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Dental Hygiene Prometric Exam, CSCE, CSCE, 2 Dental Hygiene Prometric 2, Computer Simulated Dental Hygiene Exam, Dental Hygiene Prometric Exam CDCA, Dental Hygiene Computer Simulated Case Test Questions With Complete Solutions
Question 1: What is an oral side effect of Prozac?
CORRECT answer: xerostomia
Question 2: How do steroids effect wound healing?
CORRECT answer: causes delayed wound healing
Question 3: What should be done with a patient with a previous
history of high blood pressure and comes in for their appointment with reading of 160/116?
CORRECT answer: refer the patient to their physician
immediately
Question 4: Premedication regimine
CORRECT answer: 2g Amoxicillin 600 mg Clindamycin
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Question 5: Patient comes in for appointment who needs
premed, and they took 300 mg 1 hour prior to their appointment.What would you do?
CORRECT answer: administer another 300 mg and wait 1 hr
prior to treatment (because their clindamycin premed is 600mg 1hr prior to treatment)
Question 6: What is a PAN used for?
CORRECT answer: - look at location of 3rd molars - impactions
- pathology - NOT FOR BONE LOSS
Question 7: Items containing fluoride?
CORRECT answer: - tea - pork - fish
Question 8: What type of water does not contain fluoride?
CORRECT answer: well water
Question 9: Know the papilla of the tongue
CORRECT answer: - filiform (most numerous, very small) -
fungiform (mushroom shape, contain taste buds) - circumvallate
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(larger mushroom shaped, contain taste buds, on anterior side of sulcus terminalis) - foliate (leaf shaped, lateral border of tongue)
Question 10: What is hairy tongue caused by?
CORRECT answer: elongation of the filiform papillae
Question 11: Delayed eruption may be caused by
CORRECT answer: delayed exfoliation
Question 12: Identify mandibular canal radiographically
CORRECT answer: radiolucent, long dark area outlined with
dense cortical bone, located above or parallel to the inferior border of the mandible
Question 13: What is thickened lamina dura caused by? is this
appearance normal?
CORRECT answer: - caused by trauma - not normal
Question 14: Know film errors
CORRECT answer: - elongation: too little vertical angulation - foreshortening: too much vertical angulation - cone cut: PID not
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aligned with censor - overlap: inCORRECT horizontal
angulation
Question 15: Identify median rhomboid glossitis
CORRECT answer: rhombus shaped, central denuded area of
the tongue with red appearance
Question 16: What is the treatment for black hair tongue?
CORRECT answer: brush it
Question 17: What is a vitality test used for?
CORRECT answer: testing to see if the pulp is vital or not
(applying cold air on cotton swap and pushing it against the tooth; if the pulp is vital it hurts, if its necrotic you would not feel anything)