Download Dental Hygiene Exam 2023/2024 and more Exams Dentistry in PDF only on Docsity! 1[Date] 2 Dental Hygiene Exam 2023/2024 Latest updated. 2[Date] 2 1. 466.001- Legislative Purpose and Intent (Purpose of the law) - Correct answer Ensure that every dentist or dental hygienist practicing 5[Date] 2 and care of conditions within the human oral cavity and adjacent tissues and structures. 6[Date] 2 3. Dental Hygiene - Correct answer ______ is the rendering of educational, preventive and therapeutic dental services and any 7[Date] 2 related extra oral procedure required in the performance of services. 4. Board of Dentistry members include: - 10[Date] 2 appointment on BOD. 9. Must remain in clinical practice while on BOD 10. How many term years do dental 11[Date] 2 hygiene board members serve? - Correct answer 4 11. What is the maximum number of years a board member may 12[Date] 2 serve? - Correct answer 10 12. Who appoints the BOD members? - Correct answer Governor of Florida 15[Date] 2 except as provided by law 15. -Remediable tasks may be delegated if they pose no risk 16[Date] 2 16. -May only delegate remediable tasks defined by law or rule 17[Date] 2 17. -Dentists delegate NON- dentists 18. Authorization for irremediable tasks under general supervision is - 20[Date] 2 structures? - Correct answer Irremediable (anesthetic) 21. Intraoral treatment tasks which are reversible 21[Date] 2 and do not create unalterable changes within the oral cavity or structures and do not cause an increased risk to the patient? - Correct 22[Date] 2 answer Remediable tasks (rubber dam, matrix band, polish amalgam) 22. Applying topical with jet spray is 25[Date] 2 24. The practicing dentist is out of the country and a patient comes into the office with an emergency. Which remediable task is 26[Date] 2 the hygienist/assistant able to perform? - Correct answer Recementing temporary crown with temporary cement. 27[Date] 2 25. The use of laser or a laser type device is considered to be what type of task? - Correct answer Irremediable 30[Date] 2 requirements due to hardship. 28. -You have the option to be placed on inactive status if you pay the inactive status fee. 31[Date] 2 29. How many CE hours are required for dental hygienists? - Correct answer 24 credits biennially 32[Date] 2 30. How many CE hours are required for dentists? - Correct answer 30 credits biennially 31. How many minutes are 35[Date] 2 participation of less than 25 minutes. 33. Extra CE credits - Correct answer - Up to 11 CE Hrs for being expert witness 36[Date] 2 34. -Up to 3 CE Hrs for each semester teaching 35. -Up to 4 CE Hrs for attending BOD discipline meeting 37[Date] 2 36. Pro Bono CE Credit - Correct answer 1 CE for every 1 Hr of Pro Bono Work. Max 7Hrs Biennium 40[Date] 2 39. Which is an appropriate educational activity or topic for CE? - Correct answer Board approved individual study 41[Date] 2 40. Which of the following is an example of a CE a dental hygienist would take? - Correct answer Patient Stress Management 42[Date] 2 41. When are licensees excused from CE? - Correct answer In the 1st biennium of licensure 45[Date] 2 hygienist and dentist 44. A DDS or DH takes a 10 hr. course on HIV/AIDS. The remaining 9 hrs. 46[Date] 2 could count toward their 24/ 30 hrs. required for license renewal ? - Correct answer True 45. If 40 hrs of CE are taken in 1 47[Date] 2 biennium, the remaining hours taken can count towards the renewal requirement for the next biennium? - Correct answer False 50[Date] 2 mechanism to assure compliance a. Dentist MUST have CPR training every 2 years and resuscitation 51[Date] 2 equipment in good working order. 48. Can a dental hygienist prescribe fluoride or chlorhexidine to a pt of record? - Correct 52[Date] 2 answer -Hygienists can only recommend fl and chlorhexidine, not prescribe it. 49. -Some pts will not buy 55[Date] 2 51. DDS name, address, and license# 52. -Name, business address, license# of DH 56[Date] 2 53. -Statement of specific services authorized 54. -Statement of frequency 57[Date] 2 55. -ORIGINAL Rx is given to Patient. Copy goes in their chart 56. Which of the following is legal of a DDS writing Rx? - 60[Date] 2 answer DDS license number 59. Analgesia - Correct answer Absence of pain without loss of consciousness 61[Date] 2 60. Anesthesia - Correct answer the loss of feeling or sensation, especially loss of the sensation of pain. 62[Date] 2 61. Local Anesthesia - Correct answer the loss of sensation of pain in a specific area of the body, generally produced 65[Date] 2 accompanied by a partial or complete loss of protective reflexes, including the ability to independently maintain an airway and respond 66[Date] 2 purposefully to physical stimulation or verbal command. This modality includes administration of meds via parenteral 67[Date] 2 routes (oral, rectal or transmucosal) 63. Deep Sedation - Correct answer a controlled state of depressed consciousness 70[Date] 2 Correct answer True 65. Anesthesia permit - Correct answer $35 application fee 71[Date] 2 66. Certified copy of transcripts from school 67. Diploma 68. Copy of CPR card 72[Date] 2 69. If the DDS uses anesthesia in the office, the staff must be trained in anticonvulsants? - Correct answer True 75[Date] 2 73. DH works under _________ supervision. - Correct answer Direct; Indirect 74. Conscious and General Sedation 76[Date] 2 requirements - Correct answer - 60 didactic hours 75. -2 people must be present in order for DDS to perform conscious sedation 77[Date] 2 76. -3 people must be present in order for DDS to perform general sedation 77. Nitrous Oxide - Correct answer - 80[Date] 2 80. Any DDS practicing in FL must notify the BOD in writing by registered mail, postmarked within ______ hrs of any mortality or other 81[Date] 2 incident occurring in the outpatient facilities - Correct answer 48 81. A complete written report shall be filed with the 82[Date] 2 BOD within ______ days of the mortality or other incident. - Correct answer 30 days 82. A DH under the ________ 85[Date] 2 83. Nitrous Oxide produces an - Correct answer altered state of consciousness 86[Date] 2 84. With conscious sedation: i. the patient must be slightly awake ii. the patient must be under 100lbs 87[Date] 2 iii. must not effect physical ability - Correct answer c) must not effect physical ability 90[Date] 2 related to or the result of the administering of local anesthesia. A complete written report shall be filed with the BOD within _____ of the 91[Date] 2 mortality or other adverse occurrence. - Correct answer 24 hours; 30 days 87. What equipment should be present 92[Date] 2 in ER/recovery rooms when using sedation? - Correct answer O2 tank 88. EKG machine 89. Defibrillator 90. Thermometer 91. BP cuff 95[Date] 2 dental office? - Correct answer False 94. A patient who has received xrays, exam from DDS and Tx plan is 96[Date] 2 considered _______ - Correct answer Pt of record 95. Pt records - Correct answer - Dentist of record shall be primarily 97[Date] 2 responsible regardless of who provides tx 96. -Tx rendered by someone else in office must be