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Dental Specialties
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Dental Specialties
What is dental public health concerned with? correct answers Diagnosis, prevention, control of dental diseases and promotion of oral health through organized community efforts
What is endodontics? correct answers The study and treatment of the inside of the tooth (pulp) and periapical tissues
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Dental Specialties Final Exam || Already Graded A+.
What is dental public health concerned with? correct answers Diagnosis, prevention, control of dental diseases and promotion of oral health through organized community efforts
What is endodontics? correct answers The study and treatment of the inside of the tooth (pulp) and periapical tissues
What is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon? correct answers specializes in oral surgery, removing impacted wisdom teeth, difficult teeth extractions, placing dental implants, bone grafting, and much more.
What is oral medicine and pathology? correct answers concerned with the diagnosis, nature and primarily non-surgical management of oral, maxillofacial, and temporomandibular diseases and disorders, including dental management of patients with medical complications.
What is oral and maxillofacial radiology? correct answers concerned with performance and interpretation of diagnostic imaging used for examining the craniofacial, dental and adjacent structures
Whats an orthodontist? correct answers correcting misaligned teeth, bite issues, and jaw irregularities
Whats periodontics? correct answers concerned with the structures surrounding and supporting the teeth.
Whats a prosthodontist? correct answers treating and handling dental and facial problems that involve restoring missing tooth and jaw structures
System for risk assessments correct answers ASA - normal healthy patient
ASA - patient with mild systemic disease
ASA - patient with severe systemic disease
ASA - patient with severe systemic disease that is a constant threat to life
Extra duties of an RRDH correct answers -Placing an finishing fillings
-Taking impressions for crowns, bridges & implants
-torquing implants
What is pulp capping? correct answers calcium hydroxide is placed over an exposed pulp to encourage the formation of dentin
What is a pulpotomy? correct answers Removal of the coronal portion of an exposed vital pulp
When is a commonly pulpotomy indicated? correct answers For vital primary teeth, deep carious
lesion and emergency situations. what is pulpectomy (root canal)? correct answers to remove completely infected or dead pulp from canal.
What is Apicoectomy and Apical Curett? correct answers Remove apical portion of root.
What is a hemisection? correct answers The root and the crown are cut lengthwise and removed
Education of a paediatric dentist correct answers An additional 2-3 years after dental school
Erikson's Stages of Development correct answers 1. Learning basic trust (Birth to 12-18 months)
2. Learning autonomy (12-18 months to 3 years)
3. Play age (3 years to 5-6 years
4. School age (5-6 years to adolescence)
5. (Adolescence) 12-20
The best learning structure for children correct answers "tell, show, do"
When do regular exams to the dental office begin? correct answers two years old
What is early childhood caries? correct answers The presence of one or more decayed, missing (from. caries) or filled surfaces in the primary teeth of a child under 6
Education of an oral surgeon correct answers 4-6 post graduate
What a periosteal elevator? correct answers Retracts periosteum from bone
Whats a straight elevator? correct answers Applies leverage against the tooth to loosen it from the PDL and ease extraction
What a rongeur? correct answers Trims alveolar bone
What are the absorbable suture materials? correct answers -Plain catgut (fast healing)
-Chromic catgut (slow healing)
-Vicryl
What are the non absorbable suture materials? correct answers Silk, polyester and nylon
When are sutures usually removed? correct answers 5-7 days after placement
The most common type of implants placed correct answers Endosteal implant (osteointegrated implant)
What is a subperiosteal implant? correct answers Placed under the periosteum and on top of bone
Whats a transosteal implant? correct answers Inserted through the inferior border of the mandible
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