Risk of Factors Flashcards

1
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Name 3 risk factors for periodontitis:

A

1-Tobacco smoking
2-Diabetes
3-Pathogenic bacteria

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2
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True or False: Negative effects of smoking on the host are reversible.

A

True

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3
Q

What to do to decrease the risk for periodontitis after smoking?

A

increase the number of years since quitting smoking

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4
Q

True or False: Former smokers respond to periodontal therapy similarly to nonsmokers

A

True

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5
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5As of Treating Tobacco Dependency:

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  • Ask the patient about smoking status
  • Advise smokers of the associations between oral disease and smoking
  • Assess the patient’s interest to attempt to quit
  • Assist the patient in the attempt
  • Arrange for referral or follow- up visit
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6
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True or False: Direct relationship between diabetes and periodontitis.

A

True

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7
Q

What are the complications of diabetes that affect periodontitis as well:

A

microvascular and macrovascular diseases

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8
Q

Side effects of Poorly controlled diabetics:

A

• Altered immune function
(PMNs)
• Qualitative changes in bacteria
• Altered collagen structure and function
• Severe gingival inflammation, deep pockets, rapid bone loss, and periodontal abscesses

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9
Q

Name anatomic factors that harbor bacterial plaque:

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  • Furcations
  • Root concavities
  • Grooves
  • Cervical enamel projections
  • Enamel pearls
  • Overhanging margins
  • Calculus
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10
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Risk Factor that is non-modifiable in periodontitists:

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  • Age
  • Gender
  • Genetic Factors
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Stress
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11
Q

Genetic factors influence which disease:

A

gingivitis,
attachment loss,
bone height,

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12
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How genetic factors influence periodontitis:

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  • Alterations in neutrophils, monocytic hyperresponsiveness associated with severe periodontitis
  • Alterations in IL-1 genes are one of several involved in periodontitis
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13
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True or False: Periodontitis Prevalence and severity increase with age:

A

True

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14
Q

How stress becomes the risk factor for periodontitis:

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  • Emotional stress may interfere with normal immune function
  • Stressful events lead to greater prevalence of periodontal disease
  • Increased incidence of necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis during periods of high stress
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15
Q

What are risk indicators of Periodontitis?

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  • Infrequent dental visits
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Osteoporosis
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16
Q

True or False: In healthy subjects, % BOP sites has a linear relationship with probing force.

A

True

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17
Q

True or False: Maybe environmental, behavioral, or biological.

A

True

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18
Q

True or False: Risk factors are identified by longitudinal studies of patients with the disease of interest.

A

True

19
Q

True or False: To be considered a risk factor, the exposure must occur before disease onset.

A

True

20
Q

How many carcinogens have been known for smoking tobacco?

A

60

21
Q

What is the major risk factor for periodontitis and affects the prevalence, extent, and severity of the disease?

A

Smoking

22
Q

True or False: There is a dose-response relationship between smoking and the prevalence and severity of periodontitis.

A

True.

23
Q

Effect of smoking on gingivitis.

A

Decreasing gingival inflammation and bleeding on probing.

24
Q

Effect of smoking on periodontitis.

A
  • Increasing the prevalence and severity of periodontal destruction.
  • Increase of pocket depth, attachment loss, and bone loss.
  • Increase of the rate of periodontal destruction
  • Increase in prevalence of severe periodontitis
  • Increase in tooth loss
  • Increase in prevalence with an increased number of cigarettes smoked per day.
  • Decrease of prevalence and severity with smoking cessation.
25
Q

5As for treating tobacco dependency.

A
  • Ask the patient about smoking status
  • Advise smokers of the associations between oral disease and smoking.
  • Assess the patient’s interest in attempting to quit
  • Assist the patient in the attempt.
  • Arrange for a referral or follow up visit
26
Q

True or False: There is a direct relationship between diabetes and periodontitis.

A

True

27
Q

True or False: No difference between type 1 and 2.

A

True

28
Q

Which disease causes the 6th complication of diabetes:

A

Periodontal disease.

29
Q

Which complications are after periodontitis and diabetes?

A
  • Microvascular

- Macrovascular

30
Q

The consequences of poorly controlled diabetics.

A
  • Altered immune function (PMNs)
  • Qualitative changes in bacteria
  • Altered collagen structure and function
  • Severe gingival inflammation, deep pockets, rapid bone loss, and periodontal abscesses
31
Q

Name the anatomic factors that harbor bacterial plaque.

A
  • Furcations
  • Root concavities
  • Grooves
  • Cervical enamel projections
  • Enamel pearls
  • Overhanging margins
  • Calculus
32
Q

Name risk factors that are non-modifiable.

A
  • Gender
  • Age
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Genetic factors
  • Stress
33
Q

Which gum conditions are affected by genetic factors based on the twin studies?

A
  • Gingivitis
  • Attachment loss
  • Bone height
34
Q

Which blood conditions were associated with severe periodontitis in twin studies?

A

Alteration in neutrophils, monocytic hyperresponsiveness.

35
Q

Does the prevalence and severity of non-modifiable risk factors increase with age?

A

Yes.

36
Q

Which gender has more attachment loss and higher levels of plaque and calculus?

A

Men due to preventive practice of oral hygiene

37
Q

True or False: Increased incidence of necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis during periods of high stress.

A

True

38
Q

Name 3 risk indicators of periodontitis.

A
  • OSTEOPOROSIS
  • HIV/AIDS
  • INFREQUENT DENTAL VISITS
39
Q

Which risk indicator causes the increased periodontal pocket formation and loss of attachment, and oral lesions prominent?

A

HIV/AIDS

40
Q

Name oral and periodontal manifestations of HIV infection.

A
  • Oral candidiasis
  • Linear gingival erythema
  • Oral hairy leukoplakia
  • Kaposi Sarcoma and other malignancies
  • Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (ANUG)
  • Necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis and periodontitis.
  • Chronic periodontitis
41
Q

Name the risk indicator that doesn’t initiate periodontitis.

A

Osteoporosis

42
Q

Which risk indicator causes the periodontal disease progression by reducing bone mass?

A

Osteoporosis

43
Q

Name risk markers/predictors:

A
  • Previous history of periodontal disease

- Bleeding on probing

44
Q

True or False: Severe existing loss of attachment is a predictor of future loss of attachment.

A

True.