DSE CDCA COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔What analgesic can be safely given to someone w/kidney disease - ✔✔Tylenol
(acetaminophen) ONLY. NOT NSAIDS nor aspirin
✔✔Patients on dialysis. Where do you take their blood pressure? - ✔✔Not on the side
where the shunt was placed for dialysis
✔✔How do you prevent syncope - ✔✔Trendelenburg position
✔✔How do you treat syncope - ✔✔Trendelenburg position. If breathing present, crush
ammonia ampule under nose and admin oxygen. If no breathing, start BLS
✔✔Best position of a finish line on a short clinical crown - ✔✔Subgingival? Or At
gingival margin?
✔✔Child with fibrous dysplasia, what do you do next - ✔✔Some lesions stabilize. Some
lesions grow. Surgical removal when its an esthetic concern. For children, surgical
intervention should be delayed for as long as possible
✔✔Contraindication for patient w/hyperthyroid - ✔✔Epinephrine
✔✔Facial reduction for PFM crown - ✔✔1.5 mm
✔✔Can transillumination be used to identify cracks? - ✔✔yes
✔✔Can pocket depth be determined from xray? - ✔✔No
✔✔Patient with tenderness anterior to earlobe - ✔✔Inflammation of Stensons duct
✔✔A patient has diabetes. He forgot to take insulin but ate a good breakfast. If you
gave him sugar, what would happen - ✔✔Patient would get worse
✔✔After sc/rp, patient notices more spaces between teeth. Why? - ✔✔Decreased
swelling of gingival
✔✔x-ray with herring bone effect. Whats wrong? - ✔✔Film placed backwards
✔✔x-ray with lightning strike effect. what's wrong? - ✔✔static electricity when opening
the film
✔✔What film requires least amount of radiation - ✔✔E speed
, ✔✔How much epi can you give a patient with BP 160/110 - ✔✔None! Don't give tx.
Refer to physician
✔✔Type of pontic to replace a premolar - ✔✔Modified ridge lap pontic
✔✔Type of pontic with primary esthetic requirement? - ✔✔Ovate pontic
✔✔Patient with history of slow-growing enlargement of mandible for 10 years -
✔✔Hyperpituitarism
✔✔Patient w/history of weight gain, deepening voice, dry skin - ✔✔Hypothyroidism
✔✔Exopthalmos - ✔✔Hyperthyroidism
✔✔Treatment of addisons - ✔✔Corticosteroid replacement therapy
✔✔Recurrent ulcers that heal with scarring - ✔✔Major apthous ulcers
✔✔Treatment of major apthae - ✔✔Corticosteroids
✔✔Supernumerary teeth - ✔✔Gardners (clavicles present) or cleidocranial dysplasia
✔✔Tx of mucocele - ✔✔Surgical removal
✔✔Patient with terrible perio, when should immediate denture be constructed - ✔✔After
perio intervention
✔✔Why porcelain teeth should never appose natural dentition - ✔✔Attrition
✔✔Best teeth to oppose natural dentition - ✔✔Acrylic
✔✔Clinical picture of 14 y.o. with inflamed gingival - ✔✔Leukemia
✔✔Best way to communicate outcome with lab tech - ✔✔Diagnostic wax up
✔✔Ideal amount of undercut required for circumferential clasp - ✔✔.01 inch
✔✔Reason for gingivitis during pregnancy - ✔✔Pregnancy exaggerates gingival
response to plaque. Due to increase in estrogen and progesterone
✔✔Treatment of extra oral abscess which is non-odontogenic in origin. - ✔✔Hot
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SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔What analgesic can be safely given to someone w/kidney disease - ✔✔Tylenol
(acetaminophen) ONLY. NOT NSAIDS nor aspirin
✔✔Patients on dialysis. Where do you take their blood pressure? - ✔✔Not on the side
where the shunt was placed for dialysis
✔✔How do you prevent syncope - ✔✔Trendelenburg position
✔✔How do you treat syncope - ✔✔Trendelenburg position. If breathing present, crush
ammonia ampule under nose and admin oxygen. If no breathing, start BLS
✔✔Best position of a finish line on a short clinical crown - ✔✔Subgingival? Or At
gingival margin?
✔✔Child with fibrous dysplasia, what do you do next - ✔✔Some lesions stabilize. Some
lesions grow. Surgical removal when its an esthetic concern. For children, surgical
intervention should be delayed for as long as possible
✔✔Contraindication for patient w/hyperthyroid - ✔✔Epinephrine
✔✔Facial reduction for PFM crown - ✔✔1.5 mm
✔✔Can transillumination be used to identify cracks? - ✔✔yes
✔✔Can pocket depth be determined from xray? - ✔✔No
✔✔Patient with tenderness anterior to earlobe - ✔✔Inflammation of Stensons duct
✔✔A patient has diabetes. He forgot to take insulin but ate a good breakfast. If you
gave him sugar, what would happen - ✔✔Patient would get worse
✔✔After sc/rp, patient notices more spaces between teeth. Why? - ✔✔Decreased
swelling of gingival
✔✔x-ray with herring bone effect. Whats wrong? - ✔✔Film placed backwards
✔✔x-ray with lightning strike effect. what's wrong? - ✔✔static electricity when opening
the film
✔✔What film requires least amount of radiation - ✔✔E speed
, ✔✔How much epi can you give a patient with BP 160/110 - ✔✔None! Don't give tx.
Refer to physician
✔✔Type of pontic to replace a premolar - ✔✔Modified ridge lap pontic
✔✔Type of pontic with primary esthetic requirement? - ✔✔Ovate pontic
✔✔Patient with history of slow-growing enlargement of mandible for 10 years -
✔✔Hyperpituitarism
✔✔Patient w/history of weight gain, deepening voice, dry skin - ✔✔Hypothyroidism
✔✔Exopthalmos - ✔✔Hyperthyroidism
✔✔Treatment of addisons - ✔✔Corticosteroid replacement therapy
✔✔Recurrent ulcers that heal with scarring - ✔✔Major apthous ulcers
✔✔Treatment of major apthae - ✔✔Corticosteroids
✔✔Supernumerary teeth - ✔✔Gardners (clavicles present) or cleidocranial dysplasia
✔✔Tx of mucocele - ✔✔Surgical removal
✔✔Patient with terrible perio, when should immediate denture be constructed - ✔✔After
perio intervention
✔✔Why porcelain teeth should never appose natural dentition - ✔✔Attrition
✔✔Best teeth to oppose natural dentition - ✔✔Acrylic
✔✔Clinical picture of 14 y.o. with inflamed gingival - ✔✔Leukemia
✔✔Best way to communicate outcome with lab tech - ✔✔Diagnostic wax up
✔✔Ideal amount of undercut required for circumferential clasp - ✔✔.01 inch
✔✔Reason for gingivitis during pregnancy - ✔✔Pregnancy exaggerates gingival
response to plaque. Due to increase in estrogen and progesterone
✔✔Treatment of extra oral abscess which is non-odontogenic in origin. - ✔✔Hot
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