History of Dental
What term would best describe using teeth to identify the dead?
Forensic Dentistry
What is HIPAA the abbreviation for?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What does CDT stand for?
Certified Dental Technician
Code of Ethics
means a patient for whom the patient's most recent dentist has obtained a relevant medical and dental history and on whom the dentist has performed an examination and evaluated the condition to be treated.
Patient of Record
What term refers to surrounding or encasing a tooth?
periodontal
What does ADAA stand for?
American Dental Assistants Association
Who is the person who has received a degree from an accredited school of dentistry and is licensed to practice dentistry by a state board of dental examiners
A Dentist
What is the legally protected right afforded to designated health care professionals not to disclose information discerned or communicated during consultation with a patient?
Confidentiality
occurs when a dentist terminates a patient relationship without giving the patient adequate notice or time to locate another practitioner.
Abandonment
What is the use of information technology and telecommunications for dental care, consultation, education, and public awareness.
Teledentistry
What does CDA stand for?
What is the field of dentistry concerned with the biology and pathology of dental pulp and periapical tissues?
Endodontics
The doing of active goodness, kindness, or charity, including all actions intended to benefit others.
Beneficence
Any of the dentist's supporting team who helps with dental treatment. They include dental assistants, dental therapists, dental hygienists, dental technologists
Dental Auxiliary
What is a formal article or book based on dental evidence and facts?
Dental Treatise
What does DANB stand for?
Dental Assisting National Board
What is the branch of dentistry concerned with correction and prevention of irregularities and malocclusion of the teeth?
Orthodontics
What means non-harming or inflicting the least harm possible to reach a beneficial outcome.
Nonmaleficence
means supervision of dental procedures based on instructions given by the licensed dentist but not requiring the physical presence of the supervising dentist during the performance of those procedures.
General Supervision
What is a short-term relationship between a student as novice and an experienced staff person called?
Preceptorship
Who is the person trained to provide support to a dentist with general tasks ranging from clerical to chairside assisting?
Dental Assistant
What is the science of providing suitable substitutes for coronal portions of teeth, or for one or more lost or missing teeth and their associated parts, so that impaired function, appearance, and comfort may be restored?
Prosthodontics
Law is what you are required to do, ethics is?
What you should do
Statements made at the time of an alleged negligent act that are admissible in court as evidence.
res gestae