NBDHE – National Board Dental Hygiene Examination – Complete Study Guide
and Practice Review
D.H. Code of Ethics - ANS ✔✔To achieve high levels of ethical consciousness, decision making,
and practice by members of a profession
Core Values - ANS ✔✔Veracity, Autonomy, Beneficence, Justinc, Nonmaleficence,
Confidentiality, Societal Trust
Veracity - ANS ✔✔telling the truth
Autonomy - ANS ✔✔Deals with the patient. Patients have the right to informed consent. (SELF
DETERMINATION)
Beneficence - ANS ✔✔Includes promoting the w2ell-being of individuals and the public (DO
GOOD)
Justince - ANS ✔✔provides everyone access to high-quality, affordable Oral healthcare;
demonstrating impartiality (FAIRNESS)
Nonmaleficence - ANS ✔✔Deals with the practitioner. Providing services that protect all
patients from harm. (DO NO HARM)
Confidentiality - ANS ✔✔patient information and relationships
Societal Trust - ANS ✔✔Value patient trust. based on our actions and behaviors
,Civil Offense - ANS ✔✔lawsuits where most dental cases involved. The wrongful offense against
a person where satisfaction is sought ($).
Types of Civil law Contracts - ANS ✔✔Implied, Express, Between Practitioner and the Patient
Implied contract - ANS ✔✔an agreement made through inference by signs, inaction or silence
Express contract - ANS ✔✔oral or written agreement
Contract between practitioner and patient - ANS ✔✔Termination & Abandonment
Terminating patients - ANS ✔✔non-compliance and failure to pay (PRACTITIONER)
Abandonment - ANS ✔✔dismissal of patient without ample and proper notice (PATIENT)
Civil Law Torts - ANS ✔✔Intentional torts & unintentional torts
Intentional torts - ANS ✔✔Assault, Battery, Deceit and misrepresentation, Defamation, Invasion
of property
Assault - ANS ✔✔Threatening bodily harm
Battery - ANS ✔✔Causing bodily harm. performing procedure without permission falls into this
category
Defamation - ANS ✔✔damaging a person's reputation. includes libel & slander
,Libel - ANS ✔✔written defamation (L=Library)
Slander - ANS ✔✔Verbal defamation (S=Spoken)
Invasion of property - ANS ✔✔Patient's body is the property
Unintentional torts - ANS ✔✔Negligence, Standard of Care and Duty
Negligence - ANS ✔✔failure to do what a reasonable person would do. ie) inst. breaks and you
don't tell the patient
O.S.H.A. - ANS ✔✔Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHA - ANS ✔✔Responsible for developing universal/standard precaution protocols for
employees to prevent them from contracting disease through blood and/or other body fluids.
Protects the employee (worker)
H.I.P.A.A. - ANS ✔✔Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HIPAA - ANS ✔✔maintains patient confidentialilty. should be signed once unless changes are
made or the govt. makes changes to HIPAA policy. Office gives copy of HIPAA to pt. every 3 years
C.D.C. - ANS ✔✔Center for disease control
CDC - ANS ✔✔located in Atlanta, Ga. provides guidelines for disease prevention and disease
transmission
C.O.B.R.A. - ANS ✔✔Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
, COBRA - ANS ✔✔keep group health insurance for 18 mo. applies if person has reduced work
hours, quits, or loses job. provides coverage for spouse & dependent children.
Informed Consent - ANS ✔✔presented in understandable language, nature and needs of
procedure, benefits/risks of procedure, prognosis, alt to procedure, patient is allowed to ask
questions
Statue of limitations - ANS ✔✔time frame within which legal action may be taken . Varies from
state to state and type of lawsuit. No specific amount of years.
Dental records - ANS ✔✔documentation of complete data
Ownership of dental records - ANS ✔✔dentist owns the paper on which records are printed.
Patient owns the information. It is OK for dentist to charge a reasonable fee to transfer records
even if there is a balance due on the account.
