DSE Exam With 100% Correct Answers 2023

DSE Exam With 100% Correct Answers 2023 T/F: Nifidepine causes gingival hyperplasia. - Correct answer-True Large space between 11 and 12. What do you do? a. Mini implant b. Do a bridge c. Leave it alone - Correct answer-Leave it alone Papilloma on a tongue - Correct answerHow do you treat this? (Mucocele) - Correct answer-Excise with salivary gland remnants What is the problem with resin bonded bridges? - Correct answer-Debonding Hepatitis A/ Jaundice is fine to treat after - Correct answer-1 week Allergic reaction to barbiturate on the lip. What do you give? - Correct answerAntihistamines (Benadryl) Picture of patient that didn't like the look of their canine and premolar, and asked what it was? - Correct answer-Hypoplasia Facial erosion on teeth due to - Correct answer-Aacidic bevarages Amelogenesis imperfecta Xray - Correct answer-(Look up other examples too) [Picture of blue sclera] What other dental findings should you see? - Correct answerDentinogenesis imperfecta Hyperthyroid symptoms are all except: 1. Exopthalmos 2. Tachycardia 3. Tremors of extremities 4. Fatigue - Correct answer-4. Fatigue Minimum axial reduction for a crown is - Correct answer-1.5mm Replacing #9 crown. Which measurement is correct? (weird question with weird wording) - Correct answer-2mm What is the maximum amount of unsupported porcelain allowed? - Correct answer-2mm T/F: Cyclosporine causes gingival hyperplasia - Correct answer-True Most important treatment for ANUG is - Correct answer-Debridement What is the treatment for gingival hyperplasia? - Correct answer-Gingivectomy Patient presents with a liver clot. What is the treatment? - Correct answer-Irrigate, apply pressure, reassess Would you rather overcontour or under contour the temporary crown to preserve gingival health - Correct answer-Undercontour Picture of a patient with all crowns on upper and lower. What is wrong? - Correct answer-Impingement on gums/gum health (Other choices were incorrect overjet/overbite, improper contour of crown) Patient has pain on swallowing when wearing their denture, why? - Correct answerOverextension of lingual flange Patient presents with space in between 3rd molar with class 2 mobility and premolar. What do you do to fix this? - Correct answer-Implant Patient missing #2 and #3. #1 has class 3 mobility and furcation involvement. What would be the optimal treatment plan? - Correct answer-Extract #1 and either implant for #3 or #2 and #3. If you cannot pick a color for a crown what do you chose? - Correct answer-Something with lower shade saturation and less gray Worst place for implant is - Correct answer-Maxillary posterior Best place for implant is - Correct answer-Either mandibular posterior or anterior Best long term prognosis for an implant? - Correct answer-Either mandibular posterior or anterior Worst cement for deep restoration? - Correct answer-Zinc phosphate BW xray of a tooth with an amalgam and patient complained of pain when provoked by hot or cold. Why? - Correct answer-Deep amalgam filling Leave perio pack in for how long? - Correct answer-1 week Picture of an epulis fissuratum. How do you treat this before making a new denture? - Correct answer-Excision. [Other answer choices: Apply tissue conditioner, leave lesion alone, prescribe antibiotics] Reason for perio flap? - Correct answer-Access for instrumentation Maxillary tori in denture patient. What do you do before making a new denture? - Correct answer-Remove it What does a major connector of a denture need? - Correct answer-Rigidity According to OSHA you need to check the autoclave with what frequency? - Correct answer-Weekly HIV ELISA test was negative for a person who had a needle stick. What does that mean? - Correct answer-Patient has no Ab's present Ortho case- what was the most important thing they did in maxillary arch? - Correct answer-Align the teeth for future restorative procedures (Not close upper and lower diastema) What pain reliever do you give to a patient who has kidney disease? - Correct answerAcetaminophen Picture of surveyor. Asked what we were looking at? - Correct answer-Space for guideplane What is a major complication of Phlebitis? - Correct answer-Pulmonary Embolism Patient complaining of space in between teeth after SRP. Why? - Correct answerReduction in edema 1-2 mm of reduction in probing depth after performing SRP. What is the cause? - Correct answer-Formation of long junctional epithelium If a patient has a shunt on the left arm