Implants and Prosthodontics
What is the minimum recommended distance between two adjacent implants?
What is 3 mm?
This calcium-releasing liner is indicated in deep preps and promotes dentin bridge formation.
What is calcium hydroxide (e.g., Dycal)?
A patient presents with diffuse swelling, trismus, and dysphagia. What space is likely involved?
What is the submandibular space?
This is the most radiopaque material in a typical dental x-ray.
What is metal (e.g., amalgam or implant)?
This term describes the complete intercuspation of opposing teeth, independent of condylar position.
What is maximum intercuspation (MI or MIP)?
This impression material is hydrophilic, has excellent tear strength, and is commonly used for crown and bridge.
What is polyvinyl siloxane (PVS)?
The largest tooth in the maxillary arch.
What is the maxillary first molar?
This Pixar Christmas character has a massive overbite and dreams of being a dentist.
Who is Hermey the Elf (from Rudolph)?
You eat what you kill.
Who is Dr. Hanser or Dr. Blackwell?
This is the ideal keratinized tissue width around an implant for long-term health.
What is 2 mm?
This type of margin is most commonly used with full gold crowns.
What is a chamfer?
You see periapical radiolucency and the tooth is nonvital. What’s the diagnosis?
What is a chronic apical abscess?
What is the submandibular fossa?
This condylar position is when they are in their most anterior and superior position within the glenoid fossa, reproducible, ligament-guided, and independent of tooth contact.
What is centric relation (CR)?
Glass ionomer cement releases this ion, making it caries-inhibitory.
What is fluoride?
This tooth often has two canals in a single root and is easily missed on endo.
What is the mandibular lateral incisor?
In Finding Nemo, this fish used her dental knowledge to escape a tank and is known for "speaking whale."
Who is Dory?
"Why don't you use some ribbon to reinforce your provisional?"
Who is Dr. LeDoux?
This type of overdenture uses both tissue and implant support.
What is an RP-5?
This restorative material has the highest compressive strength, seals its own margins, and highest wear resistance for posterior teeth.
What is amalgam?
What is the first-line treatment for a dental abscess without systemic signs?
What is local drainage or RCT?
This artifact appears as a U-shape on a panoramic image.
What is the ghost image of the mandible?
On a semi-adjustable articulator, this setting controls the steepness of posterior disclusion during protrusive movements.
What is the condylar guidance?
This crown material is known for its strength but can be more difficult to adjust and polish chairside.
What is zirconia?
This is the most commonly congenitally missing permanent tooth (excluding 3rd molars).
What is the maxillary lateral incisor?
In this comedy, Ed Helms plays a dentist named Stu who pulls his own tooth.
What is The Hangover?
Someone call housekeeping.
Who is Dr. Dawson?
This is the most common biomechanical complication associated with implant restorations.
What is screw loosening?
You’re preparing a crown on tooth #30. What is the minimum occlusal reduction needed for a monolithic zirconia crown?
What is 1.0 mm?
Which two antibiotics are commonly paired when treating a non-responsive odontogenic infection?
What are amoxicillin and metronidazole?
You suspect vertical root fracture. What advanced imaging can help?
What is a CBCT?
You’re designing posterior implant crowns. What occlusal scheme reduces lateral forces and is most protective for implants?
What is mutually protected occlusion or implant-protected occlusion?
This is the primary component of light-cured composite resin that undergoes polymerization.
What is Bis-GMA?
The last primary tooth to exfoliate, typically around age 12.
What is the maxillary canine? or
What are the second molars?
This "Friends" character famously gets their teeth too whitened, resulting in a glow-in-the-dark smile.
Who is Ross Geller?
You are a thermostat, not a thermometer.
Who is Dr. Hanser?
You are planning a full-arch fixed prosthesis. This is the ideal minimum AP spread ratio you want to maintain.
What is 1.5?
This is the most opaque type of zirconia and best masks discolored tooth structure.
What is 3Y-TZP (3 mol% yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystal)?
What is the maximum recommended extraoral time for an avulsed permanent tooth to be replanted with a favorable prognosis, assuming it is stored in an appropriate medium?
What is 60 minutes?
This artifact appears bilaterally on a panoramic film and can be due to radiopaque jewelry or eye glasses.
What is a ghost image?
This term describes how the anterior teeth disengage the posterior teeth in mandibular excursions.
What is anterior guidance?
This cement is commonly used for temporary restorations and contains eugenol.
What is ZOE (Zinc Oxide Eugenol)?
This permanent tooth is most likely to have a C-shaped canal system
What is the mandibular second molar?
This St. Louis rapper showed off custom diamond-studded teeth in his 2005 hit single “Grillz.”
Who is Nelly?
"Do I need to?" When you ask them to take a look at your patient.
Who is Dr. Omran?
This type of abutment requires the casting of alloy, and is used to make true screw-retained implant crowns.
What is a UCLA abutment?
The most common reason for failure of posterior composite restorations is:
What is recurrent caries at the margin?
