Behavioral Sciences in Dentistry
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Behavioral Sciences in Dentistry explores the psychological, sociocultural, and behavioral factors that influence oral health, patient care, and dental practice. This course examines topics such as patient communication, motivation, and compliance, as well as the impact of stress, pain management, and behavioral interventions on dental treatment outcomes. Students will gain an understanding of how individual and group behaviors affect oral health status, learn strategies for effective patient interactions, and develop skills to address diverse patient backgrounds and needs within the dental setting.
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Dental Public Health and Research 4th Edition by Christine N. Nathe
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Chapter 1: Dental Public Health: An Overview
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Q1) Dental public health functions need to be secured and implemented across all areas to ensure the same level of ________.
A) Coverage
B) Quality
C) Performance
D) All of the above
E) None of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Dental public health is a component of ________.
A) Public Affairs
B) Public Relations
C) Public Health
D) Community Affairs
E) Both A and D
Answer: C
Q3) There is a critical shortage of dental assistants in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Prevention Movement
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Q1) Over the past decade, most states have expanded the scope of which type of practice?
A) Dentistry
B) Dental hygiene
C) Dental therapy
D) Community dental health coordinators
Answer: B
Q2) Tobacco cessation programs emphasize which step(s) of intervention?
A) Prescribing antidepressants as needed
B) Describing the relationship between periodontal disease and smoking
C) Asking patients about their tobacco use
D) Describing the relationship between dental caries and smoking
E) Both B and C
Answer: C
Q3) Dental hygienists provide diagnostic and therapeutic services aimed at attaining and maintaining oral health.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Dental Care Delivery in the United States
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Q1) Which program is the largest effort to provide health insurance for children since Medicaid?
A) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
B) U.S. Surgeon General's Office
C) Public Health Service
D) Children's Health Insurance Program
E) None of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Which sectors are included in the dental care delivery system in the United States?
A) Private sector
B) Federal government
C) State government
D) All of the above
E) None of the above
Answer: D
Q3) Dental hygienists may practice within the U.S. Peace Corps.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Dental Hygiene Care Delivery in the Global Community
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Q1) After dental hygiene began in the United States, Spain recorded one of the earliest histories of establishing the profession of dental hygiene.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The World Health Organization (WHO) is a self-governing, multilateral entity that developed the ________.
A) International Federation of Dental Hygienists
B) Shepherd's Hook Explorer
C) Global Oral Data Bank
D) Federation Dentaire International
E) None of the above
Q3) Which dental organization is recognized as one of the oldest health organizations?
A) International Federation of Dental Hygienists
B) Federation Dentaire Internationale
C) World Dental Organization
D) International Dental Association
E) None of the above
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Chapter 5: Financing of Dental Care
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Q1) Which payment method is a fee scale per service developed for each service rendered?
A) Capitation
B) Encounter
C) Barter
D) Fee for service
Q2) Medicaid, not Medicare, generally funds dental care for the indigent population.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The federal government funds dental care for which of the following target populations?
A) Veterans with service-connected disabilities
B) Military personnel
C) Inmates
D) Native Americans
E) All of the above
Q4) The delivery of dental care in the United States is mostly a private sector endeavor.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Federal and State Legislation Affecting Dental
Hygiene Practice
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Q1) Which law is created by the courts via judicial decision and can be changed by the courts (it contains notions of common sense and precedent)?
A) Constitutional
B) Statutory
C) Common
D) Administrative
E) None of the above
Q2) Many times a bill will "die" in a committee, only to have the most vital ideas added to a totally different bill.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which branch of government carries out the enacted laws?
A) Executive
B) Administrative
C) Legislative
D) Judicial
E) None of the above
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Chapter 7: Advocacy for Dental Care
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Q1) A request for proposal is released by an agency when funding is available for specific ________.
A) Research or programs
B) MOUs
C) Partnership building
D) Coalition building
E) Both C and D
Q2) A common action in a collaborative relationship includes ________
A) Networking
B) Management
C) Lobbying
D) Selling
E) Both A and B
Q3) An example of a local policy may be advocating for a community preventive dental program.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Change is recognized as an evolution from one state to another state.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Dental Health Education and Promotion
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Q1) What occurs when an individual gains control over his/her environment?
