State Your Name! (States With Special Dental-Related Issues)
My Love is Deeper Than the Deepest OSHA
That Dentist is Unreal!
100
The full name of the organization to which many large group practices belong.
What is the Association of Dental Service Organizations (ADSO)?
100
The group that develops educational requirements and an educational accreditation program.
What is the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA)?
100
This state that reversed a ten percent Medicaid cut just a few years after it was adopted.
What is California?
100
Items that can pierce the skin; when contaminated, these must be disposed of in a special container.
What are “sharps”?
100
The “Friends” character who left her dentist fiancé (Dr. Barry Farber) at the altar.
Who is Rachel?
200
Nearly 70% of dentists are in this type of practice.
What is solo (solo practice)?
200
Along with the sponsoring organization, monitors the administrative standards and operation of the certifying board.
What is the Council on Dental Education and Licensure?
200
The first state to enact a Non-Covered Services law-preventing insurers from capping the fees a participating dentists may charge for services the plan does not cover.
What is Rhode Island?
200
During an on-site OSHA inspection, employees have this right.
What is the right to speak with the OSHA inspector in private?
200
The dentist who shared an office suite with Dr. Bob Newhart
Who is Jerry (Dr. Jerry Robinson)?
300
ADA’s classifications of group practices: Dentist Owned/Operated, DMSO Affiliated, Not-for-Profit, Government, Hybrid Group, and this final category.
What is Insurer-Provider Group Practice?
300
The dental specialty that promotes "dental health through organized community efforts"
What is Dental Public Health?
300
This was the first state to allow hygienists to practice unsupervised.
What is Colorado?
300
A vaccination series that must be made available to all employees with potential occupational exposure
What is the hepatitis B vaccination series?
300
The actor who played Dr. Orin Scrivello in the 1986 film “Little Shop of Horrors”.
Who is Steve Martin?
400
As of 2014, the DMSO affiliated group with the largest number of dentists.
What is Heartland Family Dental Care?
400
The group concerned with the dental pulp and periadicular issues.
Who are endodontists?
400
Sorry, students- only the results this state’s state-designed and administered clinical portion of the dental exam will be accepted – results from clinical exams administered by any of the 5 regional testing agencies will not be considered.
What is Delaware?
400
An employee who files an OSHA report (a “whistleblower”) is entitled to protection against this.
What is “adverse action” (or retaliation)?
400
Jerry Seinfeld’s dentist, he converted to Judiasm for the jokes.
Who is Dr.Tim Whatley?
500
The state that in 2015 passed a bill requiring registration of Dental Support Organizations.
What is Texas?
500
Specialty encompassing the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the supporting and surrounding tissues of the teeth
What is periodontics?
500
In 1945, a city in this state became the first to fluoridate its drinking water to prevent tooth decay?
What is Michigan (Grand Rapids)?
500
Not just the “ouch”- but the real concern with needle sticks.
What are blood borne pathogens?
500
A friend of Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer who became a dentist