Dental Specialties
A dentist who practices all phases of dentistry
What is a general dentist?
The amount of permanent teeth the average adult has
What is 32?
The process of killing disease-causing organisms on dental equipment
What is disinfection?
The centre of all clinical activity
What is The Dental Chair?
The most common dental disease worldwide
What is a cavity?
This dental specialty deals with the oral health of children
What is pediatric dentistry?
The medical term for "baby teeth"
What is deciduous teeth/primary teeth/primary dentition?
What dentists must wear to perform to carry out all and every procedure
What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
A unit on wheels that holds several dental handpieces such as the air-water syringe
What is a Mobile Cart?
The "miracle fluid" that provides physical, chemical, and antibacterial protective measures for the teeth
What is Saliva?
The dental specialty concerned with the replacement of missing teeth
What is prosthodontics?
The medical term for a gap between teeth
What is diastema?
The procedure for regloving if gloves are damaged during treatment
What is excusing yourself, discarding gloves, washing hands thoroughly, regloving, and returning to chairside?
Straight blades with cutting edges that are used to shape and plane the enamel and dentin walls
What are chisels?
The inflammation of the gingival tissue
What is gingivitis?
The current number of ADA approved specialties
What is 9?
At or near the end of the root of a tooth
What is the apex?
The type of transmission that most often occurs among healthcare and daycare workers who change diapers
What is Fecal-Oral Transmission?
This part of a dental instrument connects the handle to the working end and may narrow or taper
What is The Shank?
The inflammation of the supporting teeth
What is periodontitis?
The specialty concerned with the diagnosis and nature of diseases affecting the oral cavity
What is Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology?
The V-shaped depression between your nose and your mouth
What is the philtrum?
The only harmful organism that isn't killed during disinfection procedures
What are spores?
A small machine that mixes dental amalgam and some dental cements
The general term to describe changes and inflammation to the tongue
What is Glossitis?