Dental Hygiene Prometric Practice
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What is the only pink intrinsic stain found on teeth? - ✔Internal resorption
What is the cause of a diastema? does it need treatment? - ✔it is genetic. It does not
need treatment but if the patient wants braces can remove the gap.
The tooth tests non-vital. What kind of abscess is present? - ✔periapical abscess
What does the hepatitis B vaccine also protect you from? - ✔Hepatitis D
The patient presents with lingual erosion. What would you ask them? What is the treatment? -
✔Ask if the patient is bulimic. Treat with a sodium bicarbonate rinse (baking soda and water)
Fluoride is found in what? - ✔Tea, Fish and pork. Not well water.
,The patient presents with gingival recession at #24 facial. What is the cause? -
✔Frenum attachment
A white lesion that can be wiped off - ✔Candidasis
leukoplaquia - ✔A white lesion that cannot be wiped off and needs a biopsy
Fibroma - ✔Most common oral tumor like growth. It is most commonly seen on the
buccal mucosa along the plane of teeth.
Nikolsky sign - ✔Sloughing pr blistering of tissue when pressure is applied. Used to
differentiate between pemphigus vulargaris and bullous pemphigoid. A positive sign
indicated pemphigus vulargis
Median Rhomboid Glossitis - ✔fungal condition treated with an antifungal drug. It is a form
of chronic atrophic candidiasis characterized by an asymptomatic, elongated, erythematous
patch of atrophic mucosa of the posterior mid-dorsal surface of the tongue due to a chronic
Candida infection.
Dentogenesis imperfecta - ✔radiographic: Bublous crown with small roots and absent pulp
chambers. It appears gray to yellowish brown. Enamel can be lost but the tooth is NOT
more susceptible to caries
Can apsirin burn be wiped off? - ✔NO it cannot! the question may show a white lesion and
say the patient experienced pain in that region
Mucocele - ✔a lesion on the lips that can be thin and blue in color. Can go without
treatment because it is a blocked minor salivary gland
, Ranula (mucus retention cyst) - ✔a lesion found on the floor of the mouth. It is a build up
of mucin due to trauma (usually)
What group of patients is hairy leukoplakia commonly seen in? - ✔HIV patients
Pyogenic Granuloma (Pregnancy Tumor) - ✔Papilla reacts strongly to the plaque
A tumor forms on the interdental gingiva or gingival margin
Due to hormonal changes
Noncancerous, Not painful
Red in color
Peripheral Giant Cell Granuloma (PGCG) - ✔- Reaction of hyperplastic granulation tissue
(CT) due to local trauma
- Giant Cells seen in histology
- Always on gingiva-arising from the PDL or periosteum; usually between 1st permanent
molar and incisors
- Red to blue broad based mass(sessile)-can see secondary ulceration
- Any age more in females
- Must biopsy to distinguish-excisional
measles cause what? - ✔Koplick Spots which are small red spots with white centers. It will
be located on the mucosal surfaces
Fordyce granules - ✔small, white or yellow papules on oral mucosa. These are
trapped sebaceous glands. No treatment is needed
herpangina (hand-foot-and mouth disease) - ✔Coxsackie
A Causes painful blistering
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