Rubber Dam Flashcards

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What should be presented to tutors in the Paeds clinic?

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Age, gender, who’s attending with child

  • Purpose of visit + CC
  • MHx, SHx, DHx, previous x-rays
  • Clinical findings
  • Caries risk assessment
  • TMT plan (including prevention and recall)
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What are some advantages of rubber dam?

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  • Improve visibility by isolating teeth from cheeks and tongue
  • Allows treatraction of gingival tissues
  • Provides dry operating field
  • Protects patient from injury or aspiration
  • Increase patient comfort as prevent water, debris, material, instruments being excluded from mouth
  • Reduce microbial content of aerosols
  • Helps manage child behaviour
  • enhance delivery of nitrous oxide and oxygen when inhalation sedation used
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How should the first hole be placed in the rubber dam of the upper arch?

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  • 2.5cm horizontally from the edge

- Vertically divide rubber dam into thirds and put hole at one of the lines

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How should the first hole be placed in the rubber dam of the lower arch?

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  • Divide horizontally into half
  • Divide vertically into thirds
  • Put hole at intersection of these lines
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5
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What clamp is used for even quadrants

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12A

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What clamp is used for odd quadrants

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13A

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