HESI DENTAL HYGIENE EXAM TEST BANK 2024 650
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
(PROFESSOR VERIFIED) LATEST EDITION (JUST
RELEASED)
What is defined as a COLONY of microorganisms within a protective polysaccharide SLIME layer?
- calculus
- caries
- bacterial plaque - ANSWER✔✔bacterial plaque
- Adhesion
- Acquired pellicle
- Colonization - ANSWER✔✔Colonization
- Adhesion
- Acquired pellicle
- Colonization - ANSWER✔✔Adhesion
- Adhesion
- Acquired pellicle 1 / 4
Which part of the plaque formation are microcolonies formed?
Which part of the plaque formation do bacteria bind to the pellicle within hours?
Which part of the plaque formation is a thin film coating over the tooth immediately on exposure to saliva?
- Colonization - ANSWER✔✔Acquired pellicle
- saliva
- GCV (gingival crevicular fluid
- Food
- Vitamins - ANSWER✔✔saliva
- saliva
- GCV (gingival crevicular fluid
- Food
- Vitamins - ANSWER✔✔GCV
- Enamel
- Cementum
- Calculus
- Bone - ANSWER✔✔Calculus
- subgingival calculus
- Supragingival calculus 2 / 4
What is the nutrient source for supra-gingival plaque and calculus?
What is the nutrient source for subgingival plaque and calculus?
What is mineralized plaque biofilm?
Which type of calculus is found CORONAL to the gingival margin, is yellow, white, or grey, and commonly found NEAR the openings of salivary ducts and the LINGUALS of the mandibular anterior teeth and BUCCALS of the maxillary molars?
- Spicules - ANSWER✔✔supragingival calculus
- subgingival calculus
- Supragingival calculus
- Spicules - ANSWER✔✔Subgingival calculus
- Class I
- class II
- class III - ANSWER✔✔class III
- Class I
- class II
- class III - ANSWER✔✔Class II
- Class I
- class II
- class III - ANSWER✔✔Class I
Which type of calculus is found APICAL to the gingival margin, is BLACK, DARK BROWN, OR DARK GREEN and commonly form NODULES?
Which type of mobility is movable in any direction and DEPRESSIBLE IN socket?
Which type of mobility is has a movement GREATER than 1mm in any direction. NOT depressible in the socket?
Which type of mobility movement up to 1mm in any direction?
What type of probe is used to measure furcation? - ANSWER✔✔Nabers probe 3 / 4
Which type of FURCATION is the concavity detected with instrument, but the furcation CANNOT be entered
- Class I
- Class II
- Class III
- Class IV - ANSWER✔✔Class I
- Class I
- Class II
- Class III
- Class IV - ANSWER✔✔Class IV
- Class I
- Class II
- Class III
- Class IV - ANSWER✔✔class II
- Class I
- Class II
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Which type of FURCATION does the instrument pass COMPLETELY through furcation, which is clinically VISIBLE due to gingival recession. Radiolucency in furcation is visible.
Which type of FURCATION does the instrument ENTER furcation from one aspect, but CANNOT pass completely through (or to palatal root on maxillary). Radiolucency may be visible.
Which type of FURCATION does the instrument pass completely through furcation, which is still COVERED by soft tissue. Radiolucency in the furcation is visible.