Destiny Daniels Flashcards
What is it called when the prothesis causes irritation and sore spots in the mouth?
Pressure Points
What can cause a failed implant?
Patient health and lifestyle, improper selection of implant, and fracture of the bone
When the patient has a chief complaint about their tooth being sensitive when biting is called?
Subjective examination
Involves scraping or cleaning the gingival lining of the pocket with a sharp curette to remove necrotic tissue from the pocket wall and can also be referred as?
Gingival Curettage and referred as Subgingival curettage
To dislocate a tooth from the socket?
Luxate
Refers to the child’s level of intellectual capacity and development ?
Mental Age
What instrument guides the elastic or wire ligature around the bracket?
Ligature director
On the dental dam punch what is size 3 used for?
Premolars
To help people of all ages take good care of their oral health is?
Preventive Dentistry
Why do you have to make sure your patient understands the difference between a temporary crown and a permanent crown?
Temporary crowns are used with temporary cement so they can’t floss how they normally would or eat certain things because it might come off, so you can’t teach them the same but still have to take good care of them.
If the dentist prescribed a patient with antibiotics and they don’t feel any pain anymore, and they still have some pills left is it okay for them to stop taking them.
No, they have to take them until they are gone