fusion vs gemination - ✔✔Fusion: two buds. Germination- one root
✔✔Expired or aged film will appear - ✔✔Too light
