Dental Assess.
Your client presents with a tooth colored restoration on the the distal and occlusal surface of tooth 4.6. You chart this restoration in blue. How would you verbalize your finding to your instructor?
What is: "I have documented a disto-occlusal tooth colored restoration (or composite) on the 4.6."
This type of stain is both Extrinsic and Exogenous.
What is (are) black line stain, yellow & orange stain, tobacco, coffee/tea, etc.?
True or False: It is beneficial to document all missing or extracted teeth prior to continuing the dental assessment.
What is true?
Tetracycline and stain from a non vital tooth are this type of stain.
What is intrinsic and endogenous?
What could potentially cause a tooth to be in supraversion?
What is/are missing an adjacent tooth (molar), crowding, malocclusion, impacted teeth, etc.
This is a complex and structured mass of inorganic deposit.
What is dental biofilm?
True or False: Centric occlusion is the ideal position to assess occlusion.
What is true?
This non-mineralized deposit acts as both a protective layer and nidus (nest) for bacteria and is a mode for calculus attachment.
What is the pellicle (acquired)?
Name two types of measurements (with PCP probe) we take for occlusion assessments.
What are overbite, overjet, max and mand deviation, etc.?
This non-mineralized deposit is described as a cottage-cheese-like substance because it is a loose mass of bacteria and oral debris often located over the surface of undisturbed dental biofilm.
What is material alba?