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Course Introduction
Community Dentistry focuses on the study and application of dental science in the promotion of oral health at the population level. The course covers topics such as the epidemiology of dental diseases, oral health policy and program planning, preventive dentistry, health education, and the social and environmental factors influencing oral health outcomes. Students learn how to assess the dental needs of communities, design and implement community-based oral health initiatives, and evaluate the effectiveness of public health interventions. Emphasis is placed on the role of dentists in health promotion, disease prevention, and reducing health disparities among different population groups.
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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) Which of the following involves making certain that all populations have access to appropriate and cost-effective services to read agreed-upon public health goals?
A) Assessment
B) Policy Development
C) Assurance
D) Serving All Functions
E) None of the above
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following dictates services to ensure the promotion of health and prevention of disease and injury?
A) Needs Assessment
B) Public Health Goals
C) Health Care Reform
D) Public Health Demands
E) Human Services Planning
Answer: B
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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) In 1917, dental hygiene students at Fones School provided dental hygiene care to which unique target population?
A) Schoolteachers
B) Dental students
C) School nurses
D) Military soldiers
E) None of the above
Answer: D
Q3) Community water fluoridation works both systemically and topically.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Dental Care Delivery in the United States
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Q1) The most common dental-hygienist to dental-employment ratio
A)Demand
B)Utilization
C)Need
D)Supply
E)2:1
F)1:2
Answer: F
Q2) 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
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) Even in industrialized countries, where the prevalence of caries is low, what disease is prevalent in inner cities and among ethnic minorities?
A) Oral anomalies
B) Bruxism
C) Dental caries
D) Oral cancer
E) None of the above
Q2) Which common standard is required by all dental hygiene schools?
A) Community college matriculation
B) Standardized dental hygiene aptitude test
C) High school matriculation
D) Over 18 years of age
E) None of the above
Q3) Dental hygienists worldwide are becoming more educated with longer training requirements.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Federation Dentaire International has over twenty-three member countries.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Financing of Dental Care
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Q1) What form is used when a dental provider bills for dental procedures rendered?
A) Dental Fee Slip
B) Explanation of Benefits
C) Dental Claim Form
D) Utilization Review Form
E) None of the above
Q2) The number given to a specific procedure as designated in the ADA Codes on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature.
A)Premium
B)Procedure numbers
C)Copayment
D)UCR
E)Procedure codes
F)Dental necessity
G)EPSDT
Q3) Funding for public water fluoridation usually falls under the auspices of the local government.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Federal and State Legislation Affecting Dental
Hygiene Practice
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Q1) 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
Q2) A state legislator is a member of which branch of government?
A) Judicial
B) Administrative
C) Executive
D) Legislative
E) None of the above
Q3) Delegation of legislative power to a government agency
A)Administrative law
B)Judicial branch
C)Executive branch
D)Common law
E)Statutory law
F)Legislative branch
G)Constitutional law
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Chapter 7: Advocacy for Dental Care
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Q1) A memorandum of understanding is a formal alternative to a gentlemen's agreement but lacks the binding power of a(n) ________
A) Policy
B) Procedure
C) Contract
D) Agreement
E) None of the above
Q2) Change is recognized as an evolution from one state to another state.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Policies can be as formal as laws or rules or as loosely structured as guides or advisory opinions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Understanding a program or policies in need of change is ________.
A) Done at the beginning
B) Done after the program is implemented
C) Never a requirement of change
D) Always done by the change agent
E) None of the above
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Chapter 8: Dental Health Education and Promotion
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Q1) The changes an individual must make in order to attain health-which include precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, maintenance, and action-are the foundation of which theory?
A) Transtheoretical model
B) Healthy belief model
C) Five-dimensional model
D) Quality-of-life model
E) None of the above
Q2) This model emphasizes providers and patients working together toward treatment.
A)Self-determination theory
B)Modeling behavior
C)Empowerment
D)Classical conditioning
E)Operant conditioning
Q3) What occurs when an individual gains control over his/her environment?
A) Social molding
B) Imitation
C) Modeling
D) Competence
E) None of above
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Chapter 9: Lesson Plan Development
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Q1) A broad statement that reflects the final outcome is a(n) ________.
A) Analysis
B) Assessment
C) Goal
D) Needs assessment
E) None of the above
Q2) Which of the following allows the hygienist to plan in detail the information that will be presented, discussed, and measured?
A) Needs assessment
B) Dental hygiene diagnosis
C) Goals
D) Objectives
E) None of the above
Q3) Which domain includes feelings, attitudes, values, and interests?
A) Affective
B) Cognitive
C) Psychomotor
D) Application
E) None of the above
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Chapter 10: Target Populations
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Q1) What age group is interested in obtaining knowledge and continuing to strive for independence?
A) Infants
B) Pregnant women
C) Older adults
D) Elementary school-age children
E) None of the above
Q2) Medical conditions frequently affect oral health.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Family caregivers may be responsible for providing which type of care to their family member?
A) Scaling
B) Prophylaxis
C) Oral hygiene care
D) Professional dental care
E) Both B and D
Q4) Inmates are defined as individuals living in a state or federal prison.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Cultural Competency
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Q1) Americans are viewed as ________.
A) A melting pot
B) A salad bowl
C) Jello with fruit
D) Apples and oranges
E) None of the above
Q2) Which is the theory that suggests an individual's social interaction as a child leads to continuous changes in thought and behavior from culture to culture?
