Oral Cavity Dentition

Question 1

Anatomy of oral cavity

Answer 1

Question 2

What tooth number does the Red letter represent?

Answer 2

A. 8

B. 25

C. 16

D. 32

Question 3

Name the tooth that is associated with the red letter

Answer 3

A. central incisor

B. lateral incisor

C. Cuspid or canince

D. 1st premolar or bicuspid

E. 2nd premolar or bicuspic

F. 1st molar

G. 2nd molar

H. 3rd molar or wisdom tooth

Question 4

medical term for “without teeth, toothless”

Answer 4

edentuous

Question 5

what are some common dental prostheses?

Answer 5

1. caps
2. bridges
3. plates

Question 6

what are carious teeth?

Answer 6

a type of poor dentition, term for dental carie or decay

Question 7

what abnormal finding is this?

Question 8

what abnormal finding is this?

Answer 8

overbite

Question 9

If your patient still has their palantine tonsils, where would they be anatomically located

Answer 9

between palatoglossal arch (anteriorly) and palatopharyngeal arch (posteriorly)

Question 10

which teeth are most as risk to being damaged?

Answer 10

1. the teeth with abnormal findings (i.e. cracks, carries, prosthestics)
2. central incisors (in re: to damaging with intubation blade)

Question 11

what is the increased horizontal distance between the maxillary and mandibular central incisors

Answer 11

overjet

(think of HOJ- Horizontal OverJet)

Question 12

what is the increased vertical distance between the maxillary and mandibular central incisors?

Answer 12

overbite

(think of VOB - Vertical OverBite)

Question 13

how many deciduous (developing in children) teeth are there?

Answer 13

20

Question 14

how many permanent adult teeth are there?

Answer 14

32

Question 15

Your patient wears dentures, but they have been removed for the surgery. What will you do if you have a hard time getting a good seal when bag masking?

Answer 15

attempt to pull the skin up into the anesthesia face mask in order to get a good seal.

Question 16

which maxillary and mandibular molars are used to determine dental occlusions (i.e. retrognathism & prognathism)

Answer 16

3rd (both maxillary and mandibular)

Question 17

what is dental occlusion

Answer 17

means simply the contact between teeth. More technically, it is the relationship between the maxillary (upper) and mandibular (lower) teeth when they approach each other, as occurs during chewing or at rest.

Question 18

with normal dental occlusion, what is the relationship between the central maxillary incisors and the central madibular incisors

Answer 18

slight overlap with no overjet