Dental Hygiene Theory and Practice
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Course Introduction
Dental Hygiene Theory and Practice explores the foundational principles, evidence-based strategies, and clinical techniques essential for the promotion of oral health and prevention of dental diseases. Emphasizing patient-centered care, this course introduces students to the assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation phases of the dental hygiene process of care. Topics include oral anatomy, infection control, instrumentation, dental materials, patient education, communication, and ethical decision-making within diverse populations. Through a blend of classroom instruction, hands-on laboratory exercises, and supervised clinical experiences, students develop critical thinking, technical competency, and professionalism necessary for a successful career in dental hygiene.
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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 is a component of ________.
A) Public Affairs
B) Public Relations
C) Public Health
D) Community Affairs
E) Both A and D
Answer: C
Q2) Community oral health has a similar meaning to dental public health.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) 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
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Chapter 2: The Prevention Movement
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Q1) Although the U.S. Surgeon General's Report was published in 2000, Fones started dental hygiene in the early 1900s based on the premise that dental health affects
A) One's total health
B) The entire human race
C) One's educational level
D) One's income level
E) All of the above
Answer: A
Q2) Dental hygiene was historically founded as which type of profession?
A) Dental public health
B) Cosmetic
C) Restorative
D) Referral
E) Healing
Answer: A
Q3) Diet plays a major role in the etiology of dental caries.
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 federal agency that is composed of community health centers, migrant workers' health centers, and primary care programs is called the ________.
A) HCFA
B) HRSA
C) ADIR
D) SAMSHA
E) AoA
Answer: B
Q2) The federal entity that is charged with providing a system of health surveillance to monitor and prevent outbreaks of disease is the ________.
A) National Institutes of Health
B) Institute of Medicine
C) National Institutes of Dental and Craniofacial Research
D) Food and Drug Administration
E) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Dental Hygiene Care Delivery in the Global Community
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Q1) The Red Cross regulates dental hygiene in which country?
A)Dental nurses
B)Dental therapists
C)Switzerland
D)The Netherlands
E)Canada
F)Australia
G)New Zealand
H)Oral health promotion
Q2) Which of the following are objectives of the International Federation of Dental Hygienists?
A) To promote and coordinate the exchange of knowledge and information about the profession and its education and practice
B) To promote access to quality preventive oral health services to all people
C) To represent and advance the profession of dental hygiene on a nongovernmental, worldwide basis
D) Both A and B
E) All of the above
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Chapter 5: Financing of Dental Care
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Q1) Which system is used when a dental provider contracts with a program to provide all or most dental services to the program's subscribers in return for payment on a per-capita basis?
A) Barter
B) Encounter
C) Capitation
D) Fee for service
E) All of the above could fit this definition.
Q2) A service provided by a dental provider that has been determined as a generally acceptable dental practice based on the individual's diagnosis.
A)Premium
B)Procedure numbers
C)Copayment
D)UCR
E)Procedure codes
F)Dental necessity
G)EPSDT
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Chapter 6: Federal and State Legislation Affecting Dental
Hygiene Practice
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Q1) Members of the Supreme Court represent which branch of government?
A) Judicial
B) Executive
C) Legislative
D) Administrative
E) None of the above
Q2) Enforces laws
A)Administrative law
B)Judicial branch
C)Executive branch
D)Common law
E)Statutory law
F)Legislative branch
G)Constitutional law
Q3) 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
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Chapter 7: Advocacy for Dental Care
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Q1) The process of working together toward a common goal is called ________
A) Ethics
B) Procedures
C) Collaboration
D) Cooperation
E) All of the above
Q2) What is necessary to create change?
A) Influencing individuals who govern policy
B) Increasing financial status
C) Redesigning the public health facility
D) Knowing how policies are enforced
E) All of the above
Q3) An example of a local policy may be advocating for a community preventive dental program.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Collaborative relationships tend to decrease the effectiveness of lobbying.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Dental Health Education and Promotion
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Q1) The last step in the learning ladder is the involvement step.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) Which of the following theories reinforces the belief that social pressure is significant in influencing behavior?
A) Transtheoretical
B) Social-cognitive
C) Maslow's hierarchy
D) Theory of reasoned action
E) None of the above
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Chapter 9: Lesson Plan Development
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Q1) 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
Q2) The verb, understand, is often open to misinterpretation when developing an objective.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which teaching method uses problem-based learning skills?
A) Discussion
B) Inquiry
C) Case reviews
D) Lecture
E) None of the above
Q4) The cognitive domain represents intellectual skills.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Target Populations
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Q1) Inmates are defined as individuals living in a state or federal prison.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What group of disease damages a person's joints?
A) Arthritis
B) Crohn's disease
C) Asthma
D) Depression
E) All of the above
Q3) When treating a school-aged child it is important to direct the question to the child first so that the child realizes that he/she is your patient.
A) The first statement is true, the second statement is false.
B) The first statement is false, the second statement is true.
C) Both statements are true.
D) Both statements are false.
E) None of the above
Q4) Medical conditions frequently affect oral health.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Cultural Competency
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Q1) 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
Q2) Communication can be accomplished ________.
