Dental Hygiene Prometric Exam Questions
With Correct Solutions 2025\2026 A+ Grade.
What is an oral side effect of Prozac?
- accurate answer-xerostomia
How do steroids effect wound healing?
- accurate answer-causes delayed wound healing
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?
- accurate answer-refer the patient to their physician immediately
Premedication regimine
- accurate answer-2g Amoxicillin
600 mg Clindamycin
Patient comes in for appointment who needs premed, and they took 300 mg 1
hour prior to their appointment. What would you do?
- accurate answer-administer another 300 mg and wait 1 hr prior to
treatment (because their clindamycin premed is 600mg 1hr prior to
treatment)
What is a PAN used for?
- accurate answer-- look at location of 3rd molars
- impactions
- pathology
- NOT FOR BONE LOSS
Items containing fluoride?
- accurate answer-- tea
- pork
- fish
What type of water does not contain fluoride?
- accurate answer-well water
, Know the papilla of the tongue
- accurate 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)
What is hairy tongue caused by?
- accurate answer-elongation of the filiform papillae
Delayed eruption may be caused by
- accurate answer-delayed exfoliation
Identify mandibular canal radiographically
- accurate answer-radiolucent, long dark area outlined with dense cortical
bone, located above or parallel to the inferior border of the mandible
What is thickened lamina dura caused by? is this appearance normal?
- accurate answer-- caused by trauma
- not normal
Know film errors
- accurate answer-- elongation: too little vertical angulation
- foreshortening: too much vertical angulation
- cone cut: PID not aligned with censor
- overlap: incorrect horizontal angulation
Identify median rhomboid glossitis
- accurate answer-rhombus shaped, central denuded area of the tongue with
red appearance
What is the treatment for black hair tongue?
- accurate answer-brush it
What is a vitality test used for?
- accurate 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)
With Correct Solutions 2025\2026 A+ Grade.
What is an oral side effect of Prozac?
- accurate answer-xerostomia
How do steroids effect wound healing?
- accurate answer-causes delayed wound healing
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?
- accurate answer-refer the patient to their physician immediately
Premedication regimine
- accurate answer-2g Amoxicillin
600 mg Clindamycin
Patient comes in for appointment who needs premed, and they took 300 mg 1
hour prior to their appointment. What would you do?
- accurate answer-administer another 300 mg and wait 1 hr prior to
treatment (because their clindamycin premed is 600mg 1hr prior to
treatment)
What is a PAN used for?
- accurate answer-- look at location of 3rd molars
- impactions
- pathology
- NOT FOR BONE LOSS
Items containing fluoride?
- accurate answer-- tea
- pork
- fish
What type of water does not contain fluoride?
- accurate answer-well water
, Know the papilla of the tongue
- accurate 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)
What is hairy tongue caused by?
- accurate answer-elongation of the filiform papillae
Delayed eruption may be caused by
- accurate answer-delayed exfoliation
Identify mandibular canal radiographically
- accurate answer-radiolucent, long dark area outlined with dense cortical
bone, located above or parallel to the inferior border of the mandible
What is thickened lamina dura caused by? is this appearance normal?
- accurate answer-- caused by trauma
- not normal
Know film errors
- accurate answer-- elongation: too little vertical angulation
- foreshortening: too much vertical angulation
- cone cut: PID not aligned with censor
- overlap: incorrect horizontal angulation
Identify median rhomboid glossitis
- accurate answer-rhombus shaped, central denuded area of the tongue with
red appearance
What is the treatment for black hair tongue?
- accurate answer-brush it
What is a vitality test used for?
- accurate 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)