Cranial Nerve I - ANS ✔✔Olfactory
Cranial Nerve II - ANS ✔✔Optic
Cranial Nerve III - ANS ✔✔Oculomotor
Cranial Nerve IV - ANS ✔✔Trochlear
Cranial Nerve V - ANS ✔✔Trigeminal
Cranial Nerve VI - ANS ✔✔Abducans
and Practice Review
D.H. Code of Ethics - ANS ✔✔To achieve high levels of ethical consciousness, decision making,
and practice by members of a profession
Core Values - ANS ✔✔Veracity, Autonomy, Beneficence, Justinc, Nonmaleficence,
Confidentiality, Societal Trust
Veracity - ANS ✔✔telling the truth
Autonomy - ANS ✔✔Deals with the patient. Patients have the right to informed consent. (SELF
DETERMINATION)
Beneficence - ANS ✔✔Includes promoting the w2ell-being of individuals and the public (DO
GOOD)
Justince - ANS ✔✔provides everyone access to high-quality, affordable Oral healthcare;
demonstrating impartiality (FAIRNESS)
Nonmaleficence - ANS ✔✔Deals with the practitioner. Providing services that protect all
patients from harm. (DO NO HARM)
Confidentiality - ANS ✔✔patient information and relationships
Societal Trust - ANS ✔✔Value patient trust. based on our actions and behaviors
,Civil Offense - ANS ✔✔lawsuits where most dental cases involved. The wrongful offense against
a person where satisfaction is sought ($).
Types of Civil law Contracts - ANS ✔✔Implied, Express, Between Practitioner and the Patient
Implied contract - ANS ✔✔an agreement made through inference by signs, inaction or silence
Express contract - ANS ✔✔oral or written agreement
Contract between practitioner and patient - ANS ✔✔Termination & Abandonment
Terminating patients - ANS ✔✔non-compliance and failure to pay (PRACTITIONER)
Abandonment - ANS ✔✔dismissal of patient without ample and proper notice (PATIENT)
Civil Law Torts - ANS ✔✔Intentional torts & unintentional torts
Intentional torts - ANS ✔✔Assault, Battery, Deceit and misrepresentation, Defamation, Invasion
of property
Assault - ANS ✔✔Threatening bodily harm
Battery - ANS ✔✔Causing bodily harm. performing procedure without permission falls into this
category
Defamation - ANS ✔✔damaging a person's reputation. includes libel & slander
,Libel - ANS ✔✔written defamation (L=Library)
Slander - ANS ✔✔Verbal defamation (S=Spoken)
Invasion of property - ANS ✔✔Patient's body is the property
Unintentional torts - ANS ✔✔Negligence, Standard of Care and Duty
Negligence - ANS ✔✔failure to do what a reasonable person would do. ie) inst. breaks and you
don't tell the patient
O.S.H.A. - ANS ✔✔Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHA - ANS ✔✔Responsible for developing universal/standard precaution protocols for
employees to prevent them from contracting disease through blood and/or other body fluids.
Protects the employee (worker)
H.I.P.A.A. - ANS ✔✔Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HIPAA - ANS ✔✔maintains patient confidentialilty. should be signed once unless changes are
made or the govt. makes changes to HIPAA policy. Office gives copy of HIPAA to pt. every 3 years
C.D.C. - ANS ✔✔Center for disease control
CDC - ANS ✔✔located in Atlanta, Ga. provides guidelines for disease prevention and disease
transmission
C.O.B.R.A. - ANS ✔✔Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
, COBRA - ANS ✔✔keep group health insurance for 18 mo. applies if person has reduced work
hours, quits, or loses job. provides coverage for spouse & dependent children.
Informed Consent - ANS ✔✔presented in understandable language, nature and needs of
procedure, benefits/risks of procedure, prognosis, alt to procedure, patient is allowed to ask
questions
Statue of limitations - ANS ✔✔time frame within which legal action may be taken . Varies from
state to state and type of lawsuit. No specific amount of years.
Dental records - ANS ✔✔documentation of complete data
Ownership of dental records - ANS ✔✔dentist owns the paper on which records are printed.
Patient owns the information. It is OK for dentist to charge a reasonable fee to transfer records
even if there is a balance due on the account.
Cranial Nerve I - ANS ✔✔Olfactory
Cranial Nerve II - ANS ✔✔Optic
Cranial Nerve III - ANS ✔✔Oculomotor
Cranial Nerve IV - ANS ✔✔Trochlear
Cranial Nerve V - ANS ✔✔Trigeminal
Cranial Nerve VI - ANS ✔✔Abducans
