What prerequisites are necessary for a candidate to apply to dental school
Right Ans - Completion of the DAT exam ; Successful completion of one year of
physics, chem, organic chemistry, and biology
What does ethics in dentistry deal with? Right Ans - Morals, Values, and
behaviors as they relate to patient care
Failure to deliver due care with patients Right Ans - Negligence
This involves failure to act as a "reasonable and prudent professional" would
act Right Ans - Omission
An act that a "reasonable and prudent professional" would not perform
Right Ans - Commission
C. Edmund Kells Right Ans - First to take xray on his arm and eventually
had to have it amputated due to cancer arising from repeated radiation
exposure
This type of radiation results when primary radiation and the atoms of an
object it contacts interact Right Ans - Secondary Radiation
All of the radiation that reaches the xray film passing through the object being
radiographed Right Ans - Remnant radiation
All the radiation other than the primary beam caused by electrons hitting the
glass wall and other parts of the xray tube Right Ans - stray radiation
Rays from the primary beam that have been deflected by tissues or other
objects Right Ans - scattered radiation
This portion of the tooth is embedded in bone and covered by cementum
Right Ans - Anatomic Root
, This portion of the tooth is located at the central portion of the tooth and
surrounded by dentin Right Ans - Pulp Cavity
This portion of the tooth is surrounded by enamel and is visible in the oral
cavity Right Ans - Anatomic Crown
This portion of the tooth is the tip of the root Right Ans - Apex
This is the minute opening where lymphatic tissue, nerve tissue, bloody
supply enter the tooth Right Ans - Apical foramen
Blood vessels are more numerous in older than in younger tooth Right Ans
- false
pulp canal is the small and narrow portion of the pulp cavity located within
the root of the tooth Right Ans - true
Fact about enamel Right Ans - it is made up of rods and prisims
Facts about dentin Right Ans - made up of 70% inorganic materials
contains odontoblasts
What are the tissues that surround and support the teeth called? Right Ans
- Periodontium
What covers the cortical plate and is known as the fibrous sheath Right Ans
- Periosteum
This is also called the alveolar process proper and the cortical plate is
attached directly to this Right Ans - Lamina Dura
Which types of cells are found within the PDL build bone Right Ans -
Osteoblasts
What is the movable tissue surrounding the crown of the tooth above the CEJ
of the tooth Right Ans - Free gingiva
What is the term for the peak of the free gingiva Right Ans - gingival crest
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