A) Social-cognitive
B) Cognitive
C) Sociocultural
D) Social behavior
E) None of the above
Q3) Successful communication with other cultures takes ________.
A) Time
B) Patience
C) Caring
D) Both B and C
E) None of the above
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Chapter 12: Program Planning
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Q1) Personnel needs, sometimes referred to as workforce needs, are analyzed during which stage?
A) Planning
B) Assessment
C) Implementation
D) Dental hygiene diagnosis
E) Evaluation
Q2) Implementing a ban on candy-vending machines in local clinics is an example of a promotional endeavor.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which program is a faith-based initiative?
A)Operation Smile
B)Sandoval Clinic
C)Matthew 25
D)Faith City Clinic
E)Bridgeport School Clinic
F)UNM School Based Dental Clinic
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Chapter 13: Program Evaluation
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Q1) Measures conditions that will not change
A)Reversible index
B)Cumulative index
C)Irreversible index
D)Dental index
E)Simple index
F)Basic index
G)Comprehensive index
Q2) A dental index should have which characteristic(s)?
A) Sensitivity
B) Quantifiability
C) Objectivity
D) Clarity
E) All of the above
Q3) Which type of evaluation method uses face-to-face interviews?
A) Analysis
B) Clinical
C) Nonclinical
D) Assessment
E) None of the above
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Chapter 14: Research in Dental Hygiene
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Q1) If dental hygiene is to evolve as a specific scientific discipline, ________.
A) Focus must be placed on being a field of study with a discipline interest
B) We must compile information from many disciplines and adapt it for a complete dental hygiene base
C) A research base solely generated by the profession must be established
D) We must ensure that all dental hygienists lobby for higher pay and more jobs
Q2) 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
Q3) All of the following is private practice methodology except ________.
A) Identifies chief complain
B) Makes diagnosis
C) Makes observations
D) Imitates treatment intervention
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Chapter 15: Ethical Principles in Research
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Q1) The Nuremberg Code was a result of ________.
A) The absence of research protocol from a university
B) A trial that was run without due process
C) War crimes trials
D) Universal report that was developed in the early 21st century
Q2) Veracity
A)Involves dental hygiene researcher doing what he or she thinks is best for the patient according to his or her ability and judgment
B)Ability to govern one's profession and to basically be self-determined and directed as a profession
C)Can be defined simply as being honest
D)Providing patients, test subjects, or populations with what is owed, due, or deserved
E)Requires that existing harm be removed
F)Health care provider's first obligation to the patient is to do no harm
Q3) Institutions that conduct medical research usually have an entity known as the HIPAA.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: The Research Process
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Q1) An investigation that studies the frequency of flossing and periodontal disease is called a ________.
A) Correlational study
B) Survey
C) Trend
D) Case study
E) All of the above
Q2) A specific incidence of disease in one person
A)Case report
B)Descriptive approach
C)Case study
D)Historical approach
E)Cohort
Q3) A study in which neither the participant nor the researcher knows who is using a product or placebo is termed ________.
A) Double-blind
B) Blind
C) Cross-over
D) Double cross-over
E) None of the above
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Chapter 17: Biostatistics
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Q1) Which is a perfect correlation?
A) +.75
B) 0
C) +.98
D) -98
E) +1
Q2) Controlled or uncontrolled diabetes is an example of which scale?
A)Scales of measurement
B)Ordinal scale
C)Discrete variable
D)Continuous variable
E)Nominal scale
Q3) What requires that critical thinking be used to explain the meaning and application of the findings and identify possible factors that could influence the results?
A) Data analysis
B) Interpretation
C) Data assessment
D) Causality
E) None of the above
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Chapter 18: Oral Epidemiology
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Q1) Degree to which a research study measured what it was supposed to measure (internal) and can be generalized to the entire population (external)
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) Best area for dental sealant placement
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) Dental caries is the most common of all diseases.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: Evaluation of Scientific Literature and Dental Products
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Q1) A dental hygienist who educates patients on dental care products is acting as a consumer advocate.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The ADA Seal of Acceptance program is regulated by the ________.
A) Institute of Medicine
B) Food and Drug Administration
C) American Dental Hygienists' Association
D) American Medical Association
E) American Dental Association
Q3) A refereed journal is sometimes called (a) ________.
A) Blind periodical
B) Peer-reviewed
C) Non-peer-reviewed
D) Both A and C
E) All of the above
Q4) A study should be randomized if at all possible.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: Careers in Dental Public Health
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Q1) Dental hygienist treating underserved patients in a rural community
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) Which agency follows the recruiting strategy of recruiting caring, culturally competent clinicians for communities in need?
A) Medical Services Institute
B) Institute of Medicine
C) National Health Service Corps
D) National Institutes of Health
E) None of the above
Q3) Dental hygienists can practice in any military branch as a(n) ________.
A) Active duty military personnel
B) Civil service employee
C) Professional management company employee
D) Independent contractor
E) All of the above
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Chapter 22: Strategies for Creating Dental Hygiene
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Q1) Resolving conflicts is a mandatory management skill for the dental hygienist.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the long term, access to dental hygiene care should increase costs to the consumer.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Developing practice location and hours
A)Promotion
B)Distribution plan
C)Product
D)Price
Q4) Public relations planning should commence during which stage?
A) Assessment
B) Planning
C) Dental hygiene diagnosis
D) Evaluation
E) Implementation
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