The Pro
A primary care oral health professional
What is a professional dental hygienist?
The six interrelated components of the dental hygiene process of care.
What are Assess, Diagnose, Plan, Implement, Evaluate, and Document?
The practical application of EBDM across diverse clinical and nonclinical professions.
What is Evidence-based Practice?
Crossed arms are indicative of this type of language.
What is nonverbal?
Treating every patient the same.
What are standard precautions?
Name of the first dental hygienist.
Who is Irene Newman?
This is relied upon in designing the dental hygiene care plan.
What is the dental hygiene diagnosis?
P.I.C.O. stands for what when developing a research question.
Difficulties for older adults in communication would include these three.
What are visual or hearing impairments, decreased ability to remember, and medications that may alter cognition?
Types of Items that come into contact with soft tissue and bone.
What are critical items?
This oral health professional entity became incorporated in 1927.
This is the first phase of the six interrelated steps for the dental hygiene process of care.
What is/are assessments?
This type of information source includes multiple sources, like a textbook.
What is a tertiary information source?
A patronizing or demeaning type of communication.
What is "Baby Talk" or "Elderspeak"?
It won't do your dishes for you, but it will prepare your instruments for sterilization.
What is an instrument washer/disinfector (Miele)?
He is considered the father of dental hygiene.
Who is Dr. Alfred Fones?
Measures carried out before disease occurs are this type of prevention.
What is Primary Prevention?
These types of search domains on the internet have the highest credibility.
What are .gov and .edu?
Circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work, play, and age.
What are social determinants of health?
This test is to be performed weekly for sterilizers to verify proper functioning.
What is a biologic monitor or spore test?
This type of supervision requires the "supervisor" to be present during a procedure.
What is direct supervision?
This type of provider can practice advanced care plans in tribal communities.
What is the Dental Health Aide Therapist, or DHAT?
The gold standard for scientific evidence.
What are randomized controlled trials?
The use of tools or technology to convey information.
What is media communication?
What is a hospital-grade disinfectant with tuberculocidal activity?