DENTAL HYGENE ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND

DENTAL HYGENE ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND

ANSWERS WITH CORRECT VERIFIED SOLUTIONS.

✅Pandemic. Answer: an epidemic that is geographically widespread

✅epidemic. Answer: regional outbreak of a disease

✅endemic. Answer: confined to a particular country or area

✅Rickettsia. Answer: a microorganism smaller than a bacterium but larger than a virus

✅MSDS. Answer: Material Safety Data Sheet

✅Airborne infection. Answer: droplet infection

✅Symptoms. Answer: the conditions that together tell a doctor what is wrong

✅Trismus (lockjaw). Answer: involves spasms of the jaw muscle and clenching of the teeth

✅dysphagia (bad to eat). Answer: difficulty swallowing

✅sialoadenitus (saliva gland itis). Answer: inflamed salivary gland

✅tic douloureux (trigeminal neuralgia). Answer: painful, sudden, spasmodic, involuntary contractions of the facial muscles supplied by the trigeminal nerve

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✅Bell's Palsy. Answer: temporary paralysis of the seventh cranial nerve that causes paralysis only on the affected side of the face

✅Labial commissure. Answer: corners of the mouth

✅Philtrum of the upper lip. Answer: flat portion of the upper lip in the midline just below the nose

✅vermillion border. Answer: line around the lips

✅labio-mental groove. Answer: groove between the lip and the chin

✅naso-labial groove. Answer: groove from the nose to the lip

✅Labial tubercle. Answer: A small projection in the middle of the upper lip that may enlarge or thicken

✅oral lesions. Answer: inflamed or infected patch of skin

✅Periocoronitis. Answer: Inflammation of the gingiva around a partially erupted tooth

✅ANUG (acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis). Answer: highly inflamed and dying gingival tissue AKA trench mouth

✅Cellulitis. Answer: Inflammation of cellular or connective tissue

✅fistula. Answer: pathway for pus to escape

✅Epulis. Answer: benign tumor arising from periodontal mucous membranes

✅aphthous ulcer (canker sore). Answer: small, painful ulcer within the mouth

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