Your patient is having an anaphylactic reaction to penicillin. What’s your first move?
What is administer intramuscular epinephrine (0.3 mg)?
This U-shaped radiopaque structure is often seen superior to the roots of maxillary molars?
What is the zygomatic arch (or zygomatic process of the maxilla)?
This occlusal discrepancy can cause muscle strain and TMJ discomfort when there is a significant shift from CR to MIP.
What is a CR-MIP slide (premature contact in CR)?
This, often stinky, elastomeric impression material is extremely hydrophilic and rigid, making it ideal for capturing subgingival margins in moist environments and implant impressions.
What is polyether?
This supplemental cusp, when present, is found on the mesiolingual cusp of the maxillary first molar.
What is the Cusp of Carabelli?
This villain in James Bond is known for his deadly metal teeth.
Who is Jaws?
"Blah, Blah, Blah...when explaining a story"
Who is Dr. Misischia?
Compared to natural teeth, implants lack this structure, which changes their load distribution.
What is the periodontal ligament?
This type of cement is self-adhesive, dual-cure, and often used with zirconia or metal crowns when bonding is not critical.
What is a resin-modified glass ionomer (or self-adhesive resin cement, e.g., RelyX Unicem)?
A patient calls 36 hours after extraction of an impacted third molar reporting worsening pain, foul odor, and bad taste. There’s no swelling or fever. What is the likely diagnosis and initial management?
What is alveolar osteitis (dry socket); irrigate gently and place medicated dressing (e.g., eugenol-based paste)?
This mixed radiolucent-radiopaque lesion, often seen in African American females in the mandibular anterior region, is asymptomatic and typically requires no treatment.
What is florid cemento-osseous dysplasia?
This term refers to the anteroposterior curve that helps align cusp tips from anterior to posterior teeth in the sagittal plane.
What is the Curve of Spee?
This all-ceramic material offers the best combination of translucency and flexural strength for anterior restorations, making it ideal for esthetic veneers.
What is lithium disilicate (e.g., IPS e.max)?
This tooth is most likely to have a dens in dente (dens invaginatus).
What is the maxillary lateral incisor?
An Alaskan dentist made national news - and lost his license - after extracting a tooth while riding this type of toy?
What is a hoverboard?
"It's not the attachment, it's how you use it."
Who is Dr. Blackwell?
In the posterior mandible, this is the most commonly encountered anatomical limitation that can impact implant placement.
What is the lingual undercut (submandibular fossa)?
This is the minimum recommended ferrule height for a tooth receiving a post and core and crown, to ensure resistance to fracture.
What is 1.5–2.0 mm?
A known diabetic patient becomes confused, diaphoretic, and shaky during a long procedure. What do you suspect and how should you manage it?
What is hypoglycemia; administer a rapidly absorbed carbohydrate such as glucose gel or juice?
This radiographic principle states that an object that moves in the same direction as the x-ray tube is located lingually.
What is the SLOB rule (Same Lingual, Opposite Buccal)?
This is the term for the distance between two points when the mandible is in physiologic rest position, and it typically exceeds occlusal vertical dimension by 2–4 mm.
What is the vertical dimension at rest (VDR)?
This photoinitiator is commonly used in light-cured resin composites and is responsible for initiating polymerization.
What is camphorquinone?
This additional distolingual root is most commonly found on the mandibular first molar.
What is the radix entomolaris?
In this musical, Orin Scrivello, DDS is a sadistic dentist who sings about causing pain and meets a grisly end.
What is Little Shop of Horrors?
That looks reaaaaaal nice, when assessing a restoration or laboratory work.
Who is Dr. Duncan?
The presence of an interproximal papilla between an implant and a natural tooth is most predictable when the vertical distance from the bone crest to the contact point is less than:
What is 5 mm?
When bonding a lithium disilicate crown, this sequence of surface treatment steps is recommended to optimize adhesion.
What are etch with hydrofluoric acid, rinse, silanate, and apply resin adhesive?
After administering 2 cartridges of 2% lidocaine with 1:100,000 epinephrine, your patient becomes anxious, reports palpitations, and their hands begin to tremble. What is the likely cause, and what is your management?
What is epinephrine reaction; reassure the patient, place them upright, monitor vitals—no medication typically required unless symptoms worsen?
This periapical radiolucency is associated with a vital tooth and may be mistaken for pathology, especially near mandibular molars.
What is the mental foramen?
You detect fremitus on a maxillary central incisor during closure into MIP. This suggests what type of occlusal imbalance?
What is an excessive contact or premature contact in anterior guidance or envelope of function?
This component of dental amalgam reacts with mercury to form the gamma-2 phase, which is the weakest and most corrosion-prone phase of the set restoration.
What is tin (Sn)?
This is the most common supernumerary tooth that is typically located between maxillary central incisors.
What is a Mesiodens?
In Cast Away, Tom Hanks uses this makeshift tool to extract his own tooth.
What is an ice skate blade?
"That's a them problem, not a you problem"
Who is Dr. Hanser?