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10/14/24, 10:52 PMELCS EXAM 2
Jeremiah
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1. Should be a routine part of dental and medical check-ups
2. Thorough oral examination should occur annually or at each recall
3. Establish a routine
Head and Neck Examination (overview) 4. Follow-up on suspicious signs
5. Take a history of tobacco (pack-years for smokers and alcohol use
6. Clinicians should obtain an updated medical, social, and dental history and
perform an intraoral and extraoral conventional visual and tactile examination in all
adult patients.
1. Visual inspection- look at client.
2. Palpation- feeling with hands.
3. Probing- using a perio probe to determine depth of the periodontal pocket.
4. Percussion- tapping to hear internal organs.
Examination Techniques 5. Diascopy- a glass plate is held against the skin to observe changes related to
pressure application (i.e. blanching).
6. Auscultation - listen to the body via stethoscope.
7. Aspiration- fluid is drawn and can be examined.
8. Evaluation of function- measurements are taken to determine the patient's ability
to determine a function.
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1. Gloves
2. Gauze
Tools and Time 3. Good lighting
4. Mouth mirror
5. 5 minutes
-Allows graduates to qualify for licensure without the necessity of having to be a
graduate of a school of dental hygiene
-Administered by the Board of Dental Examiners of Alabama
-Requirements:
1. Must be a graduate of an accredited high school or hold a GED certificate
2. Must have had at least 24 full months of full time employment as a dental assistant
3. Must be employed full time during the effective period of the training permit
before being eligible to take the Dental Hygiene Licensure examination
-Schedule of classroom instruction:
9 weekends (3 are 3-day weekends)
Alabama Dental Hygiene Program
-Clinical instruction requirements:
1. 150 prophys (aka cleanings)
2. Skilled in exposing radiographs
3. Able to accurately perform charting
Other:
1. Commonly a dental assistant who is trained to be a dental hygienist
2. The program is a year long.
3. Unique program ONLY in AL. They can only practice in AL, because no where else
recognizes this program.
1. Lingual- at base of the tongue
What are the 3 types of tonsils, and where 2. Palatine- lateral at posterior oral cavity
are they located?
3. Pharyngeal- in roof of the pharynx (known as
adenoids when hyperplastic)
1. Temporalis
2. Masseter
Extraoral Muscles
3. Sternocleidomastoid
1. Tragus of ear
2. Temporomandibular joint/condyle
3. Ramus
Extraoral Landmarks 4. Angle of mandible
5. Thyroid fullness
6. Trachea
7. Suprasternal notch
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