Legal Responsibility
This is a healthcare provider's obligation or responsibility to provide services to the patient.
What is liability?
These items are hidden signs of inflammation of the periodontium
What is bone loss, exudate, and BOP?
This vitamin is obtained from diet and synthesized via sun exposure.
What is vitamin D?
This technology uses a scanner to examine a body site by taking a series of cross-sectional images one slice at a time a full circle rotation. It is commonly used in implant placement treatment planning.
What is computed tomographic radiography, or CBCT machine?
What is the normal color of tissue in pediatric patient?
What is more reddish?
This is the improper or negligent treatment by a healthcare provider that results in injury or damage to the patient.
What is malpractice?
This is the percentage in which periodontitis would be considered generalized.
Diet plays a ________ role in the progression of periodontal disease.
What is modifying?
This medical device uses precisely focused light source to treat or remove tissue.
What is a laser?
This is the normal stimulated salivary flow.
What is 1-2 mL/min?
This refers to failure to exercise reasonable care to avoid injuring others.
What is Negligence?
examples: spilling tissue-damaging chemicals (etch, sodium hypochlorite), completing the incorrect treatment of periodontal disease, failure to update med history resulting in patient's health being jeopardized, etc.
This is a sequential outline of the steps to be carried out by the dental team to restore the patient back to health.
What is the master treatment plan?
These chemically reactive molecules are unstable, produced at higher rates from adipocytes, and their effects can be offset by vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, beta carotene, uric acid, or glutathione.
What is reactive oxygen species (ROS)?
This is unspecialized or undifferentiated cells that can be used to potentially regenerate periodontal tissue.
What is stem cells or stem cell biology?
These are Y shaped proteins that activate the complement system, and can cause a hypersensitive immune reaction.
What are antibodies or immunoglobulins?
Placing a sealant without informed consent from the legal guardian is what type of intentional tort?
What is battery?
This is an estimate of the future rate of progression of periodontitis, and is a crucial part in the diagnostic process.
What is Grade?
This is the most abundant circulating adipokine secreted exclusively by adipose tissue.
What is adiponectin?
This is an optical handpiece that electronically reads and records measurements. It has similar reliability to a manual probe when used by calibrated clinician.
What is a computer-linked periodontal probe?
These bacteria are associated with the red complex of the Socransky's model.
What are P. gingivalis, T. forysthia, and T. denticola
Yelling at a child patient when they're not listening to you in the dental office is an example of what type of intentional tort?
What is infliction of emotional distress?
This grade is associated with percent of bone loss to patient age is 0.25-1.0.
What is Grade B?
This is a "good" cytokine that regulates glucose levels and lipid metabolism and has anti-inflammatory effects. It is found in low levels in obesity.
What is adiponectin?
This is a noninvasive method that emits a narrow beam of ultrasound waves into a gingival sulcus/pocket. The beams are absorbed, scattered, or reflected. The reflected beams echo back and "read" data to create a two-dimensional image.
What is ultrasonic periodontal probe?
This is the term for hibernating bacteria uneffected by antibiotics.
What is quiescence?