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Tossed salad?
Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!
Fractured fairy tales
The elevator doesn't go all the way to the top
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100
It is used to immobilize the jaw following mandibular and/or maxillary fractures.
What are arch bars?
100
Mental protuberance.
What is a chin?
100
A fracture that is caused by high-speed blunt force to the globe and usually resuls from the increased orbital pressure caused by the impact on the globe.
What is an orbital floor fracture or blowout fracture?
100
It is used to loosen tooth or root from bony socket before use of extraction forceps. (Also the name of a vascular scissors used to enlarge incisions into vessels).
What is a Potts elevator?
100
It is also called a University of Minnesota retractor.
What is a Minnesota Cheek Retractor.
200
It is also called pyramidal maxillary fractures, they may be triangular or pyramidal.
What is a Le Fort II fracture?
200
It is the largest and strongest facial bone.
What is the mandible?
200
A horizontal fracture of the maxilla that causes the hard palate and alveolar process to become separated from the rest of the maxilla. It extends into the lower nasal septum, lateral maxillary sinus, and palatine bones.
What is a Le Fort I fracture?
200
Named after a water fowl, the working end has an upward angle with a pointed tip. Handles may be T-bar style or a design with a heavy tapering to the working end.
What is a Crane elevator?
200
A rubber wedge that has a rim on both sides into with the upper and lower teeth fit. The attached chain is to remove the wedge.
What is a Mouth Prop?
300
Diplopia and enopthalmos are characteristics.
What are orbital fractures?
300
The hardest part of the tooth.
What is the enamel?
300
A type of fracture that is pyramidal in shape and extends from the nasal bone to the frontal process of the maxilla, lacrimal bones, and inferior orbital floor and may extend into the anterior maxillary sinus and the pterygoid plates. It is also associated with leakage of CSF into the nasal sinuses.
What is a Le Fort II fracture?
300
Also called a flag elevator or root elevator. The working end is right or left with a triangular pointed tip.
What is a Cryer elevator?
300
A self retaining C-shaped retractor with blades that curve inward and ratcheted finger rings to hold in place. The rubber tubing slides onto the blades to protect the teeth and soft tissue.
What is a Molt Mouth Gag?
400
A gingivobuccal sulcus incision is used in this procedure to provide adequate exposure of the maxilla.
What is a Le fort I?
400
It is where the upper teath are located.
What is the maxilla?
400
A fracture that is the result of direct trauma to the frontal bone which may result in bone impaction and fragmentation. The most common causes are intentional violence and motor vehicle accidents.
What is a frontal sinus fracture?
400
A round trough-like tip in a range of sizes with a heavy rounded handle. (It is also a pulse point that you check when giving digitalis and other cardiac meds).
What is an Apical elevator?
400
Fine right-angle blades with a sharp tip. It is used for cutting and excising excess or diseased soft tissue.
What is a Dean scissor?
500
It is also called a craniofacial disjunction fracture.
What is a Le Fort III?
500
It is marked by rough, oblique ridges on each side, for the attachment of the masseter laterally, and the pterygoideus internus medially.
What is the mandibular angle?
500
A fracture involving separation of all of the facial bones from their cranial base, including fracture of the zygoma, maxilla, ad nasal bones. The fracture line extends through the ethmoid bone and bony orbit, with severe facial flattening and swelling.
What is a Le Fort III fracture?
500
It is used to retract gingival tissue; also used during incisional extraction to remove soft tissue from the tooth. (it's name is a direction).
What is a West Periosteal elevator?
500
One blade has a hook-like tip to slip under the suture to hold it away from tissue while cutting,.
What is a Spencer Suture scissor?