Clinical Dental Hygiene
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Course Introduction
Clinical Dental Hygiene provides students with the foundational knowledge and hands-on skills necessary for comprehensive patient care in dental hygiene practice. The course emphasizes infection control, patient assessment, preventive services, instrumentation, oral health education, and the implementation of individualized care plans. Students gain experience in clinical settings, learning to perform procedures such as prophylaxis, scaling, polishing, fluoride treatments, and the application of sealants, while developing critical thinking and patient communication skills essential for professional dental hygienists.
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Oral Pathology for the Dental Hygienist 6th Edition by Olga A. C. Ibsen
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Preliminary Diagnosis of Oral
Lesions
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Q1) The radiographic appearance of a simple radicular cyst is best described as: A)coalescence.
B)diffuse.
C)multilocular.
D)unilocular.
Answer: D
Q2) Which one of the following conditions would most likely respond to therapeutic diagnosis?
A)Angular cheilitis
B)Amelogenesis imperfecta
C)Paget disease
D)Stafne bone cyst
Answer: A
Q3) A lesion with a stemlike base is described as: A)sessile.
B)macular.
C)pedunculated.
D)lobulated.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Inflammation and Repair
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Q1) The inflammatory response is a dynamic process, continually changing in response to injury and repair. Repair of tissue occurs only if the persistent source of injury is removed.
A)Both statements are true.
B)Both statements are false.
C)The first statement is true; the second is false.
D)The first statement is false; the second is true.
Answer: A
Q2) Aspirin burn to the oral mucosa appears as:
A)white.
B)pigmented.
C)bulbous.
D)papillary.
Answer: A
Q3) Hyperemia is responsible for which two clinical signs of inflammation?
A)Emigration and pain
B)Heat and erythema
C)Transudation and redness
D)Swelling and chemotaxis
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Immunity and Immunologic Oral Lesions
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Q1) Which one of the following is not a characteristic feature of pemphigus vulgaris?
A)Epithelial acantholysis
B)Bullae
C)Tzanck cells
D)Occurrence most commonly in females
Answer: D
Q2) A patient presents with a diffuse swelling of the upper lip caused by permeability of deeper blood vessels. The skin covering the swelling appears normal and not accompanied by itching. This is characteristic of what pathological condition?
A)Minor aphthous ulcer
B)Lichen planus
C)Angioedema
D)Sjögren syndrome
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Infectious Diseases
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Q1) Hyperplastic lymphoid tissue of the soft palate or tonsillar pillars appears as yellowish or dark pink nodules
A)Herpangina
B)Measles
C)Acute lymphonodular pharyngitis
D)Hairy leukoplakia
E)Hand-foot-and-mouth disease
F)Mumps
Q2) The most common type of candidiasis affecting the oral mucosa is the _____ type.
A)pseudomembranous
B)erythematous
C)chronic atrophic
D)chronic hyperplastic
Q3) Which of the following statements is not true about syphilis?
A)Dark-field examination may be used to diagnose syphilitic lesions on the skin.
B)Syphilis is generally treated with penicillin.
C)The VDRL and fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption (FTA-ABS) tests are commonly used to confirm the diagnosis of syphilis.
D)The antibody titer increases if treatment has been successful.
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Chapter 5: Developmental Disorders
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Q1) The only hypoplastic defect in a patient's dentition is located on the facial surface of a permanent maxillary central incisor. The most likely cause of this defect is:
A)a dietary deficiency during tooth formation.
B)absence of the primary mandibular central incisor.
C)physical injury of the primary maxillary central incisor.
D)neonatal hypoplasia of the primary anterior teeth.
Q2) Microdontia most commonly occurs in:
A)maxillary laterals and third molars.
B)maxillary canine.
C)mandibular molars.
D)mandibular incisors and molars.
Q3) Ingesting water with four times the amount of fluoride causes:
A)brown-to-black staining.
B)cusp fractures.
C)white spots on the middle third of smooth crowns.