where do you take BP? - Correct answer-Right arm Picture of #10 and #11 lingual surface, what is wrong with the gingiva? - Correct answer-Edema Space in between #29 and #30 in a very old patient with no #31 and #32 and barely occluding with #3. Why is this happening? - Correct answer-No occlusion or mesial drifting premolars Surgical stent fits the gums but immediate denture doesn't fit. What do you do? - Correct answer-Relieve until it seats Picture of the bottom of the tongue with multiple white lesions. Stated that the patient had complaint of sore gums and tongue, fever of 101 degrees. What is most likely diagnosis? - Correct answer-Primary herpetic stomatitis Treatment of Primary herpetic stomatitis - Correct answer-Palliative Patient with purple lesions on palate and said they had similar lesions on body too. What is most probable cause? - Correct answer-HIV (Kaposi Sarcoma) Other answer choices: Sturge weber, erythema multiforme What disease will effect wearing complete dentures the most? - Correct answerSjogren's Disease (xerostomia) Lesion in the mouth that heals with a scar? - Correct answer-Major aphthous ulcer Picture with an arrow pointing to a soft tissue mass on FOM. This is the opening of - Correct answer-Wharton's Duct (Submandibular Duct) Lichen planus is present on the tongue that was asymptomatic, asked what is the treatment? - Correct answer-Corticosteroids (Would have picked "Nothing" but "Nothing" was not an option) Picture of white things on buccal mucosa, and asked what it was. - Correct answerLichen planus (but it also looked like leukoedema, cheek biting, etc. and all were answer choices) Panoramic xray with radiopacity underneath the mandibular incisors, asked what was it? - Correct answer-???? Supernumerary tooth (maybe odontoma) Gingival edema is caused by - Correct answer-Anaerobes Post crown cementation sensitivity is due to - Correct answer-Microleakage Before you line a complete denture you must first establish: - Correct answer-Posterior occlusion Picture of patient's maxilla with a FPD and RPD attached to it. Asked how they are attached? - Correct answer-Semiprecision attachment? Precision attachments are not good with patient with - Correct answer-Low dexterity Patient on steroids. What do you need to know before dental treatment? - Correct answer-Duration and dosage What is the most important thing for calculating medication dosage for child? - Correct answer-Patient's weight Patient just had a stroke. What do you need to worry about? - Correct answer-If they are on anticoagulants Contraindication for apically positioned flap is - Correct answer-Esthetics Purpose of a wedge during a restoration is - Correct answer-Adaptation of he matrix band CI for a patient with hyperthyroidism is - Correct answer-Vasoconstrictions (Epinephrine) No hair and missing teeth? - Correct answer-Ectodermal dysplasia ANEMIA! - Correct answer-Read about pernicious anemia. Decrease in RBC when body can't absorb enough vitamin B12 Hemolytic, B12, and folate deficiency-- 2 questions Hereditary telangiectasia is associated with what? - Correct answer-Iron deficiency anemia Gave normal ranges of patient's numbers for RBC, WBC, and platelets. What is wrong with this person? high WBC count - Correct answer-Leukemia (Pt also had sore lymph nodes, painful gums) What antibiotic can cause arm rash? - Correct answer-Penicillin Patient was on penicillin for 2 weeks. His tongue is sore. What do you do? - Correct answer-Fungal test (test for candida) Picture of a red painful tongue in an uncontrolled diabetic. What is it due to - Correct answer-Malnutrition If there is a red and white mixed lesion, what do you biopsy? - Correct answer-The red and white portions of the mixed lesion Multiple questions about eruption and looking at BW to see if its normal - Correct answer-STUDY ERUPTION TIMES! Most likely reason that sealants fail - Correct answer-Contamination There is an unconscious patient in your waiting room. What is the first thing you do? - Correct answer-Check breathing (airway??) ID a mental ridge on radiograph - Correct answerRadiopacity on a pan. What is it? - Correct answer-Mucous retention cyst in the maxillary sinus Difference in anaphylaxis vs. Syncope - Correct answer-Anaphylaxis has wheezing and bronchoconstriction Patient returns with pain 72 hours after extraction. What do you do? - Correct answerGive irrigation and use eugenol soaked gauze Extraction of tooth and patient comes back with a big infection. What is it? - Correct