HESI DENTAL HYGIENE ACTUAL EXAM |135 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
EXPERT SOLUTIONS | 2026 LATEST UPDATED | GET A+
1. OSHA: Federal agency that enforces workplace safety?
2. yes: OSHA is a regulatory agency - yes or no?
3. CDC Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Healthcare Settings: What CDC document impacts INFECTION
CONTROL and prevention in dentistry?
4. CDC: Agency that developed infection control guidelines for healthcare settings.
5. OSHA: Which agency protects EMPLOYEES by improving ENGENNERING controls and enforcing PPE?
6. EPA: Agency that regulates disposal of hazardous materials like medical and chemical waste.
7. EPA: Agency that regulates registration of chemical germicides used for healthcare.
8. FDA: Agency that ensures safety and effectiveness of food, cosmetics, drugs, and medical devices.
9. Hazardous waste AND Hospital antimicrobial disinfectant registrations: EPA document impacting infection control
and prevention in dentistry.
10. FDA: Agency that regulates the manufacturing and labeling of medical devices.
11. Regulated Waste: Type of waste with potential for disease transmission requiring special handling and disposal.
12. Sharps, blood or items soaked in blood, tissues, and extracted teeth.: What are examples of regulated waste?
13. Non-regulated Waste: Type of waste including all other disposable items other than sharps, tissues, extracted
teeth, and blood-soaked items.
14. Cups, gloves, saliva ejectors.: What are examples of ubregulated waste?
15. Sharps: Items that can penetrate the skin and other tissues.
, 16. Sharps Container: Puncture-resistant containers for disposal of sharp items that could puncture skin.
17. Sharps containers must be closable, puncture resistant leak proof and labeled with a BIOHAZARD SYMBOL.
The CDC recommend that they can be
located anywhere in the dental office: The first statement is true the second is false
18. Direct Contact: Mode of transmission requiring person-to-person body contact with blood, oral fluids, or other
patient material.
19. Indirect contact: Which mode of transmission spreads disease agents through FOMITES?
20. Indirect contact: A person cuts themselves with a contaminated needle. this is an example of what type of mode
of transportation?
21. Nasal and eye membranes or oral mucosa via droplets: Which mode of transmission
spreads disease agents from person to person, typically through RESPIRATORY DROPLETS from coughing,
sneezing, or talking?
22 Inhalation: A mode of transmission where disease agents are spread by inhaling airborne microorganisms (aerosols).
23. Fecal-oral transmission: A mode of transmission that spreads disease through contaminated food or water.
24. Droplets are larger (>50um), while aerosols are smaller in size (<50um); we can most of the time see droplets
while aerosols are difficult to see: What is the difference between inhalation transmission and droplet transmission?
25. Droplet transmission: Transmission of disease agents through larger droplets (>50um) that can be seen.
26. Aerosols: Airborne microorganisms that are smaller in size (<50um) and are difficult to see.
27. Conditions for disease-organism transmission: Pathogenic organism of sufficient virulence and in adequate
numbers
28. Standard Precautions: The term that states healthcare personnel must follow the same protocol for all patients,
regardless of infectious status or health history.
EXPERT SOLUTIONS | 2026 LATEST UPDATED | GET A+
1. OSHA: Federal agency that enforces workplace safety?
2. yes: OSHA is a regulatory agency - yes or no?
3. CDC Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Healthcare Settings: What CDC document impacts INFECTION
CONTROL and prevention in dentistry?
4. CDC: Agency that developed infection control guidelines for healthcare settings.
5. OSHA: Which agency protects EMPLOYEES by improving ENGENNERING controls and enforcing PPE?
6. EPA: Agency that regulates disposal of hazardous materials like medical and chemical waste.
7. EPA: Agency that regulates registration of chemical germicides used for healthcare.
8. FDA: Agency that ensures safety and effectiveness of food, cosmetics, drugs, and medical devices.
9. Hazardous waste AND Hospital antimicrobial disinfectant registrations: EPA document impacting infection control
and prevention in dentistry.
10. FDA: Agency that regulates the manufacturing and labeling of medical devices.
11. Regulated Waste: Type of waste with potential for disease transmission requiring special handling and disposal.
12. Sharps, blood or items soaked in blood, tissues, and extracted teeth.: What are examples of regulated waste?
13. Non-regulated Waste: Type of waste including all other disposable items other than sharps, tissues, extracted
teeth, and blood-soaked items.
14. Cups, gloves, saliva ejectors.: What are examples of ubregulated waste?
15. Sharps: Items that can penetrate the skin and other tissues.
, 16. Sharps Container: Puncture-resistant containers for disposal of sharp items that could puncture skin.
17. Sharps containers must be closable, puncture resistant leak proof and labeled with a BIOHAZARD SYMBOL.
The CDC recommend that they can be
located anywhere in the dental office: The first statement is true the second is false
18. Direct Contact: Mode of transmission requiring person-to-person body contact with blood, oral fluids, or other
patient material.
19. Indirect contact: Which mode of transmission spreads disease agents through FOMITES?
20. Indirect contact: A person cuts themselves with a contaminated needle. this is an example of what type of mode
of transportation?
21. Nasal and eye membranes or oral mucosa via droplets: Which mode of transmission
spreads disease agents from person to person, typically through RESPIRATORY DROPLETS from coughing,
sneezing, or talking?
22 Inhalation: A mode of transmission where disease agents are spread by inhaling airborne microorganisms (aerosols).
23. Fecal-oral transmission: A mode of transmission that spreads disease through contaminated food or water.
24. Droplets are larger (>50um), while aerosols are smaller in size (<50um); we can most of the time see droplets
while aerosols are difficult to see: What is the difference between inhalation transmission and droplet transmission?
25. Droplet transmission: Transmission of disease agents through larger droplets (>50um) that can be seen.
26. Aerosols: Airborne microorganisms that are smaller in size (<50um) and are difficult to see.
27. Conditions for disease-organism transmission: Pathogenic organism of sufficient virulence and in adequate
numbers
28. Standard Precautions: The term that states healthcare personnel must follow the same protocol for all patients,
regardless of infectious status or health history.
