BLACK'S CLASSES
ANESTHETIC
TERMINOLOGY
ANATOMY
TEETH
100
IN THIS CLASS OF DECAY. DECAY IS FOUND ON THE OCCLUSAL SURFACE OF POSTERIOR TEETH
What is Class I?
100
WHEN REMOVING AN ANESTHETIC CARPULE FROM AN ASPIRATING SYRINGE IT IS IMPORTANT TO DISPOSE OF THE CARPULE AND THE NEEDLE INTO THIS DEVICE.
What is a sharps container?
100
A PLASTIC-LIKE COVERING APPLIED OVER PITS AND FISSURES TO PROTECT THE TOOTH AGAINST DECAY.
What is a sealant?
100
THE STRONGEST, LONGEST, AND ONLY MOVEABLE BONE OF THE FACE.
What is the mandible?
100
THE FOUR TYPES OF TEETH.
What are incisors, canines, premolars and molars?
200
IN THIS CLASSIFICATION OF DECAY. DECAY IS FOUND AT THE GINGIVAL THIRD OF ANY TOOTH AND CAN BE FOUND ON THE LINGUAL OR FACIAL/BUCCAL SIDE
What is Class V?
200
THIS TYPE OF ANESTHESIA INJECTION IS FREQUENTLY USED ON THE MANDIBULAR TEETH AND IS INJECTED NEAR A MAJOR NERVE THAT NUMBS THE ENTIRE AREA SERVED BY THAT NERVE BRANCH.
What is a block injection?
200
A HARD CALCIFIED BUILD-UP ON TEETH THAT CANNOT BE REMOVED BY THE PATIENT AND MUST BE REMOVED BY THE DENTIST OR DENTAL HYGIENIST WITH SCALING INSTRUMENTS.
What is calculus?
200
THE ARTICULATION BETWEEN THE TEMPORAL BONES AND THE MANDIBLE FORM THIS.
What is the temporomandibular joint?
200
THE NUMBER OF TEETH PER QUADRANT IN THE PERMANENT DENTITION
What is eight?
300
IN THIS CLASSIFICATION OF DECAY, DECAY IS FOUND ON THE INTERPROXIMAL SURFACES OF POSTERIOR TEETH.
What is Class II?
300
THIS TYPE OF ANESTHESIA IS ACHIEVED BY INJECTING THE ANESTHETIC SOLUTION DIRECTLY INTO THE TISSUE AT THE SITE OF THE DENTAL PROCEDURE AND IS GENERALLY USED ON THE MAXILLARY TEETH.
What is an infiltration injection?
300
A POINT OF SUPPORT THAT WORKS AS A LEVER FOR MOVEMENT AND HELPING TO STEADY YOUR HAND WHILE WORKING.
What is a fulcrum?
300
THE U-SHAPED PROJECTION OF TISSUE AT THE POSTERIOR AREA OF THE SOFT PALATE.
What is the uvula?
300
THE NUMBER OF TEETH PER QUADRANT IN THE PRIMARY DENTITION.
What is five?
400
IN THIS CLASSIFICATION OF DECAY, DECAY IS FOUND BOTH INTERPROXIMALLY AND ALONG THE INCISAL EDGE OF ANTERIOR TEETH.
What is Class IV?
400
THE DENTIST ASKS YOU TO GET THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF VASOCONSTRICTOR IN A LOCAL ANESTHETIC THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS WHICH ONE WOULD YOU CHOOSE 1:20,000 1:50,000 1:100,000 1:200,000
What is 1:20,000?
400
THE STRENGTH OF AN ORGANISM IN ITS ABILITY TO PRODUCE DISEASE
What is virulence?
400
THE STRIP OF TISSUE THAT GOES FROM THE FLOOR OF THE MOUTH TO THE MIDLINE OF THE VENTRAL SURFACE THE TONGUE.
What is the lingual frenum?
400
WHAT TYPE OF TEETH IS NOT FOUND IN THE PRIMARY DENTITION.
What are premolars?
500
IN THIS CLASSIFICATION OF DECAY, DECAY IS FOUND ALONG THE INCISAL EDGE OF ANTERIOR TEETH AND THE CUSP OF POSTERIOR TEETH.
What is Class VI?
500
UPON UPDATING YOUR PATIENT'S MEDICAL HISTORY, YOU DISCOVER THAT THE PATIENT RECENTLY HAD A MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION. THE PATIENT WILL BE NEEDING TO RECEIVE LOCAL ANESTHESIA TODAY SO YOU WILL MAKE SURE NOT TO USE AN ANESTHETIC CONTAINING THIS KEY INGREDIENT.
What is a Vasoconstrictor?
500
THE ROUNDED ENAMEL EXTENSIONS ON THE INCISAL RIDGE OF NEWLY ERUPTED CENTRAL AND LATERAL INCISORS.
What is mamelons?
500
THE ANGLE OF THE CORNER OF THE MOUTH
What is the labial commissure?
500
THE LONGEST TEETH IN THE PERMANENT DENTITION.
What are the canines?