JVD Vet Dentist at Work Flashcards

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Why was RCT chosen over VPT for the crown height reduction of the mandibular canine?

2011, issue 2

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Mature tooth with closed apex, VPT recommended by this author only in immature teeth to avoid pulpitis in mature tooth

Also quoted 94% success rate of RCT vs 88% success rate of VPT

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What % does Gutta Flow expand when set?

2011, issue 2

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0.2%

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What is the second most common reason for rodents and lagomorphs to present to veterinarians
2011, Issue 1

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Oral abscesses secondary to malocclusion or periodontal disease

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In the article “Crown reduction and root canal therapy for malocclusion in a dog,” how was obturation performed?

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Placement of an apical gutta percha plug, followed by Lentulo spiraler and cold flowable filing system, and gutta percha master cone

2011, Issue 2

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Cranial mandibular osteopathy affects what breeds of dogs?

JVD 2011, issue 4

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Cranial mandibular osteopathy preferentially affects West Highland White and Cairn terrier dogs and is caused by an autosomal recessive gene

the article was on unilateral Mandibular Hyperostosis in a Cat

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What disease process is most likely in this photo and radiograph?

JVD 2011, Issue 4

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Mandibular hyperostosis

“Unilateral Mandibular Hyperostosis in a Cat”

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What obturation method was used in the adult female polar bear canine tooth RCT?

JVD 2012, issue 1

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heated vertical and lateral condensation techniques

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The following image depicts what obturation technique?

JVD 2012, Issue 1. Endodontic therapy in a polar bear. Legendre

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File coated with heated gutta percha introduced to apex and turned counterclockwise to back out of gutta percha. Repeated to pack homogenous mass of gutta percha into apical 5mm of canal

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In Menzies’s 2012 Vet Dentist at Work article “Developmental Tooth Anomaly in a Cat,” what was the development tooth anomaly?

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Double crowned left maxillary third premolar tooth with three well formed roots

fusion vs gemination

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What is the difference between concresence and fusion?

JVD 2012, Issue 2 Developmental Tooth Anomaly in a Cat, Menzies

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Concresence involves sharing of cementum between adjacent teeth.
Fusion involves sharing of both cementum and dentin and sometimes also enamel.

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What is the difference between fusion/concresence with gemination and with twinning?

JVD 2012, Issue 2 Developmental Tooth Anomaly in a Cat, Menzies

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Concresence and fusion involve the union of tooth buds, gemination involves partial cleavage of a tooth bud, twinning relates to the complete cleavage of tooth bud.

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In the image below what do the short white arrows, black arrows heads, short black arrows, black double ended arrow, black dotted line, black dashed circle, white dotted circle, white dotted line represent?

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Short white arrows: caudal border of maxillary/nasal recess
Black arrow heads: junction between the body of the maxilla and its palatine process
Short black arrows: ventral rim of orbit
Black double ended arrow: zygomatic arch
Black dotted line: infraorbital canal
Black dashed circle: sphenopalatine foramen
White dotted circle: caudal palatine foramen
White dotted line: laterocaudal notch of palatine bone

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In Mulherin’s description of a modified symphyseal separation wiring technique, where did the wires twist together?

JVD 2012, issue 3

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Intraorally distal to a canine tooth - acrylic bead applied to protect soft tissues

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What anatomic structure needs to be protected when performing a commisurotomy in a minature horse?

JVD 2012 issue 4

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Salivary duct papilla

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How many roots does the mandibular P4 in the minipig have?

JVD 2012, issue 2

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3 roots

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In Mulherin’s 2012 article “An alternative symphsyeal wiring technique,” what were the reasons the alternative technique was selected?

JVD 2012, Issue 3

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The intraoral technique is a semi-rigid form of fixation which would permit accomodation to dog’s malocclusion.
Reduced anesthesia and surgical time for wire removal

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Which nerve innervates the maxillary teeth

JVD 2012, Issue 4, Maxillary Molar Tooth Extraction in the Dog, Vall.

