DENTAL ASSISTING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
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✔✔Centric Occlusion - ✔✔Maximum contact between occluding surfaces of the
maxillary and mandibular teeth
✔✔Functional Occlusion - ✔✔Contact of the teeth during biting and chewing
movements
✔✔Malocclusion - ✔✔Occlusion that is deviated from class I normal occlusion
✔✔Interproximal Space - ✔✔Area between adjacent tooth surfaces
✔✔Furcation - ✔✔Area between two or more root branches
✔✔Fossa - ✔✔Wide, shallow depression on lingual surfaces of anterior teeth
✔✔Erosion - ✔✔Wearing away of tissue
✔✔Lesion - ✔✔Area of pathology
✔✔Xerostomia - ✔✔Dryness of the mouth caused by reduction of saliva
✔✔Abscess - ✔✔Localized area of pus originating from an infection
✔✔Hazardous Waste - ✔✔Waste the poses a danger to humans or to the environment
✔✔Anaphylaxis - ✔✔Extreme hypersensitivity to a substance that can lead to shock
and life-threatining respiratory collapse
✔✔ Torus Palatinus - ✔✔A bony overgrowth at the midline of the hard palate
✔✔Torus Mandibularis - ✔✔A bony overgrowth on the lingal surface of the mandible
near the premolars and molar areas
✔✔Impaction - ✔✔Any tooth that remains unerupted in the jaws beyond the time at
which it should normally erupt
✔✔Anatomic Crown - ✔✔Portion of the tooth that is covered with enamel
✔✔Clinical Crown - ✔✔Portion of the tooth that is visible in the oral cavity
✔✔Cervix - ✔✔The location where the crown of the tooth and its roots meet
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✔✔Centric Occlusion - ✔✔Maximum contact between occluding surfaces of the
maxillary and mandibular teeth
✔✔Functional Occlusion - ✔✔Contact of the teeth during biting and chewing
movements
✔✔Malocclusion - ✔✔Occlusion that is deviated from class I normal occlusion
✔✔Interproximal Space - ✔✔Area between adjacent tooth surfaces
✔✔Furcation - ✔✔Area between two or more root branches
✔✔Fossa - ✔✔Wide, shallow depression on lingual surfaces of anterior teeth
✔✔Erosion - ✔✔Wearing away of tissue
✔✔Lesion - ✔✔Area of pathology
✔✔Xerostomia - ✔✔Dryness of the mouth caused by reduction of saliva
✔✔Abscess - ✔✔Localized area of pus originating from an infection
✔✔Hazardous Waste - ✔✔Waste the poses a danger to humans or to the environment
✔✔Anaphylaxis - ✔✔Extreme hypersensitivity to a substance that can lead to shock
and life-threatining respiratory collapse
✔✔ Torus Palatinus - ✔✔A bony overgrowth at the midline of the hard palate
✔✔Torus Mandibularis - ✔✔A bony overgrowth on the lingal surface of the mandible
near the premolars and molar areas
✔✔Impaction - ✔✔Any tooth that remains unerupted in the jaws beyond the time at
which it should normally erupt
✔✔Anatomic Crown - ✔✔Portion of the tooth that is covered with enamel
✔✔Clinical Crown - ✔✔Portion of the tooth that is visible in the oral cavity
✔✔Cervix - ✔✔The location where the crown of the tooth and its roots meet
