2023 - 2024 HESI Test Bank - Dental Hygiene Exam Guaranteed A+ Actual Questions and Answers, Complete 100%
- Under which classification of gingival diseases and conditions is puberty-
associated gingivitis found?:
Answer:
Plaque-Induced Gingival diseases modified by systemic factors
- A patient presents with a short, thick lingual frenum that results in limited
tongue movement affecting speech. Which is the most likely diagnosis of
this condition?:
Answer:
Ankyloglossia
3. When is tooth eruption complete?:
Answer:
Tooth has made contact with its antagonists in opposing jaw
4. When does mixed dentition begin?:
Answer:
Eruption of first permanent tooth
5. How many succedaneous teeth are in permanent dentition?:
Answer:
20
- The junction of a buccal and lingual triangular ridge is a transverse ridge.
The oblique ridge of a maxillary molar is an example of a transverse ridge.-:
Answer:
The first statement is true and the second is false
7. Which factor makes aging enamel less susceptible to caries?:
- / 4
Answer:
Reduced permeability
- Which groove is the most identifying characteristic of a three-cusp
mandibular second premolar?:
Answer:
Distolingual
9. Which is true regarding the height of contour?:
Answer:
Greatest elevation of tooth either incisocervically or occlusocervically
- How many primary and permanent teeth are typically present in an eight
yr old child?:
Answer:
14 primary; 10 permanent
11. Which describes the junction of two surfaces of a crown?:
Answer:
line angle
- Which G.V. Black classification involves the proximal surfaces of anterior
teeth including the incised edge or angle?:
Answer:
IV
13. Which ridge is a unique characteristic of permanent maxillary molars?:
Answer:
-Oblique
- Which division of the fifth cranial nerve innervates the temporomandibular
joint?: 2 / 4
Answer:
Mandibular
- Facial paralysis can result from damage to the motor neurons of which
cranial nerve?:
Answer:
VII
16. Which is the target area for the inferior alveolar nerve block?:
Answer:
Mandibular foramen on medial surface of mandible
17. Which salivary gland is encapsulated?:
Answer:
Sublingual
18. Which type of joint is the temporomandibular?:
Answer:
Synovial
- Which peripheral nervous system and subdivision are responsible for a
shutdown of salivary gland secretion?:
Answer:
autonomic; sympathetic
- Destroyed enamel cannot reform since the cells that formed it no longer
exist. Cavitated enamel can repair itself by the incorporation of calcium and
phosphate ions from saliva?:
Answer:
First statement is true second statement is false
- / 4
- Which bacterium is most important in causing the progression of carious
lesions?:
Answer:
Aciduric
22. Anaerobe bacteria:
Answer:
grow only in the absence of oxygen
23. Which bacterial structure interferes with phagocytosis?:
Answer:
capsule
24. Which bacteria grow best in refrigerated conditions?:
Answer:
Psychrophils
25. Endotoxin is a virulence property of:
Answer:
gram-negative bacteria
26. When comparing viruses to bacteria, viruses:
Answer:
enter host cells before they can multiply
27. Which is treated with nystatin?:
Answer:
Candidiasis
- Which is detected in the blood within two months after successful
- / 4
immunization