A) Social molding
B) Imitation
C) Modeling
D) Competence
E) None of above
Q2) The five-dimensional health model includes all of the following except ________.
A) Emotional
B) Mental
C) Psychological
D) Spiritual
E) Physical
Q3) This theory suggests that individuals become conditioned to specific stimuli to act in a specific way.
A)Self-determination theory
B)Modeling behavior
C)Empowerment
D)Classical conditioning
E)Operant conditioning
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Chapter 9: Lesson Plan Development
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Q1) The lowest level of learning is ________.
A) Problem solving
B) Affective
C) Application
D) Knowledge
E) None of the above
Q2) What characteristic(s) is (are) common in effective teachers?
A) Ability to interact
B) Enthusiastic
C) Knowledgeable
D) Flexible
E) All of the above
Q3) Which of the following is a (are) characteristic(s) of an effective teacher?
A) Ability to interact
B) Prepared
C) Organized
D) Flexible
E) All of the above
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Chapter 10: Target Populations
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Q1) Women who are pregnant present with a variety of oral health needs, including which of the following?
A) Changes in oral health because of pregnancy
B) Education in the care of their infant's oral health needs
C) Education in denture care
D) Both A and B
E) All of the above
Q2) With which age group is it most appropriate to discuss halitosis?
A) Teenagers
B) Day care workers caring for infants
C) Older adults
D) Preschoolers
E) Both A and B
Q3) A two-year-old child with severe stages of early childhood caries who has Medicaid insurance may face which barriers to care?
A) Severity of the dental disease
B) Age
C) Lack of qualified practitioners accepting Medicaid insurance
D) None of above
E) All of the above
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Chapter 11: Cultural Competency
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Q1) Health care workers have a major responsibility to be ________.
A) Culturally sensitive
B) Ethnocentric
C) Pluralistic
D) Both A and B
E) All of the above
Q2) Minority populations are still underrepresented in the health professions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the belief that one's own culture is better than other cultures?
A) Ethnocentrism
B) Ethnocultural
C) Cross-cultural
D) Blind spot
E) None of the above
Q4) The provider who is ethnocentric tends to antagonize and alienate patients from other cultures.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Program Planning
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Q1) Program planning is more than just planning a program; it encompasses the entire dental hygiene process of care.
A)True
B)False
Q2) During which stage does the dental hygienist prioritize needs?
A) Evaluation
B) Assessment
C) Implementation
D) Dental hygiene diagnosis
E) Both A and B
Q3) During which stage does the dental hygienist develop a blueprint?
A) Planning
B) Dental hygiene diagnosis
C) Implementation
D) Evaluation
E) Assessment
Q4) The Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors uses a six-step model to plan an effective program.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Program Evaluation
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Q1) The BSS is the Basic Screening Survey developed by the American Dental Hygienists' Association.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Both caries experience and complete tooth loss are specific indicators of dental disease.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The LPA assesses ________.
A) Gingival bleeding
B) Loss of periodontal attachment
C) Loss of gingival attachment
D) Gingival bleeding and inflammation
E) Both A and D
Q4) A dental index should have which characteristic(s)?
A) Sensitivity
B) Quantifiability
C) Objectivity
D) Clarity
E) All of the above
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Chapter 14: Research in Dental Hygiene
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Q1) Obtains informed consent for treatment
A)Writes research proposal
B)Conducts literature review
C)Develops research question or hypothesis
D)Conducts research
E)Obtains informed consent and research funding
F)Analyzes and publishes research results
G)Takes survey or makes observations about a population
Q2) Makes diagnosis
A)Writes research proposal
B)Conducts literature review
C)Develops research question or hypothesis
D)Conducts research
E)Obtains informed consent and research funding
F)Analyzes and publishes research results
G)Takes survey or makes observations about a population
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Chapter 15: Ethical Principles in Research
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Q1) Informed consent, another ethical consideration, requires educating a subject in a research study about the study's purpose, duration, experimental procedures, alternatives, risks, and benefits.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An institutional review board should include which roles?
