Oral Pathology DHY 330 Review ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Oral Pathology DHY 330 Review ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
After arriving at a differential diagnosis, information from which one of the following
categories will best establish a final or definitive diagnosis?
a. Clinical
b. Historical
c. Microscopic
d. Radiographic - CORRECT ANS...
Oral Pathology DHY 330 Review ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
After arriving at a differential diagnosis, information from which one of the following
categories will best establish a final or definitive diagnosis?
a. Clinical
b. Historical
c. Microscopic
d. Radiographic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. microscopic
The descriptive term that would be best used to describe a freckle is a:
a. Bulla
b. Vesicle
c. Lobule
d. Macule - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- d. Macule
Which one of the following terms describes the base of a lesion that is stalklike?
a. Sessile
b. Lobule
c. Pedunculated
d. Macule - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. Pedunculated
Clinical diagnosis can be used to determine the final or definitive diagnosis of all of the
following except:
a. Fordyce granules
b. Unerupted supernumerary teeth
,c. Mandibular tori
d. Erythema migrans - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- b. Unerupted supernumerary teeth
Radiographic diagnosis would contribute to the definitive diagnosis of all of the following
except:
a. Internal resorption
b. Periapical cemento-osseous dysplasia
c. Odontomas
d. A retained deciduous tooth - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- d. A retained deciduous tooth
6. To determine the presence of blood dyscrasias, which one of the following would provide
the most definitive information?
a. Laboratory blood tests
b. Bleeding during probing
c. Pallor of the gingiva and mucosa
d. Patient complaint of weakness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a. Laboratory blood tests
When an antifungal ointment or cream is used to treat angular cheilitis, which one of the
following diagnostic categories is being used?
a. Clinical
b. Therapeutic
c. Laboratory
d. Differential - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- b. Therapeutic
Yellow clusters of ectopic sebaceous glands commonly observed on the buccal mucosa and
evaluated through clinical diagnosis are most likely:
a. Lipomas
,b. Fibromas
c. Fordyce granules
d. Linea Alba - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. Fordyce granules
A slow-growing, bony, hard, exophytic growth on the midline of the hard palate is
developmental and hereditary in origin. The diagnosis is determined through clinical
evaluation. You suspect:
a. Torus palatinus
b. Mixed tumor
c. Palatal cyst
d. Nasopalatine cyst - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a. Torus palatinus
The "white line" observed clinically on the buccal mucosa that extends from anterior to
posterior along the occlusal plane is:
a. Leukoedema
b. Leukoplakia
c. Linea alba
d. Lichen planus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. Linea alba
Which one of the following occurs as an erythematous area, is devoid of filiform papillae, is
oval to rectangular in shape, does not change its characteristics, and is located on the midline
of the dorsal surface of the tongue?
a. Median rhomboid glossitis
b. Erythema migrans
c. Fissured tongue
d. Lingual thyroid - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a. Median rhomboid glossitis
Which one of the following diagnostic categories would the dental hygienist most easily
apply to the preliminary evaluation of oral lesions?
, a. Microscopic
b. Clinical
c. Therapeutic
d. Differential - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- b. Clinical
These examples of exostoses are found on the lingual aspect of the mandible in the area of
the premolars. They are benign, bony, hard, and require no treatment. Radiographically they
appear as radiopaque areas and are often bilateral. You suspect:
a. Retrocuspid papilla
b. Lingual mandibular bone concavity
c. Genial tubercles
d. Mandibular tori - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- d. Mandibular tori
Which one of the following terms is most often used when describing mandibular tori?
a. Bullous
b. Lobulated
c. Sessile
d. Pedunculated - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- b. Lobulated
Which of the following conditions is a benign anomaly, has a diffuse gray-to-white opaque
appearance on the buccal mucosa, and is most commonly seen in adult black individuals?
a. Leukoedema
b. Linea alba
c. Erythema migrans
d. Leukoplakia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a. Leukoedema
A patient has the clinical signs of necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis. The hygienist has the
patient begin hydrogen peroxide rinses without culturing the bacterial flora. This action
applies to which one of the following diagnostic categories?
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