answer-Subperiosteal abscess Picture of a patient with Down Syndrome. What do you need to be worried about as a dentist? - Correct answer-Congenital heart disease When can you use tissue conditioner and soft reline on a complete denture patient? - Correct answer-Anytime How long do you wait for a lab reline of immediate complete denture? - Correct answer6 months What is the reason for a try in for an immediate denture? - Correct answer-VDO Picture of a patient with a very large diastema. What do you do? - Correct answerLeave it alone Radiolucency next to a premolar. What do you do? - Correct answer-Refer to oral surgery Panoramic of Radiolucency at ramus. What do you do? - Correct answer-Retake for diagnostic reasons or refer to oral surgery? Broken coronal portion of a canine. What do you do? - Correct answer-Conservative endo and prepare post and core. Does acid etching create a chemical bond? - Correct answer-NO Study Multiple odontoma!!! - Correct answer-:) After a cleaning patient still has bleeding on probing. What is this due to? - Correct answer-Retained subgingival plaque Swollen lesion on the tongue. What do you do next? - Correct answer-Palpate lesion and see if it is firm. Picture of a lip with something on the corner of it. What is it? - Correct answer-It was either SCC or syphilis. Other choices: Angular chelitis, herpes labialis Bone loss on #4, what is it? - Correct answer-Crater defect GTR best for what kind of furcations? - Correct answer-Class 2 furcation Reduction of probing depth after SRP but there is still mobility in anterior mandibular teeth. What do you do? - Correct answer-GTR or periodic evaluation Study SLOB rule - Correct answer-:) Patient has candida. What do you give them? - Correct answer-Fluconazole (Clotrimazole?) Patient has something firm and benign. What is it? - Correct answer-Identify the picture that is pleomorphic adenoma (usually a big swelling right next to the ear, could be on the palate too) Asymptomatic crowned lateral with a PA radiolucency, what do you do? - Correct answer-RCT Mandibular incisor with large pulp chamber and PA RL. What is the large pulp chamber from? - Correct answer-Trauma after eruption 2 months after RCT tooth still has RL. What do you do? - Correct answer-Monitor 2 years after RCT tooth still has RL. What do you do? - Correct answer-Retreat Tooth #14 had a RCT and patient is symptomatic with RL in one of the canals. How do you treat it? - Correct answer-Retreat ALL canals Pregnant person afraid of needles. What do you do? - Correct answer-Trendelenburg position Patient is 6 months pregnant and has bleeding gums and mobile teeth. How do you treat? - Correct answer-Conservative debridement Pregnant lady with diastema in between #8 and #9 with deep probing depth and class 1 mobility on 8 and 9. What is the reason for the diastema? - Correct answer-Chronic perio Post should not be greater than... - Correct answer-1/3 diameter of root Picture with a lesion that was anterior to the earlobe and it was swollen, stated the stensons duct was also inflamed, what do you check first? - Correct answer-Stimulate parotid and see if you get exudate Tongue sticking out with normal mucosa. What is it? - Correct answer-Previous laceration When whitening teeth, what do you do? - Correct answer-Wait for at least 5 days before you do restorative Appliance for ortho, what is it doing? - Correct answer-Tipping Permanent dentition with tetracycline staining, when did this happen? - Correct answerPatient ingested tetracycline when they were between 0 and 5 years old. Picture of denture showing working side. - Correct answer-Lateral movements were good You can increase working time of alginate by - Correct answer-Adding water that is colder than room temperature Picture that asked what was wrong with the teeth: Severe caries - Correct answerSevere caries Patient with lateral periodontal abscess. What is initial treatment? - Correct answerDebridement Contraindication for anti-sialogogue - Correct answer-Glaucoma What is the proper technique for taking final impression for denture? - Correct answerCover tissue with little force. 5 month old pregnant lady with rheumatic fever and heart murmer. Should you premedicate her? - Correct answer-No Case: If patient was given kidney transplant, how would this change treatment? - Correct answer-Would need to premedicate patient because they would be immunosuppressed. Panoramic with black dots and lines, what is this due to? - Correct answer-Static electricity