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Clinical picture of 14 y.o. with inflamed gingival ------- Answer -------Leukemia
How should an allergic reaction to barbiturates on lip be treated? ------- Answer -------
Benadryl
Patient does not li...
Blue sclera (eye picture), what dental findings should you see? ------- Answer -------
Dentinogenesis imperfecta
All of the following are Hyperthyroid symptoms except?
a. fatigue
b. exopthalamus
c. tachycardia
d. tremor of extremities ------- Answer -------a. fatigue
The minimal axial reduction for crowns are ------- Answer -------1.5mm
Crown on #9 needs to be replaced. What measurement is correct? ------- Answer -------
2mm occlusal reduction
What is the maximum amount of unsupported porcelain allowed? ------- Answer -------
2mm
The most important treatment for ANUG is ------- Answer -------debridement
What is Gingivectomy used for ------- Answer -------gingival hyperplasia
What is the treatment for a patient with a liver clot? ------- Answer -------Irrigate, apply
pressure, reassess
,(liver clot-unstable and often large, friable clot commonly forming in mucous
membranes. Usually lead to excessive bleeding and abnormal wound healing.)
In order to improve gingival health, what must you do to temporary crown? -------
Answer -------Under contour
Picture of Upper and lower complete arch crowns. What is wrong? ------- Answer -------
Impingement on gums/gums health
Patient presents with pain on swallowing when wearing their denture. What is wrong? --
----- Answer -------Overextension of lingual flange
Patient presents with space in between 3rd molar and premolar, with class II mobility.
How should you treat? ------- Answer -------Implant
Patient missing #2 and #3. #1 has Class III mobility and furcation involvement. What
would be the optimal treatment plan? ------- Answer -------Extract #1 and implant for #3
or #2and #3
If you cannot pick a color for crown, what should you choose? ------- Answer -------
something with LOWER shade saturation and less gray
What is the worst location for an implant? ------- Answer -------maxillary posterior
What is the best location for an implant? ------- Answer -------Either mandibular posterior
or mandibular anterior
What is the best long term prognosis for an implant? ------- Answer -------Either
mandibular posterior or mandibular anterior
Zinc phosphate is the worst cement for what type of restoration ------- Answer -------deep
restoration (pulpal irritation)
BW xray of amalgam restoration. Patient complained of pain when provoked by hot or
cold. What is wrong? ------- Answer -------Deep amalgam restoration
How long should periodontal packs be left for ? ------- Answer -------1 week
How should an epulis be treated before making a new denture? ------- Answer -------
Excision
What is the major reason for periodontal flaps? ------- Answer -------access of
instrumentation
Patient presents with maxillary tori. What needs to be done before making new denture
------- Answer -------Remove tori
,What is a characteristic of a major connector of a denture? ------- Answer -------Rigidity
How often does OSHA make you check the autoclave ------- Answer -------Weekly
HIV ELISA test was negative for a person who had a needle stick. What does that
mean? ------- Answer -------Patient has no Abs present
Ortho case - what was the most important thing they did in maxillary arch? -------
Answer -------Align the teeth for future restorative procedures ( not close upper or lower
diastemas)
What pain reliever do you give to a patient who has kidney disease? ------- Answer -------
Acetaminophen
Picture of surveyor. Asked what we were looking at? ------- Answer -------space for guide
plane
What is the major complications of Phelobitis ------- Answer -------pulmonary emboli
Patient complaining of space in between teeth after SRP, why? ------- Answer -------
because of
reduction in edema
1-2mm of reduction of probing depth after preforming SRP, what is the cause? -------
Answer -------LJE
If there is a shunt on left arm, what should you consider ------- Answer -------take BP on
right arm
Picture of #10 and #11 lingual surface, what is wrong with the gingiva? ------- Answer ---
----Edema
Space in between #29 and #30 in a very old patient with no #31 or #32 and barely
occluding with #3. This is due to what? ------- Answer -------No occlusion or mesial
drifting premolars
Surgical stent fits the gums but the immediate denture doesn't fit, what do you do? -------
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, he had a fever of 101 degrees.
Most likely diagnosis? ------- Answer -------Primary Herpetic Stomatitis . (herpes on
attached gingiva)
Treatment of Primary Herpetic Stomatitis ------- Answer -------palliative
, Patient with purple lesions on palate and said they had similar lesions on their
body too? What is the most probable cause? ------- Answer -------HIV (Kaposi Sarcoma)
Other choices
were Sturge Weber and Erthyema Multiforme
What disease will effect wearing complete dentures the most? ------- Answer -------
Sjorgens syndrome
(xerostomia)
Lesion in the mouth that heals with a scar? ------- Answer -------Major apthous ulcer -
(minor heal w/out scar)
Picture with an arrow pointing to a Soft tissue mass on FOM? ------- Answer -------
Opening of wharton's duct
Lichen planus present on the tongue that was asymptomatic, what is the treatment? -----
-- Answer -------Corticosteroids (nothing was not an option)
Picture of white things on the buccal mucosa and asked what it was? ------- Answer ------
-lichen planus
(but it also looked like luekoedema, cheek biting, etc. and all were answer choices)
Panoramic xray with radiopacity underneath the mandibular incisors, asked what
was it? ------- Answer -------supernumerary tooth
(other choices- odontoma, impacted insicor)
Gingival edema is caused by? ------- Answer -------anaerobes
Post crown cementation sensitivity is due to ------- Answer -------Microleakage
Before you reline a complete denture you must first do what? ------- Answer -------
establish posterior occlusion
Precision attachments not good for what type of patient? ------- Answer -------patient with
low dexterity
What information do you need from patient on steroids? ------- Answer -------you want to
know the duration and the dosage before dental treatment
Patients _____ is the most important thing for calculating medication dosage for a child
------- Answer -------weight
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