Infection control
This regulation requires the use of surface disinfection
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
Branch of dentistry that diagnoses, prevents, and treats dental and oral facial irregularities
What is Orthodontics?
A substance that causes an immune response the through the production of antibodies.
What is an Antigen?
Basic Ethic Principle - To do no harm
What is non-maleficence?
Loss of saliva production causing a dry mouth
What is xerostomia?
A high leveled disinfectant/ sterilant
-can be used as a liquid sterilant
What is Glutaraldehyde?
Emphasis on this practice is placed on prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment.
What is Pediatrics?
The acronym for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
What is CPR?
These are voluntary standards that are set by members of the profession.
What is Code of Ethics?
A mental disorder characterized by loss of memory, concentration, and judgement.
What is Dementia?
This disinfectant destroys all microorganisms; but necessarily high numbers of bacterial spores
What is High level disinfectant?
Involved in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of diseases , injuries, and defects affecting the hard and soft tissues of the head and neck region.
What is Oral and Maxillofacial surgery?
Proper chest compression depth for adults
What is 2 inches(5cm)
Permission for a procedure to be performed, which is granted by a patient after having been informed about the procedure’s details
What is Informed Consent?
The fastest growing segment of the U.S.
What is the Aging Population?
Items that are used only on one patient and then are thrown away
What is a Single use item?
Periodontal surgery that involves modification of the bone.
Hint. Osseo- prefix meaning bone
What is Osseous Surgery?
-Face Dropping
-Arm Weakness
-Speech Difficulty
What is Signs of having a stroke?
Behavior can be unethical and still be legal, but it cannot be illegal and still be
What is Ethical?
A disorder associated with an overactive thyroid gland/
Hint. Graves Disease
What is Hyperthyroidism?
Name three kinds of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
What is Protective clothing, Surgical masks, Faceshields, Protective eyewear, disposable treatment gloves, and/or heavy duty treatment gloves?
Removes Supragingival calculus and difficult stains
Cleans furcation areas
Removes deposits before periodontal surgery
What is an Ultrasonic scaler?
-Activating the emergency response
-Early performance of high quality CPR
-Rapid defibrillation
What is Basic Life support (BLS)?
This protects the confidentiality of patient health information
What is HIPAA?
The category that patients with serious medical conditions who require only limited care to eliminate serious acute oral disease; includes pts who must be free of pain and discomfort
What is Category V?