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What tooth is the lower right first bicuspid? - answers Tooth # 28
What is the rubber dam clamp that is only used on anterior teeth? - answers Double
Bow
Teeth #'s 23, 24,25,and 26 are what? - answers Lower centrals and Laterals
What is the tooth that touched the distal part of tooth # 20? - answers The mesial of
tooth # 19
What is the way to protect yourself from overexposure to x-ray's? - answers Step out of
the room while x-ray is being taken
Why might a tooth die and need a root canal? - answers Traumatic blow, extensive
decay, mechanical exposure, and chemical irritation
Some useful tests on teeth to determine if a tooth needs a root canal include: - answers
Percussion (tapping), Thermal (hot and cold), and electric pulp tests
What is the cement that must be mixed slowly on a glass slab? - answers Zinc
Phosphate
According to the Angle's classification of occlusion, what is the normal jaw position
classified as? - answers Class I
What are some good liners (base) under amalgams that help prevent sensitivity? -
answers Vitrebond, copalite, dycal, and glass ionomer
What are two instruments that used to carve an amalgam after it has been condensed
(packed)? - answers Cleoid-Discoid, and Interproximal
What is used to transport the filling material to the mouth for placement? - answers
Amalgam carrier
,What is the next step after the soft composite material is placed in the cavity? - answers
Harden the composite with the curing light
What is the usual method to clean work surfaces? - answers Disinfection
In endo, what is the temporary material commonly used called? - answers Cavit
Acrylic (Plastic) Temporary - answers Temp Bond
Metal Shell Temporary - answers IRM
Permanent Crown - answers RMGI or Zinc Phosphate cement
What is the part of a bridge replacing the missing tooth called? - answers Pontic
What is the form submitted to an insurance company for determining what benefits an
insurance company will pay BEFORE the treatment? - answers Pre-Estimate (Pre-
Determination)
What are ADA Codes? - answers They are used to identify for the insurance company
the procedure done to the patient
What is the form which the patient fills out describing the medical conditions and
possible allergies? - answers Health History Form
What is an endo instrument with barb-like fishhooks on the shaft? - answers Broach
What uses steam and heat to kill germs and usually takes 15-30 minutes to complete
it's cycle? - answers Autoclave Sterilizer
What are noted on a tooth diagram charting of the patient are marked with a circle at the
apex or a red line drawn through the root of the tooth? - answers Teeth that need a root-
canal
What are a Cord Packer, diamonds, wax bite, counter impressions, temporaries, and an
impression syringe commonly used in? - answers Crown and Bridge
What is the universal upper arch extraction instrument? - answers 150 Forceps
What have sharp, triangular points on the end and are useful in removing root stumps? -
answers Cryer Elevators
What have a spoon shaped end and separates the gums from the underlying bone? -
answers Periosteal Elevator
,What looks like a screwdriver and are used to loosen tooth? - answers 301, 46, & 34
Elevators
After an extraction, why are gauze and ice packs placed? - answers Mainly to stop
bleeding and reduce the swelling
Scalers have what kind of tips? - answers Pointed
Curettes have what kind of tips? - answers Rounded tips
After crowns are seated or fillings are completed, what is the next step? - answers
Check the bite with the articulating paper
Using the rubber dam clamp during endo treatment is necessary to: - answers Prevent
instruments from being swallowed or aspirated into the lungs, To keep saliva from re-
contaminating the tooth, and to keep the irritating solutions out of the patients mouth
what is the instrument used for composite placement? - answers Plastic instruments
What is used during a certain dental procedure to disinfect and flush debris from a canal
during endo? - answers Sodium Hypochlorite (Clorox)
What is needed for rubber dam placement? - answers Rubber dam, punch, clamp,
floss, clamp forceps, and frame
___ can be a dental assistant, hygienist, or dental lab tech? - answers Dental Auxiliary
What is an individual that has been examined and diagnosed by the dentist and has had
a treatment planned? - answers Patient of record
___ is the level of supervision where the dentist is in the room at the time of treatment. -
answers Direct supervision
What are specific intraoral functions delegated to an auxiliary that require increased skill
and training? - answers Expanded functions
What is a legal doctrine that hold the employer liable for the acts of the employee? -
answers Respondeat Superior
_____ specifies the legal requirements for an individual to practice dentistry in the state
- answers The State Dental Practice Set
_____ is an agency that adopts rules and regulations and implements the State Dental
Act - answers The Board of Dentistry
What gives the person the legal right to practice in a specific state? - answers Licensure
, What is the category of law that deals with the relations of individuals or corporations? -
answers Civil Law
What is a system that allows individuals in one state to obtain a license in another state
without retesting? - answers Reciprocity
What is it called when a dentist terminated the dentist-patient relationship without
reasonable notice to the patient? - answers Abandonment
What is just, proper, and sufficient care, or the absence of negligence? - answers Due
care
What deals with a violation against the state or government? - answers Criminal Law
___ is a level of supervision in which the dentist gives instructions, but does not need to
be in the same room at the time the expanded function is preformed - answers General
supervision
___ is a means of professional negligence - answers Malpractice
What is the patient's action indicating consent for treatment? - answers Implied consent
What do binding agreements involve? - answers Contract Law
A contract that may be verbal or written is called what? - answers Expressed Contract
A contract that is established by actions, not words, is called what? - answers Implied
contract
What involves a written explanation of the diagnostic findings, the prescribe treatment,
and the reasonable expectations as to the result of the treatment? - answers Written
Consent
What includes proper nutrition and a plaque-control system? - answers Preventative
Dentistry
___ is a coloring agent applied to teeth to make plaque visible - answers Disclosing
Agent
What is a coating that covers the occlusal pits and fissures? - answers Dental sealents
Fluoride that is ingested and circulated throughout the body is called what? - answers
Systemic Fluoride
What is fluoride that is directly applied to the teeth? - answers Topical Fluoride