Ortho Compre Flashcards
1.This branch of orthodontics recognizes the early existence of malocclusion or mallormation.
a. Preventive
b. Interceptive
c. Corrective
d. Surgical
b. Interceptive
- This is a scope of orthodontics where functional appliances and the latest orthognathic techniques are used to possibly move entire jaws into more favorable positions
a. Functional Efficiency
b. Structural Balance
c. Altering Soft tissue Envelope
d. Altering Skeletal Pattern
d. Altering Skeletal Pattern
- The timely removal of retained deciduous teeth, and use of space maintainers after premature loss of deciduous teeth are under what branch of Orthodontics?
a. Corrective
b. Interceptive
c. Preventive
d. Surgical
c. Preventive
- All are included in Jackson’s Triad, except?
a. The orthodontic treatment should increase the efficiency of the functions performed by the stomatognathic system.
b. The treatment should maintain balance between structures, and the correction of one should not be detrimental to the health of another
c. Orthodontic treatment entails the tolerance of deleterious local habits.
d. The orthodontic treatment should increase the overall esthetic appeal of the individual.
c. Orthodontic treatment entails the tolerance of deleterious local habits.
- He stressed the importance of root movement and was one of the first to use elastics for treatment
a. Calvin Case
b. Philp Pfoll
c. Edward Angle
d. Pierre Fauchard
a. Calvin Case
- Orthodontic treatment involves the repositioning of teeth by functional and mechanical means to establish normal occlusion and pleasing facial contour. this is the basis of
a. orthopedic change
b. Jackson’s triad
c. corrective orthodontics
d. Esthetic hamony
c. corrective orthodontics
- All are contributions of E.H Angle,except?
a. Edgewise Appliance
b. Bandelete
c. Pin and tube appliance
d. a school of orthodontics
b. Bandelete
- A habit that was acknowledged as a cause of dental abnormalities as early as 1834.
a. tounge thrusting
b. teeth grinding
c. thumbsucking
d. bruxism
c. thumbsucking
- The orthodontic treatment should increase the efficiency of the functions performed by the stomatognathic system. This recognizes the aim of orthodontics for structural balance.
a. The first statement is true. The second statement is false.
b. The first statement is false. The second statement is true.
c. Both statements are true.
d. Both statements are false.
b. The first statement is false. The second statement is true.
- An orthodontic treatment that highly considers the alignment of teeth but neglects the patient ‘s occlusion fails to achieve what aim/s of orthodontics?
a. functional efficiency only
b. Structural balance only
c Esthetic harmony and structural balance
d. Functional efficiency and structural balance
d. Functional efficiency and structural balance
- Proves that there is an axis of increased growth extending from the head toward the
a Differential growth
b. Scammon’s growth curve
c. Cephalocaudal gradient of growth
d. Growth spurts
c. Cephalocaudal gradient of growth
- In fetal life, the head takes up about how many percent of the total body length?
a. 12%
b. 25%
c. 40 %
d. 50%
d. 50%
- Tissues that reach up to 200% adult size in late childhood (200% by 14 year) and involute around the order of puberty
a. Neural
b. Somatic
c. General
d. lymphoid
d. lymphoid
- It indicates the degree of difference between two growing individuals in all four planes of space including time
a. Pattern
b. Growth spurts
c. Variability
d. Differential growth
c. Variability
- Orthognathic surgery should be carried out
a. During growth spurts
b. At mixed dentition period
c. After growth ceases
d. At any period
c. After growth ceases
- Offers the best time for majority of cases in terms of predictability, treatment direction, anagement and treatment time.
a Mixed dentition
b. Pubertal growth spurt
c. Infantile growth spurt
d. After growth ceases
b. Pubertal growth spurt
- The movement of the mandible by displacement
a. Downward and backward
b. Downward and forward
c. Posteriorly and inferiorly
d. Inferiorly only
b. Downward and forward
- Displacement of bone as a result of growth and enlargement of adjacent bone/bones.
a. Initial displacement
b. Secondary displacement
c. Primary displacement
d. Tertiary displacement
b. Secondary displacement
- Argued that the growth in the sutures was secondary and entirely dependent on the growth of the cartilage and adjacent soft tissues.
a. Cartilaginous theory
b. Sutural dominance theory
c. functional matrix theory
d. Interstitial matrix hypothesis
a. Cartilaginous theory
- These are spread all along the bone in a mosaic pattern, are responsible for producing an alteration in the growing bone.
a. Growth fields
b. Growth centers
c. Growth sites
d. Growth surfaces
a. Growth fields
- Growth of long bones by the epiphyseal plates are examples of
a. Growth fields
b. Growth centers
c. Growth sites
d. Growth surfaces
b. Growth centers
- The movement of teeth by orthodontic tregiment is a mechanism of
a. Cortical drift with movement towards the depository side
b. Cortical drift with movement towards the resorption side
c. Secondary displacement towards the tension side
d. Spontaneous movement
b. Cortical drift with movement towards the resorption side
- Bony pillars for reinforcement in the maxilla, except:
a. Zygomatic buttress
b. Canine buttress
c. Palate
d. Maxillary tuberosity
c. Palate
- Longitudinal canal structures within the compact bone that run side by side ar oriented along lines of force transmission.
a. Haversian systems
b. Trajectories
c. Trabeculae
d. Cartilage
a. Haversian systems