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Caudal superior alveolar nerve

Branches from the infraorbital nerve prior to its entrance into the infraorbital canal

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What extraction technique(s) was utilized to extract the 109 and 209 in this Dwarf MIniature Pony?

JVD 2012, Issue 4.

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Bilateral commissurotomies and intraoral extraction

JVD 2012, Issue 4. Commissurotomy for Oral Access and Tooth Extraction in a Dwarf Miniature Pony. Wilson.

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What are the advantages of overimpression methods for temporary crown fabrication vs the direct application method?

JVD 2013, Issue 1. “Temporary Crowns,” Carle, Shope

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Smoother surface
Better marginal fit
thinner crown less likely to interfere with occlusion

20
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What dental anomaly was discovered in Eubanks’ 2013 article “Dental Anatomy, Radiography, and extraction of mandibular premolar teeth in Yucatan Minipigs,” and what was the most commonly encountered extraction complication?

JVD 2013, Issue 2

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Unilateral supernumerary peg-like single rooted teeth between mandibular fourth premolar and first molar teeth
Root fracture secondary to slender, curved roots

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How did the practitioner bond the inclined plane to the teeth after shaping the appliance outside the mouth?

JVD 2013, issue 3

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Applied bonding agent to the teeth, placed the shaped acrylic, then light cured through the acrylic

22
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Why was a prosthetic applicance pursued in Edstrom’s 2014 article “Prosthetic Appliance for Oronasal Communication Obturation in a Dog,” and what appliance was used?

JVD 2014, Issue 2

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Patient history of immune mediated disease, ischemic dermatopathy, and friable palatal tissue
Nasal septal silicone button

23
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What dental disorder was diagnosed in a sea lion causing the team to extract the affected tooth?

JVD 2014, issue 2

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Tooth resorption

24
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In this histomicrograph from a 6-month-old Chianina calf with mandibular odontoameloblastoma, identify the structure at the center of the image:

JVD 2013, issue 4

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Developing enamel organ

Based on the presence of both complex odontoma (disarrayed dental hard tissues) and ameloblastoma-like patterns, the tumor was diagnosed as an odontoameloblastoma (OA).

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What is the histologic difference between odontoameloblastoma (OA) and Ameloblastic fibro-odontoma (AFO)?

JVD 2013, issue 4

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OA: well differentiated, mature, dense and fibrous in OA
AFO:highly cellular and immature, similar to embryonic mesenchyme of the dental papilla

AFO most common odontogenic tumor in cattle

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What are the tissues of the biologic width you must preserve when doing an apically repositioned flap?

JVD 2014 issue 3

A

gingival sulcus, junctional epithelium, connective tissue attachment

27
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What is the “dentary” of a bird’s beak?

JVD 2014 issue 4

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the boney mandibular symphysis connecting right and left sides of lower beak

The maxillary beak consists of a fusion of the premaxilla, maxilla, and nasal bones

28
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What dental pathology was also being treated in the case of a 15 year old donkey with gingival hyperplasia buccal to the right maxillary arcade?

JVD 2015 issue 1

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Shear mouth

29
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In the report of an odontogenic tumor in a Siberian tiger, what tumors did they note are NOT inductive towards connective tissue (mesenchyme)

JVD 2015 issue 2

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Ameloblastoma and calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor (now known as APOT or APA - Amyloid Producing Ameloblastoma)

30
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What are contraindications for tape muzzle therapy?

“Management of Temporomandibular joint luxation in a cat using a custom-made tape muzzle,” Somrak, Manfra Marretta, JVD 2015, Issue 4.

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Canine teeth fractures that prevent interdigitation
brachycephalic breeds
Pre-existing or post-traumatic respiratory distress
Vomiting or regurgitation
bilateral mandibular fractures
complicated or severely displaced or communited fractures

31
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What was this mass and its suspected etiology?

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Gingival hyperplasia in a donkey secondary to shear mouth and the resultant feed entrapment

“Focal gingival hyperplasia in a donkey,” JVD 2015, Issue 1

32
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What % of the cross-sectional diameter of the rostral mandible does the mandibular canine occupy?

