Category 1
The following agencies released the Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings?
Who is the CDC?
The role of _______ is to issue specific standards to protect the health of employees in the United States.
The most common route of patient to dental team disease transmission in the dental office?
What is Direct contact with the patient’s blood or saliva?
Immunity allows the body to resist disease and prevents foreign bodies from causing
What is infection?
A dental office staff member who transmits a disease because he or she failed to remove protective clothing prior to entering a store on the way home from work is an example of __________________ disease transmission.
What is dental office-to-community?
The term that is used to describe disease-causing organisms?
What is Pathogens?
An infection that has a rapid onset or a short course is a(n) __________ infection.
What is acute?
The best method for washing hands that are not visibly soiled?
What is Alcohol-based hand rub?
The law designed to protect employees against occupational exposure to blood-borne disease-causing organisms such as HBV, HIV, and HCV is
What is the OSHA Blood-Borne Pathogens (BBP) Standard?
Protective clothing should have...
What is long sleeves and a high neckline?
This type of pathogens is carried in the blood and body fluids of infected individuals and that can be transmitted to others.
What is Blood-borne?
What should be removed first when removing PPE?
What is Gloves?
When immunity is obtained by recovery from a disease, it is called _______________ immunity.
What is active naturally acquired?
A(n) _____________ injury is through the skin, such as a needle stick.
What is Percutaneous?
Who should be notified first of an exposure incident after initial first aid is provided?
Who is the Employer?
Which of the following is the first procedural step after an exposure incident?
What is stop operations immediately?
Pathogens must have a pathway into the body called a(n) ___________ to cause infection.
What is portal of entry?
What is considered personal protective equipment (PPE) that the employer should provide free of charge to the employee?
What is Protective clothing, protective eyewear, disposable patient treatment gloves, utility gloves, and surgical masks
According to the CDC, ____________ Precautions represent a standard of care designed to protect healthcare providers from pathogens that can be spread by blood or any other body fluid, excretion, or secretion.
What is Standard?
When is the best time to clean and disinfect dental prostheses or impressions that will be handled in the in-office laboratory?
What is as soon as possible after removal from the patient’s mouth?
Pathogens transmitted by means of cuts or punctures are an example of _______ transmission.
What is parenteral?
_________ transmission means touching or contact with the patient’s blood or saliva.
What is Indirect?
Mistlike aerosols are
What is capable of remaining airborne for extended periods and can be inhaled?
A person who is unable to resist infection by a particular pathogen is known as _______ in the chain of infection.
What is a susceptible host?
What is the correct sequence for handwashing and gloving?
What is wash your hands before you put on gloves and immediately after you remove gloves?