A) Ensures that the rights and safety of the research subjects are respected and protected
B) Protects the institution and the researchers against lawsuits
C) Holds the researchers accountable to the public
D) All of the above
Q3) As a result of the Belmont Report, medical research became a slow, laborious process with many checks and balances to protect human subjects.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Government entities such as the state department review research conducted in the private sector.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: The Research Process
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Q1) Which type of approach describes and interprets current events or situations?
A) Ex post facto
B) Descriptive
C) Case cohort
D) Case control
E) None of the above
Q2) A time series design measures the dependent variable and is done several times over a period of time.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One population group with a common characteristic
A)Case report
B)Descriptive approach
C)Case study
D)Historical approach
E)Cohort
Q4) In a posttest-only design, the independent variable is introducing and then the dependent variable is measured.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Biostatistics
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Q1) What involves the application of statistical tests to the data in order to organize, describe, summarize, and analyze it to answer a research question or test a hypothesis?
A) Causality
B) Data interpretation
C) Data assessment
D) Data analysis
E) Both A and D
Q2) The median is the ________.
A) Average
B) Most frequently occurring value
C) Midpoint
D) Both A and B
E) All of the above
Q3) The mean is commonly considered to be the ________.
A) Most frequently occurring value
B) Midpoint
C) Average
D) Both A and B
E) All of the above
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Chapter 18: Oral Epidemiology
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Q1) A numerical expression of the number of all existing cases of a disease or condition measured at a given period of time
A)Morbidity
B)Endemic
C)Epidemic
D)Pandemic
E)Validity
F)Index
G)Incidence
H)Epidemiology
I)Prevalence
J)Disease rates
K)Mortality
L)Causality
M)Etiology
N)Risk factors
O)Reliability
P)Surveillance
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Chapter 19: Current Oral Epidemiological Findings
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Q1) Causes toothache pain
A)Dental sealants
B)Candidiasis
C)Teenagers
D)Oral cancer
E)Herpes simplex virus
F)Systemic diseases
G)Epidemiology
H)Community water fluoridation
I)Adults
J)Gingivitis
K)Posterior teeth
L)Recurrent aphthous ulcer
M)Anterior teeth
N)Cleft lip/palate
O)Dental caries
P)Endemic
Q2) Bacterial plaque converts all foods, especially sugar, into acid.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: Evaluation of Scientific Literature and Dental Products
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Q1) An example of a peer-reviewed journal is the ________.
A) Journal of Practical Hygiene
B) Journal of Dental Hygiene
C) International Journal of Dental Hygiene
D) Both A and B
E) All of the above
Q2) Which of the following parts of a research report should include a detailed description of the research instruments, equipment, procedures, and method of data analysis?
A) Methods and materials
B) Literature review
C) Introduction
D) Results
E) Conclusion
Q3) A dental hygienist should recommend products based on the ADA Seal.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The number of examiners should be fairly large to ensure calibration.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: Careers in Dental Public Health
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Q1) Dental hygienist treating naval aviators
A)Independent contractor on a military base
B)National Health Service Corps hygienist
C)Federal prison
D)Civil servant in a VA hospital
E)Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Q2) The U.S. PHS is led by the ________.
A) President
B) Secretary of Health and Human Services
C) Surgeon General
D) Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
E) None of the above
Q3) The COSTEP program is part of which agency?
A) Institute of Medicine
B) Bureau of Prisons
C) National Civil Corps
D) Public Health Service
E) None of the above
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Chapter 22: Strategies for Creating Dental Hygiene
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Q1) A diagram that describes a program plan with a detailed budget is called a
A) Program diagram
B) Blueprint
C) Planning theorem
D) None of the above
E) Both A and B
Q2) Resolving conflicts is a mandatory management skill for the dental hygienist.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Doing the actual work of the business is called ________.
A) Marketing
B) Personnel
C) Operations
D) Sales
E) All of the above
Q4) Homebound residents may have difficulty accessing dental hygiene care in the United States.
A)True
B)False
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