A) Orally
B) In writing
C) By body language
D) Both B and C
E) All of the above
Q3) Different populations having different disease rates
A)Cultural competence
B)Oral health disparities
C)Cultural diversity
D)Ethnocentrism
E)Cross-cultural dental hygiene
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Chapter 12: Program Planning
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Q1) During which stage are the goals/objectives measured?
A) Assessment
B) Implementation
C) Evaluation
D) Dental hygiene diagnosis
E) Planning
Q2) During which stage does the hygienist analyze the current resources?
A) Planning
B) Evaluation
C) Implementation
D) Dental hygiene diagnosis
E) Assessment
Q3) During which stage does the dental hygienist develop a blueprint?
A) Planning
B) Dental hygiene diagnosis
C) Implementation
D) Evaluation
E) Assessment
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Chapter 13: Program Evaluation
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Q1) Quantitative evaluation generally refers to ________.
A) How well a program did
B) How much a program accomplished
C) How many personnel were used
D) Both A and B
E) None of the above
Q2) The internal evaluation of a program is referred to as the ________.
A) Quality control evaluation
B) Formative evaluation
C) Assessment force
D) Summative evaluation
E) All of the above
Q3) A National Oral Health Surveillance system has been developed based on a set of oral health indicators used by Healthy People 2020.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The BSS is the Basic Screening Survey developed by the American Dental Hygienists' Association.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Research in Dental Hygiene
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Q1) All of the following is private practice methodology except ________.
A) Identifies chief complain
B) Makes diagnosis
C) Makes observations
D) Imitates treatment intervention
Q2) What is a body of techniques that uses observation, reason, and experimentation to further evidence?
A) Science measurement
B) Scientific method
C) Evidence-based method
D) Retroactive method
E) Both A and B
Q3) Evidence-based practice takes into account which preferences?
A) Local government
B) Patient
C) Nonclinical
D) Experimental approaches
E) None of the above
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Chapter 15: Ethical Principles in Research
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Q1) When a covered entity conducts clinical research involving protected health information (PHI), dental hygienists-investigators must understand the HIPAA privacy rules' restrictions on the use and disclosure of patients' PHI, such as information from a patient's medical chart or test results, as well as an individual's billing information for medical services rendered, when that information is held or transmitted by an entity. PHI also includes identifiable health information about subjects of clinical research gathered by a researcher who is a health care provider.
A) The first statement is true; the second statement is false.
B) The first statement is false; the second statement is true.
C) Both statements are true.
D) Both statements are false.
Q2) What group is charged with reviewing the ethical implications of a research study?
A) Health access group
B) Institutional review board
C) Ethic study board
D) Bioethics review group
E) Both A and C
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Chapter 16: The Research Process
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Q1) Stratifying a sample would define information such as age, gender, sex, income level, or educational levels.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) A small version of a proposed study is called a ________.
A) Case study
B) Pilot study
C) Controlled study
D) Pivotal study
E) Both A and C
Q4) A factorial design is used to study two or more independent variables.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Biostatistics
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Q1) This error occurs when the null hypothesis is rejected, and it is true.
A) Type IV
B) Type II
C) Type III
D) Type I
E) None of the above
Q2) Represented numerically
A)Scales of measurement
B)Ordinal scale
C)Discrete variable
D)Continuous variable
E)Nominal scale
Q3) Nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio
A)Scales of measurement
B)Ordinal scale
C)Discrete variable
D)Continuous variable
E)Nominal scale
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Chapter 18: Oral Epidemiology
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Q1) Methods or systems used to monitor disease and morbidity in a population
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
Q2) Observational studies can be conducted to infer causality.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Current Oral Epidemiological Findings
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Q1) A type of congenital deformity caused by abnormal facial development during gestation
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
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Chapter 20: Evaluation of Scientific Literature and Dental Products
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Q1) A dental hygienist should recommend products based on the ADA Seal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Method and material section
A)Literature review
B)Methodology
C)Results and discussions
D)Introduction
E)Abstract
Q3) Findings of a study
A)Literature review
B)Methodology
C)Results and discussions
D)Introduction
E)Abstract
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) Which agency was created to treat the ongoing disabilities of veterans that were incurred during military service?
A) Veterans Affairs
B) Federal Bureau of Prisons
C) Military dental clinics
D) Both A and B
E) None of the above
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) Providing health care and related services to medically underserved populations is a mission of which agency(ies)?
A) VA
B) PHS
C) IOM
D) FDA
E) Both A and B
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Chapter 22: Strategies for Creating Dental Hygiene
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Q1) Which issues should be defined during the planning stages and further refined during the implementation and evaluation stages?
A) Management
B) Service
C) Marketing
D) Practice management
E) None of the above
Q2) Which stage(s) is (are) used to create a dental hygiene program?
A) Implementation
B) Dental hygiene program
C) Assessment
D) Evaluation
E) All of the above
Q3) Which of the following skills are needed when managing a practice?
A) Resolve conflicts
B) Motivate and evaluate workers
C) Formulate policies and procedures
D) Coordinate personnel
E) All of the above
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