Dental Hygiene Prometric Exam Questions with
Correct Answers
1. What is an oral side effect of Prozac? correct answer: xerostomia
2. How do steroids effect wound healing? correct answer: causes delayed wound
healing
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
4. Premedication regimine correct
answer: 2g Amoxicillin 600 mg
Clindamycin
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)
6. What is a PAN used for? correct answer: - look at location of 3rd molars
-impactions
-pathology
-NOT FOR BONE LOSS
7. Items containing fluoride? correct answer: - tea
-pork
-fish
8. What type of water does not contain fluoride? correct answer: well
water
9. Know the papilla of the tongue correct answer: - filiform (most numerous, very
small)
-fungiform (mushroom shape, contain taste buds)
-circumvallate (larger mushroom shaped, contain taste buds, on anterior side of sulcus terminalis)
-foliate (leaf shaped, lateral border of tongue)
10. What is hairy tongue caused by? correct answer: elongation of the filiform
papillae
11. Delayed eruption may be caused by correct answer: delayed
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, exfoliation
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
13. What is thickened lamina dura caused by? is this appearance
normal? correct answer: - caused by trauma
-not normal
14. Know film errors correct answer: - elongation correct answer: too little vertical
angulation
-foreshortening correct answer: too much vertical angulation
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, -cone cut correct answer: PID not aligned with censor
-overlap correct answer: incorrect horizontal angulation
15. Identify median rhomboid glossitis correct answer: rhombus shaped, central
denuded area of the tongue with red appearance
16. What is the treatment for black hair tongue? correct answer:
brush it
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)
18. What are Hutchinson's incisors caused by? correct answer: Syphillis, NOT
biting on bobby pins
19. Identify lingual varicosities.. are they normal? correct answer: yes
they're normal
20. How long should ultrasonic units be flushed? correct answer: 20
seconds
21. What provides proof of sterilization? Spore test or autoclave
tape? correct answer: Spore test
22. What does autoclave tape tell you? correct answer: that it has reached
proper temperature
23. Hep B vaccination also protects you from? correct answer: Hep D
24. What can chlorhexidine cause? correct answer: staining, increased calculus
deposits
25. What instrument should you use to work on mandibular
anterior gingiva? correct answer: - 1/2 gracey
-columbia
-sickle ultrasonic
26. What drug causes bleeding? correct answer: Aspirin
27. What does the 2nd premolar replace? correct answer: the 2nd
deciduous molar
28. What would you do for fordyce granules? correct answer: leave alone;
normal
29. is a bifurcated maxillary canine normal? correct answer: yes
30. What would you do for lingual erosion? correct answer: rinse with
sodium bicarbonate
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Correct Answers
1. What is an oral side effect of Prozac? correct answer: xerostomia
2. How do steroids effect wound healing? correct answer: causes delayed wound
healing
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
4. Premedication regimine correct
answer: 2g Amoxicillin 600 mg
Clindamycin
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)
6. What is a PAN used for? correct answer: - look at location of 3rd molars
-impactions
-pathology
-NOT FOR BONE LOSS
7. Items containing fluoride? correct answer: - tea
-pork
-fish
8. What type of water does not contain fluoride? correct answer: well
water
9. Know the papilla of the tongue correct answer: - filiform (most numerous, very
small)
-fungiform (mushroom shape, contain taste buds)
-circumvallate (larger mushroom shaped, contain taste buds, on anterior side of sulcus terminalis)
-foliate (leaf shaped, lateral border of tongue)
10. What is hairy tongue caused by? correct answer: elongation of the filiform
papillae
11. Delayed eruption may be caused by correct answer: delayed
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, exfoliation
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
13. What is thickened lamina dura caused by? is this appearance
normal? correct answer: - caused by trauma
-not normal
14. Know film errors correct answer: - elongation correct answer: too little vertical
angulation
-foreshortening correct answer: too much vertical angulation
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, -cone cut correct answer: PID not aligned with censor
-overlap correct answer: incorrect horizontal angulation
15. Identify median rhomboid glossitis correct answer: rhombus shaped, central
denuded area of the tongue with red appearance
16. What is the treatment for black hair tongue? correct answer:
brush it
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)
18. What are Hutchinson's incisors caused by? correct answer: Syphillis, NOT
biting on bobby pins
19. Identify lingual varicosities.. are they normal? correct answer: yes
they're normal
20. How long should ultrasonic units be flushed? correct answer: 20
seconds
21. What provides proof of sterilization? Spore test or autoclave
tape? correct answer: Spore test
22. What does autoclave tape tell you? correct answer: that it has reached
proper temperature
23. Hep B vaccination also protects you from? correct answer: Hep D
24. What can chlorhexidine cause? correct answer: staining, increased calculus
deposits
25. What instrument should you use to work on mandibular
anterior gingiva? correct answer: - 1/2 gracey
-columbia
-sickle ultrasonic
26. What drug causes bleeding? correct answer: Aspirin
27. What does the 2nd premolar replace? correct answer: the 2nd
deciduous molar
28. What would you do for fordyce granules? correct answer: leave alone;
normal
29. is a bifurcated maxillary canine normal? correct answer: yes
30. What would you do for lingual erosion? correct answer: rinse with
sodium bicarbonate
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