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Dental Hygiene CSCE 2019-2020 Exam Questions and Answers, Exams of Health sciences

A comprehensive list of questions and answers for a dental hygiene exam, covering various topics such as anatomy, eruption sequences, dental diseases, and common dental procedures. It is a valuable resource for students preparing for their dental hygiene exams.

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Download Dental Hygiene CSCE 2019-2020 Exam Questions and Answers and more Exams Health sciences in PDF only on Docsity! Dental Hygiene CSCE 2019-2020 Exam Questions with Answers Latest Update What is 1. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Maxillary sinus. What is 2. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Pterygomaxillary fissure. What is 3. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Pterygoid plates. What is 4. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Hamas’s. What is 5. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Zygomatic arch. What is 6. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Articular eminence. What is 7. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Zygomatictemporary suture. What is 8. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Zygomatic process. What is 9. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers External auditory meatus. What is 10. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Mastoid process. What is 11. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Middle cranial fossa. What is 12. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Lateral border of the orbit. What is 13. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Infraorbital ridge. What is 14. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Infraorbital foramen. What is 15. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Infraorbital canal. What is 16. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Nasal fossa. What is 17. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Nasal septum. What is 18. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Anterior nasal spine. What is 19. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Inferior concha. What is 20. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Incisive foramen. What is 21. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Hard palate. What is 22. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Maxillary tuberosity. What is 23. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Condyle. What is 24. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Coronoid process. What is 25. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Sigmoid notch. What is 26. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Medial sigmoid depression. What is 27. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Styloid process. What is 28. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Cervical vertebrae. What is 29. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers External oblique ridge. What is 30. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Mandibular canal. What is 31. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers 31. Mandibular foramen. What is 32. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Lingula. What is 33. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Mental foramen. What is 34. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Submandibular gland fossa. What is 35. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Internal oblique ridge. What is 36. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Mental fossa. What is 37. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Mental ridge. What is 38. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Genial tubercles. What is 39. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Hyoid bone. What is 40. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Tongue. What is 41. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Soft palate. What is 42. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Uvula. What is 43. on the panoramic slide? - Correct Answers Posterior pharyngeal wall. What is penumbra? - Correct Answers A blurred edge, halo, or shadow around the tooth. What causes penumbra? - Correct Answers An overlarge focal point due to a long object-to-film distance. What procedure does not require patients to wear a thyroid collar? - Correct Answers Panoramic radiograph. What causes overlap on a radiograph? - Correct Answers Improper horizontal angulation. What causes foreshortening? - Correct Answers Excessive vertical angulation. Digital film is faster than BLANK film. - Correct Answers F speed. What is an abscess? - Correct Answers An accumulation of pus in a cavity formed by tissue. What is a cyst? - Correct Answers An abnormal cavity or sac lined with epithelium and surrounded by fibrous connective tissue. What can a panoramic radiograph best detect? - Correct Answers Third molars, cysts, and tumors. How does a periodontal abscess affect a tooth? - Correct Answers It affects the bone and fibers that hold the tooth in its socket leading to bone loss. How does a regular cyst affect a tooth? - Correct Answers It affects blood supply to the nerve at the root tip. If a tooth is not erupted or impacted what is its condition? - Correct Answers Delayed eruption. What is the mnemonic device for the maxillary eruption sequence and dates? - Correct Answers Mind (1st molar 6-7), Is (1st incisor 7-8), In (2nd incisor 8-9), Power (1st premolar 10-11), Penis (2nd premolar 10-12), Can't (Canine 11-12), Make (2nd molar 12-13), Mistakes (3rd molar 17-21). What is the mnemonic device for the mandibular eruption sequence and dates? - Correct Answers Money (1st molar 6-7), Is (1st incisor 6-7), In (2nd incisor 7-8), Control (Canine 9-10), People (1st premolar 10-12), Prioritize (2nd premolar 11-12), Money (2nd molar 11-13), Most (3rd molar 17-21). Review eruption date slides 79-92 - Correct Answers Reviewed. What does enamel do? - Correct Answers Makes up the protective outer surface of the crown of the tooth. What does dentin do and when can it be seen? - Correct Answers Makes up the majority of the inner surface of the tooth. It cannot normally been seen except on x-rays. Where the pulp and what is is its function? - Correct Answers It is in the center of the tooth and is in both the crown and the root of the tooth. It holds the nerves and blood vessels of the tooth. What are five main components of the pulp? - Correct Answers Fibroblasts, blood vessels, lymphatic channels, nerves, and connective tissue. What does cemented do? - Correct Answers Makes up the outer surface of the root. What is softer, enamel or cemented? - Correct Answers Cemented. What is the first part of the tooth to form? - Correct Answers The outer shell of the enamel. Mesenchyme gives rise to... - Correct Answers Cemented, dentin, and pulp. What forms the outer layer of all bones and most of the structure of long bones? - Correct Answers Compact bone. What are lacunae and what do they contain? - Correct Answers The small spaces between the lamellae that contain bone cells called osteocytes. How are lacunae linked? - Correct Answers By small channels called canaliculated. What are two main functions of canaliculated? - Correct Answers They provide routes by which nutrients can reach the osteocytes and waste products can leave them. Hypodontia. - Correct Answers Having less than six congenitally missing teeth. Oligodontia. - Correct Answers Having more than six congenitally missing teeth. True or False. A bifurcated canine/premolar is an anomaly. - Correct Answers False. It is a variation of normal. What is the primary cause of super eruption? - Correct Answers Not having an antagonist on the opposing arch. Where do retrocuspid papillae present? - Correct Answers Lingual to the mandibular cupids on the gingiva. Who is most likely to be seen with retrocuspid papillae and why? - Correct Answers Young children because they tend to disappear over time. What is another name for enamel pearl? - Correct Answers Enameloma. What is ectopic eruption? - Correct Answers Eruption in the wrong place. What is aplasia? - Correct Answers Failure to develop. Hypodontia, taurodontism of the first permanent molar, impaction of succedaneums teeth, ectopic eruption of premolars/canines, aplasia of the second molars, and tipping of adjacent teeth are all associated with... - Correct Answers Amyloses of primary molars. How does amyloses develop? - Correct Answers Amyloses is usually associated with hypodontia. The primary tooth fails to exfoliate due to a missing permanent tooth. What is the most common enclosed, primary tooth and what permanent tooth fails to develop due to hypodontia? - Correct Answers 2nd primary molar and 2nd permanent premolar. What are two ways amylose primary teeth affect erupted permanent teeth? - Correct Answers It can displace the permanent tooth and reduce the space needed for eruption leading to impaction. What is another name for primary teeth? - Correct Answers Deciduous teeth. Define succedaneums teeth? - Correct Answers Permanent teeth that replace primary teeth. What are non-succedaneums teeth? - Correct Answers Permanent first, second and third molars. What is internal root desorption? - Correct Answers Spontaneous desorption of pulpal and dentinal walls within the pulp canal. How does in internal root desorption present clinically and why? - Correct Answers Hyperplastic, vascular pulp tissue fills in the desorption areas causing the appearance of a pink-hued area on the crown of the tooth. How does internal root desorption present radio graphically? - Correct Answers The pulp chambers appear to be very large. What is another name for the parotid duct? - Correct Answers Stemson’s duct. Calculating clinical attachment loss (CAL) - Correct Answers When the gingival margin is coronal to the CEJ, subtract it from the probing depth. Tissue needs to be taken away for the gingival margin to be at its normal level. When there is recession add the distance between the CEJ and the gingival margin to the probing depth. Tissue need to be added for the gingival margin to be at its normal level. What happens to the lamina dura during tooth eruption? - Correct Answers It becomes thicker. What happens to the lamina dura in the presence of period? - Correct Answers It becomes thinner. If the patient has gingivitis, the reason for edema is... - Correct Answers Toxins produced from biofilm. If the end of the probe perpendicular to the long axis of the tooth, what might it be measuring? - Correct Answers Furcation involvement. What is the best proof of destruction of tissues? - Correct Answers Attachment loss. True or false, recession is always a sign of period? - Correct Answers False, tooth mobility, furcation involvement, and radiographic bone loss. True or false, teeth with a periodontal abscess are not vital. - Correct Answers False, they are vital. True or false, teeth with a periapical abscess are vital. - Correct Answers False, they are not vital. True or false, a person can have their teeth cleaned before having a comprehensive oral exam by a licensed dentist. - Correct Answers False. What is the most common cause of drug induced xerostomia? - Correct Answers The altering of neural pathways that stimulate salivary gland secretion. These drugs are either anticholinergic or sympathomimetic. True or false, parasympathetic nerves are associated with sympathomimetic action. - Correct