D)increased dental caries.
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Chapter 6: Genetics
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Q1) The gap 2 (G<sub>2</sub>) phase of mitosis:
A)begins when mitotic division ends.
B)ends when mitotic division begins.
C)precedes the S phase.
D)is when replication of DNA takes place.
Q2) Inactivation of the genetic activity of one of the X chromosomes in each cell of a female embryo during the early period of embryonic development is referred to as:
A)Barr body.
B)nucleotide.
C)karyotype.
D)the Lyon hypothesis.
Q3) A patient with unilateral or bilateral aplasia of the clavicles will:
A)have hyperplastic paranasal sinuses.
B)have a short and wide neck.
C)have a mushroom shape of the cranium because of premature closure of the fontanelles.
D)be able to approximate his or her shoulders to the midline.
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Chapter 7: Neoplasia
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Q1) Which of the following statements about hemangiomas is true?
A)The gingiva is the most common intraoral location.
B)They are more common in boys than in girls.
C)They appear as variably sized, deep red or blue lesions that do not blanch when pressure is applied.
D)They may occur in adults as a response to trauma and represent an abnormal proliferation of blood vessels during the healing process.
Q2) All of the following are common warning signs of malignant neoplasms except one. Which one is the exception?
A)Leukoplakia
B)Bleeding
C)Erythroplakia
D)Pigmentation
Q3) Most cases of papilloma occur on the:
A)hard palate.
B)buccal mucosa.
C)soft palate or tongue.
D)retromolar area.
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Chapter 8: Nonneoplastic Diseases of Bone
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Q1) Paget disease of bone:
A)typically occurs in children under the age of 18.
B)is painless.
C)may reveal a "cotton-wool" appearance on radiographs.
D)results in shrinkage of affected bone.
Q2) Light brown skin macules associated with polyostotic fibrous dysplasia are referred to as:
A)Koplik spots.
B)café au lait spots.
C)brown tumors.
D)gritty tissue.
Q3) Cementoma is a term once used for periapical cemento-osseous dysplasia. Because the disease does not represent a neoplasm, cementoma has been replaced with periapical cemento-osseous dysplasia.
A)Both statements are true.
B)Both statements are false.
C)The first statement is true and the second is false.
D)The first statement is false and the second is true.
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Chapter 9: Oral Manifestations of Systemic Diseases
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Q1) Type A hemophilia is less common than type B hemophilia. Type A hemophilia is caused by a deficiency of the clotting factor called plasma thromboplastinogen or factor VIII.
A)Both statements are true.
B)Both statements are false.
C)The first statement is true; the second is false.
D)The first statement is false; the second is true.
Q2) _____ is characterized by insufficient production of adrenal steroids.
A)Addison disease
B)Addison syndrome
C)Cushing disease
D)Cushing syndrome
Q3) In aplastic anemia, patients experience a dramatic decrease in all the circulating blood cells because of a severe depression of bone marrow activity.
A)Both the statement and reason are correct and related.
B)Both the statement and reason are correct but not related.
C)The statement is correct, but the reason is not.
D)The statement is not correct, but the reason is correct.
E)Neither the statement nor the reason is correct.
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Chapter 10: Diseases Affecting the Temporomandibular
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Q1) Arthrography
A)Method for evaluating and manipulating a joint via the insertion of a camera and instruments
B)Dry, crackling sound
C)Surgical puncture of a joint followed by lavage of joint space
D)Physical examination using pressure of the hand or fingers
E)Inability to fully open the mouth
F)Radiography of a joint after injection of opaque contrast material
G)Noninvasive diagnostic technique that uses radio waves to produce computerized images of internal body tissues
H)Listening to sounds within the body, using a stethoscope
I)Subjective evidence of disease or a physical disorder that is observed by the patient
J)Objective evidence of disease that can be observed by a health care provider rather than by the patient
K)Joint
L)Induced inadvertently by a medical or dental care provider or by medical treatment or a diagnostic procedure
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