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DH National Boards
Dental Hygiene National Board review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Amalgam is considered to be the only dental restorative material that improves its marginal sealing with age. True or False? | True |
| What describes the rate at which new disease cases occur. It gives the number of disease cases or people becoming ill during a given period in a specified population. | Incidence |
| What is the percentage of the population that has the disease or condition. It gives a figure for a factor at a single point in time. It can tell us only what is happening at a certain point. | Prevalence |
| The degree to which a disease process extends is defined as the? | Extent of that disease |
| What denotes the middle most number in a number series? | Median |
| What measures the average number or score among the numbers included in the data set. | Mean |
| What denotes the most prominent or the number that appeared the most in the number list. | Mode |
| What tests correctly classify a group of patients as being free of disease based on their results. This test show the group of patients which are suffering from a particular disease. | High specificity tests |
| This occurs when a disease is present and test indicates that no disease is present. | False Negative |
| What does DMFT, DMFS stand for? | D stands for decayed or carious tooth surfaces within the oral cavity M stands for missing tooth surfaces within the oral cavity F stands for filled surfaces within the oral cavity. S stands for surfaces T stands for teeth |
| An infection of an unusually large number of individuals in a population at a given time. | Epidemic |
| A worldwide infection, often highly contagious. | Pandemic |
| An infection persistently found at low levels in a specific population | Endemic |
| Antiseptic useful against both Gram + and Gram - bacteria. It is bacteriocidal and bacteristatic. IMPORTANT: It's the most effective oral antimicrobial because it sticks to the teeth, working long-term. | Chlorhexidine |
| Has long term action like chlorhexidine, but a bit shorter. Reduces gingivitis, and is antimicrobial during handwashing. | Triclosan |
| Foaming agent in toothpastes. Antimicrobial without the residual long term effects of chlorhexidine and triclosan. May cause gingival sloughing. | Sodium lauryl sulfate |
| Antimicrobial and antigingivitis agents. No long term action. Used in mouthwashes. | Phenolic and quaternary ammonium compounds |
| What is the right of a patient to own choice of treatment performed in a manner based on personal preference. | Autonomy |
| What kind of questions can be answered in unlimited ways and manner and usually requires elaborative and long answers. | Open questions |
| What kind of question is designed to verify particular information by leading a person to a suggested answer. | Leading question |
| What kind of question provides questions that may ask information from a specific detail to a more general information or vice versa. | Funnel Question |
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