JVD 2016 issue 2 extract maxC for MAL2

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80%

extraction of maxC avoided complications with extraction mandC

33
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Which way does the mandible shift (away or towards affected TMJ) in caudovental luxation and rostrodorsal luxation (unilateral)?

JVD 2015 issue 4

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unilateral rostrodorsal TMJ luxation causes the mandibles to shift to the side contralateral to the luxation
unilateral caudoventral luxation causes the mandibles to shift caudally and toward the luxated side

34
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Impression smears were obtained of this lesion resulting in expression of a chalky white material, what diagnosis is most consistent with this lesion?

A

Calcinosis circumscripta

Mouzakitis, “Carbon Dioxide Laser Excision of Lingual Calcinosis Circumscripta in a Dog,” JVD 2015, Issue 3

35
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The end point for lateral approach for excision of a sublingual sialocele is which structure identified with the white arrowhead?

Smith, “Lateral Approach for Surgical Management of Feline Sublingual Sialocele,” JVD 2015, Issue 3

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Lingual nerve

36
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What type of gingival defect was treated in Skinner’s 2017 article “Semilunar Coronally Advanced Periodontal Flap to Increase Soft Tissue Coverage of a Maxillary Fourth Premolar in a Dog?”

JVD 2017, Issue 2

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Miller Class 1 gingival recession:

37
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In Ng’s 2017 case of endodontic rhinlithiasis in a cat extracted via a transalveolar approach, which type of rhinolith was it?

JVD 2017 issue 4

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Endogenous, which is more rare than exogenous

38
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In the semilunar flap described in 2017 to correct a gingival recession of 4 at buccal 108, where does the flap remain attached to surrounding gingiva?

JVD 2017 issue 2

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At the interdental margin

Semilunar flap
Partial thickness incision
Release periosteum coronal to mucosal incision
Maintain 2-3mm of gingva at the interdental papilla
Raise gingiva within flap to full thickness
Replace gingiva coronally – hold for 5 mins
Leave periosteum to 2nd intention healing

39
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The white arrow demonstrates what lesion?

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endogenous rhinolithiasis

Ng, Fiani, Peralta. “Suspected Rhinolithiasis Associated With Endodontic Disease in a Cat.” JVD 2017, Issue 4.

40
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Define tooth transposition and its reported prevalence

Transposition of Mandibular Molars in a Dog
Allison Woody, DVM JVD 2018 issue 1

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rare anomaly resulting in the interchanged position of 2 permanent teeth
prev in humans 0.3-0.4%

41
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What clamp type provides better access to canine premolar teeth due to crown shape?

JVD 2018 issue 2 Dental Dam Application for Endodontics in Dogs—A Novel Clamp Kit

A

Butterfly clamp

42
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This image demonstrates what dental anomaly?

A

Transposition of 310 and 311

First report in a dog of this anomaly

43
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In King and Marretta’s description of caudal mandibular fracture repairs in cats, what approach was used to facilitate access to place the intraosseous wires across the fractures located caudal to mandM1?

JVD 2023, issue 1

A

Commisurotomy

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In Limone’s description of a Transcutaneous Lateral Alveolar Ostectomy of a mandibular M1, the bone window created was to expose what anatomy of the tooth?

JVD 2020, issue 1

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Furcation and mesial and distal roots
Alveolar crest left intact

45
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Which of the following is necessary for a bone graft’s survival in GTR?
A. Osteocondunction
B. Osteoinduction
C. Osteogenesis
D. Osteointegration

JVD 2019 issue 4

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D. Osteointegration – bonding of the host and the graft material, resulting in new bone present in the graft

Osteogenesis is the formation of new bone by cells found within the graft.
Osteoinduction is a chemical process by which molecules, such as bone morphogenic protein, in the graft convert neighboring cells into bone-producing osteoblasts.
Osteoconductive grafts have no biological influence on surrounding tissues, they form a scaffold onto which migrating cells can form new bone

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What does acid etching do to dentin?

JVD 2018. issue 3. Vet tech at work…CHR and VPT…

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Acid etching of the teeth with a 37% phosphoric acid gel removes the smear layer from dentin and exposes collagen that resin will attach to