Dental Hygiene Exam Questions and Answers Grade A+

Dental Hygiene Exam Questions and Answers Grade A+
Dental Hygiene Process of Care - Answer-Assessment
Diagnosis (prognosis)
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Documentation
public health dentist - Answer-Works on cause and prevention of common dental
disease.
objective symptoms - Answer-Symptoms that can be seen by anyone
subjective symptoms - Answer-symptoms that can be felt, such as itching, burning,
or pain
odontalgia - Answer-toothache
Etiology - Answer-cause of disease
acute - Answer-New, usually of rapid onset and of concern, opposite of chronic
exogenous - Answer-Produced outside the body
ex hypothermia caused by cold
Endogenous - Answer-Produced within the body
ex: tumors
degenerative - Answer-breaking down
Nosocomial - Answer-hospital acquired infection
Aerobic - Answer-bacteria that require oxygen to live and grow
faculative aerobe - Answer-bacteria that can live in oxygen but don't need oxygen
Anaerobic - Answer-bacteria that can live without oxygen

, facultative anaerobes - Answer-bacteria that do best without oxygen, but can live
with it
spore - Answer-A reproductive cell with a hard, protective coating
Endospore - Answer-A small, rounded, thick-walled, resting cell that forms inside a
bacterial cell
Viruses - Answer-tiny parasitic organisms that cause disease
Rickettsia - Answer-a small bacterium that lives in lice, fleas, ticks, and mites
Vector - Answer-carrier (of disease, for example lice, fleas, ticks)
protozoa - Answer-small animal parasites or organisms. Cause malaria, dysentery,
& encephalitis
Saprophytes (decomposers) - Answer-feed on dead or decaying organisms
Nematodes - Answer-a parasitic worm such as a roundworm or threadworm.
commensal - Answer-describes an organism that lives symbiotically with a host;
this host neither benefits nor suffers from the association
Blood borne pathogens - Answer-Disease-causing organisms transferred through
contact with blood or other body fluids
Port of entry for disease - Answer-Droplet infection, indirect infection, contact
infection, parenteral, carrier infection, vector-Bourne infection, food, soil or water
infection.
droplet infection (aerosol) - Answer-airborne infection discharged from mouth or
nose
Indirect Infection - Answer-infection caused by improper handling of materials or
contamination of items leading to infection
contact infection - Answer-infection that is passed directly through intimate
relationship- contact with saliva, blood, or mucous membranes