Answers False, cholinergic. True or false, sympathetic nerves are associated with cholinergic action. - Correct Answers False, sympathomimetic. True or false chemotherapeutic agents can cause gingival bleeding. - Correct Answers True. What is the generic name for Coumadin? - Correct Answers Warfarin. What is the generic name for Plavix? - Correct Answers Clopidogrel. Anorexiants, ant acne, antianxiety, anticholinergic/antispasmodics, anticonvulsants, antidepressants, antidiarrheal, antiemetic’s, antihistamines, antihypertensive, anti- inflammatory, analgesics, antinauseants, antiparkinsonian agents, antipsychotics, bronchodilators, decongestants, diuretics, muscle relaxants, narcotic analgesics, and sedatives are all drugs that cause... - Correct Answers Xerostomia. Anticoagulants, antiplatelet, epilepsy, convulsion, seizure, chemotherapeutics, diuretics, antihistamine, and immunosuppressant drugs are can all cause... - Correct Answers Gingival bleeding What is the generic name for Procardia? - Correct Answers Nifedipine. What type of drug is nifedipine, what is it for, and what is a common side effect? - Correct Answers Calcium channel blocker, hypertension, and drug-induced gingival hyperplasia. Corticosteroids and anti-inflammatory drugs can cause... - Correct Answers Delayed healing. Name three common anticonvulsants. - Correct Answers Phenytoin, succinimides, and valproic acid. What is the generic name for Dilantin? - Correct Answers Phenytoin. Phenytoin and verapamil are what type of drugs? - Correct Answers Calcium channel blockers. What is the generic name for Sand immune? - Correct Answers Cyclosporine. Cyclosporine is an example of... - Correct Answers An immunosuppressant. Name three types of drugs that cause gingival hyperplasia. - Correct Answers Calcium channel blockers, anticonvulsants, and immunosuppressant’s. R.I.P.E. is a common mnemonic for what drugs, what are they for? - Correct Answers Rifampin, Isoniazid, Pyrazinamide, Ethambutol, anti-tuberculosis. Why is TB difficult to treat? - Correct Answers Lowered host defense mechanism. Development of resistant strains. Often not taken as directed. Disease is easily transmitted. Who should receive TB medication? - Correct Answers Close contacts of recent TB cases. Positive skin test. Immunosuppressed patients. What type of drug is aspirin? - Correct Answers Salicylate. What is aspirin often taken for? What is a common side effect? - Correct Answers A thrombotic, bleeding. Define hemostasis. - Correct Answers Physiologic process of halting bleeding. How is coagulation related to hemostasis? - Correct Answers It is one type of hemostatic process. What is the purpose of sodium sulfite in anesthetics? - Correct Answers Preservative compound that prevents oxidation. True or false, unsteady gait is a side effect of recreational use of nitrous oxide. - Correct Answers False, loss of feeling in extremities, hearing loss, loss of motor function. What is a common side effect of Prozac? - Correct Answers Xerostomia. What is the generic name for Prozac? - Correct Answers Fluoxetine. What type of drug is fluoxetine? - Correct Answers SSRI. What does SSRI stand for? - Correct Answers Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (this medication is selective to serotonin and not the other neurotransmitters) What is the most likely side effect of prednisone? - Correct Answers Impaired wound healing. What is the most likely side effect of Claritin? - Correct Answers Xerostomia. What is the generic name for Claritin? - Correct Answers Loratadine. What type of drug is loratadine and what is it used for? - Correct Answers Antihistamine, allergy symptoms and hive. What is a common side effect of steroid usage? - Correct Answers Delayed wound healing. What type of cells compose ameloblastomas and what do these cells do? - Correct Answers Ameloblasts, form enamel. What gender and age are ameloblastomas typically seen? - Correct Answers 40-50 year old males (can be women at any age as well). What is the most common radiographic description of ameloblastomas? - Correct Answers Soap bubble appearance. Describe the growth of the ameloblastoma. - Correct Answers -Slow growing -Aggressively grows into jaw causing pain and swelling. True or False. Ameloblastoma cells sometimes migrate to cervical lymph nodes and the lungs. - Correct Answers True. Name three examples of "white" diseases. - Correct Answers -Candidiasis. -Lichen planes. -Leukoplakia. Biopsy of leukoplakia will most often show... - Correct Answers -Hyperkeratosis. -A reactive but harmless lesion. True or False. Oral leukoplakia must not be biopsied to be accurately diagnosed. - Correct Answers False, it must be biopsied. 20% of leukoplakia cases will show... - Correct Answers -Dysplasia. -Premalignant lesion. -Cancer. What demographics experience oral leukoplakia the most? - Correct Answers -Males. -Older age groups. What is the main feature of oral leukoplakia and how does it contrast oral candidiasis? - Correct Answers It does not wipe off. Where is leukoedema most commonly found? - Correct Answers In the buccal tissue. How does leukoedema appear? - Correct Answers Filmy, opaque, white to slate gray. What ethnicity experiences leukoedema most often? - Correct Answers 90% of African Americans. True or False. Leukoedema is accentuated in smokers. - Correct Answers True. True or False. Leukoedema does not disappear when the buccal mucosa is stretched. - Correct Answers False, it does "disappear." What is Nikolsky's Sign? - Correct Answers Fragile mucosa is induced to blister and slough when pressure is applied. How is pemphigus vulgaris different from bullous pemphigoid? - Correct Answers Pemphigus vulgaris is positive for Nikolsky's Sign. Slide 263 - Correct Answers Slide 263