DASLE MN 2024/2025 Exam Questions and Answers | A+ Score Assured

DASLE MN 2024/2025 Exam Questions
and Answers | A+ Score Assured



When taking alginate impressions, having the patient swish with a mouth

rinse such as Listerine prior to impressing helps decrease all of the

following except:

a: drooling by the patient

B: microorganisms on the impression

C: gagging by the patient


D: bubbles in the material - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a: Drooling by the patient


You are seating your patient to take alginate impressions, what position will

you have them in?

A: upright

B: reclined

C: standing


D: supine - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a: Upright



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,Which of the following would not be an effective communication method?

A: ask the patient to use predetermined hand signals to communicate with

you

B: explain to the patient that the material may feel cold

C: Ask the patient to breath through their mouth

D: inform the patient that they can bring their head forward and off the

headrest once you have seated the impression - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔C: Ask the

patient to breath through their mouth

In order to best record the muscle attachments, frenums, and achieve a

complete peripheral roll, the operator will need to perform_________ by

gently massaging the patients lips and cheeks.

A: facial trimming

B: frenectomy

C: muscle trimming


D; muscle rolling - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔C: muscle trimming


A main advantage of polyvinyl siloxane is that it has high dimensional

stability and pouring can be delayed for up to 7-10 days without distorting.


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,True


False - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔TRUE


Polysulfide is an impression material where the disadvantages outweigh

the advantages. Some of the main disadvantages are the odor, bad taste, it

stains, and has a long setting time.

True


False - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔TRUE


An impression tray should extend _____ mm beyond the last tooth in the

arch.

A: 1-2

B: 2-3

C: 3-4


D: 4-5 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔B: 2-3


If an alginate impression remains in the open air, moisture will evaporate

from the material, causing it to shrink and distort. This condition is called:

A: expansion

B: imbibition

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, C: synersis


D: adaptation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔C: synersis


As a right handed operator, when seating the mandibular impression, you

want to be standing at the side of the patient, near 8-9 o'clock. When

seating the maxillary impression, you will want to be behind the patients

head, near 11-12 o'clock.

True


False - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔TRUE


When might the fabrication of a custom tray be necessary?

A: the stock trays do not fit the patients mouth properly

B: the patient is edentulous

C: the patient needs whitening trays

D: the patient needs a specific orthodontic appliance


E: all of the above - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔E: all of the above


The purpose for the perforations in the impression trays is:

A; to allow the impression material to flow out of the perforations B:

creating a mechanical lock between the impression and the tray

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