Home Care
You would recommend this to help a patient floss who has limited dexterity due to large hand size or arthritis.
**It is important to maintain good tension on the floss when using a floss holder.
An incipient penetration is an example of Class ___ furcation involvement.
This is the information included on a periodontal chart.
What is Class I?
What are the pocket reading in millimeters, furcations, tooth mobility, exudate (pus) and gingival recession?
*A furcation is the point at which the roots of a multirooted tooth diverge.
1. These are the building blocks of the body and essential for the growth and repair of body tissue.
2. These are the body's primary source of energy.
3. This is an essential part of the body tissues and helps regulate body temperature.
4. These are organic substances that are necessary in minute amounts for growth, development, and optimal health.
5. These are the major constituents of the bones and teeth.
1. What are proteins? Amino acids are part of proteins. Complete proteins include all 8 essential amino acids.
2. What are carbohydrates? Simple sugars, complex carbohydrates, and fibers
3. What is water? Often called the forgotten nutrient.
4. What are Vitamins?
5. What are minerals?
This is an instrument that may be used to cut and cauterize the tissue at the same time.
This instrument is the most common type of surgical knife used in periodontal surgery.
What is an electrosurgery unit?
What is a Kirkland knife?
The most common material an implant is made from is this.
True or False: It is important to educate your patients regarding home care instruction by using motivation, listening techniques, giving goals, and parental involvement when teaching children.
What is true?
*The best time to give instruction is when the patient is relaxed and receptive.
True or False: Checking a patients mobility uses a measuring technique.
What is True?
*Example: CL II=Moderate mobility
**All teeth have a slight degree of mobility.
These are the types of foods most likely to cause decay.
What are highly cariogenic foods?
*Cariogenic=producing or promoting dental decay
This type of surgery removes bone.
This type of surgery reshapes bone.
What is an ostectomy?
What is an osteoplasty?
True or False: the entire dental implant process may take 2 months to reach completion.
The most common process is usually 3-9 months for dental implants.
The recommended home care tx for a patient with ANUG is to brush _____ times per day and rinse with _________.
What is to brush 3x per day and rinse with diluted hydrogen peroxide?
1. On a paper perio chart bleeding is marked in this color.
2. Recording exudate on a paper perio chart would be done this way.
1. What is red?
*Example: If tooth #3 ML has a pocket depth of 4 or above you would write the number in red and circle it.
2. What is circle the number in blue?
Vitamins, benefits, where you get them from:
1. Vitamin A
2. Vitamin C
2. What are fruits and vegetables? *Important for healthy gingiva.
These structures make up the periodontium.
This is the definition of Periodontitis.
What are the sulcus, gingiva, bone, and epithelial attachment?
What is the inflammation of the supporting tissues of the teeth?
This is the success rate of dental implants.
This is how long a dental implant should last.
What is a lifetime?
This is how you would explain to a patient how to brush the occlusal surfaces.
This is how often a toothbrush should be cleansed.
What is to tell or show them a quick back and forth motion?
What is after each use?
Recession is recorded on a paper chart by doing this.
Arteriosclerosis is an example of a disease in a patient who may have a diet high in (sugar or cholesterol)?
What is cholesterol?
*The build-up of fats, cholesterol, and other substances in and on the artery walls.
These are some examples of systemic effects of periodontal disease.
A surgical stent is used for this during implant surgery.
Terminology:
1. Assists patients with limited dexterity
2. Cleanses under bridges and root furcations
3. Recommended for teeth with gingival recession
4. Effective in identifying plaque
1. What is a floss holder?
2. What is an interproximal brush?
3. What is a Perio Aid?
4. What is a disclosing agent?
A normal sulcus measures ______ or less.
Soft drinks have this effect on enamel.
This is the purpose of a periodontal pocket marker.
What is to make bleeding points as guides for surgical incisions?
These are the types of implants available.
This is the most common type.What is an endosteal implant or osseointegrated implant? *The titanium implants can be coated with hydroxyapatite, a ceramic substance that rapidly osseointegrates the implant to the bone.