Well-Balanced Diet
This kind of food encourages biofilm accumulation.
What is soft and sticky?
Name four modifiable risk factors for periodontal disease.
What is tobacco use, diabetes, obesity, alcohol consumption, diet, psychological factors, or medication?
The correct order of preparation for PPE for the dental hygienist.
What is gown, mask, glasses, gloves?
When working on a SRP or patient with heavy deposit, the clinician should use this type of cavitron insert.
What is a blue/standard tip?
Restoring a sharp, cutting edge is one of two main objectives when instrument sharpening. This is the other objective.
What is preserving the original shape of the instrument?
These are four of the six preventative measures that support dietary control for dental caries.
What is adequate biofilm removal, modification of cariogenic food/beverages, home/office applied fluoride, sealants, restoring carious lesions, and rinsing w/ fluoridated water after eating cariogenic food?
Instrumentation technique that should always use a systematic approach.
What is channeling or overlapping strokes?
These are the three reasons why a face mask should be changed.
What is a new patient, if it becomes wet, and at least every hour?
Arestin needs to come into contact with this to ensure the microspheres adhere to the surrounding surfaces.
What is gingival crevicular fluid?
Three types of examinations that are completed to evaluate clinical treatment outcomes of NSPT.
What is visual, tactile, and periodontal?
This is the critical pH level for demineralization of the enamel.
What is below 5.5?
One of the main clinical endpoints after SRP treatment has occurred.
What is bleeding on probing eliminated?
Number of milligrams (mg) of nicotine that is considered toxic.
What is 60mg?
This agent is a preferred adjunct as it does not have the potential for the development of bacterial resistance.
What is Chlorhexidine?
This is one sign/symptom of systemic involvement related to necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (NUG).
What is malaise, fever, lymphadenopathy of submandibular & cervical nodes?
Two of the four vitamin/mineral deficiency seen with delayed wound healing.
What are Riboflavin, zinc, vitamin A, & vitamin C?
The primary objective of the dental hygiene care plan for periodontal therapy.
Research has shown that this active ingredient is most effective in killing pathogens on dentures.
What is sodium hypochlorite?
This is a prosthesis designed to close a congenital or acquired opening, such as a cleft palate.
What is an obturator?
A systematic approach to identifying factors to evaluate when planning dental hygiene care is broken down into 5 categories: OSCAR. This is what the 'A' stands for.
What is autonomy?
Deficiency of Iron can cause 3 different oral manifestations. These are two.
What is sore/burning tongue, angular cheilosis, and candidiasis?
These three techniques are required for putting instruments in action to accomplish treatment.
What is adaptation, angulation, and lateral pressure?
Due to the substantivity of 0.12% chlorhexidine, it provides a lowered bacterial count for more than this amount of time.
What is 60 minutes?
The route which systemically administered antibiotics reach pathogenic organisms.
What is in the pocket through the circulation?
Palliative treatment for herpetic gingivostomatitis includes this.