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DEN 150
Chairside Assisting Final
Question | Answer |
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Supine Position | Reclined position with the nose and knees on the same plane |
Subsupine Position | Reclined position with the head lower than the feet |
Air-water syringe | Provides air, water, or a combined spray of air and water. The tip of the syringe is removable and made of disposable plastic or autoclavable metal |
Control for Handpiece | Controlled by a foot pedal called rheostat |
Class I motion | Involves only finger movement |
Class II Motion | Involves movement of the fingers and wrist |
Class III Motion | Involves finger, wrist,elbow movement |
Class IV Motion | Involves movement of the entire arm and shoulder |
Class V Motion | Involves movement of the arm and twisting of the body |
How to close an office | the responsible person stays after the last patiuent and makes sure that everything is turned off and the office is ready for patients the next day |
Flush Vacuum Lines | At the end of the day |
air compressor | Provides compressed air for the handpiece and air for the air water syringe |
Central Vacuum System | Provides suction for saliva ejections and oral evacuators at each dental unit |
Assistant positioned-operator | 4 to 6 inches. Asstant is positioned across from the operator on the opposite side of the patient |
Four-Handed Dentistry | When the dentist and assistant are working at the dental chair together |
Six-handed Dentistry | An additional assistant is needed to bring items to the treatment room, assist the assistant in mixing materials, or the help with a patient |
Treatment mandibular Arch dental light | The light is raised and the beam is directed downward |
Treatment maxillary Arch dental light | The light is lowerted and the beam is directed upward |
Assistant Feet | resting on a flat ring or tabular bar around the base of the stool just above the casters (wheels), and his or her thighs are parallel to the floor |
Operatory Room | Also called the dental treatment rooms |
Treatment Room | Also called the operatory room |
Class I Caries | 3 sides pits & fissure of the teeth occlusal surfaces of the posterior teeth |
Class II Caries | proximal (mesialor distal) surfaces on the posterior teeth (premolars & molars) |
Class III Caries | Interproximal surfaces (mesial & distal) of anterior teeth (canines, lateral incisors & central incisors) |
Class IV Caries | interproximal surfaces (mesial or distal) of anterior teeth & include the incisal edge |
Class V Caries | cervical third of the facial or lingual surface of the tooth. Caries V caries occur because the patient regularly sucks on sweets (gingival third) |
Class VI Caries | Caries were not part of original standard classification. of cavities. involve the incisal or occlusal surface that has been worn away due to abrasion |
Palmer | permanent teeth are #red 1 through 8 in each quadrant bracket is used to denote which quadrant it is referring to |
FDI | Permanent dentition is identified by a 1 for the upper right quadrant, 2 for the upper left quadrant, 3 for the lower left quadrant, 4 for the lower right quadrant |
Universal | Each permanent tooth has its own #, Starting form the maxillary right 3rd molar as 1 to maxillary left 3rd molar as 16 drops to mandibular left 3rd molar as 17 to mandibular right 3rd molar as 32 |
Red | Work to be done |
Blue | Work completed |
Crowns made of? | Gold, porcelain, gold and porcelain |
Amalgam | Outlined & filled solid blue or red |
Composite | Outlined in red or blue |
Completed RCT | line straight through root red or blue |
Implant | Lines on root blue or red |
Parts of a Dental Hand Instrument | Working end, shank, handle |
Hand Cutting Instruments | Angle formers, chisels, excavators, gingival margin trimmers, hatchets, hoes |
Excavator | Also known as "spoon excavators" are instruments used to remove various material and debris from the teeth. |
Uses of Mouth mirror | Indirect vision, reflection of light, retraction, transillumination |
Plastic Filling Instruments | Used to place and condense pliable restorative materials and to place cement bases in the cavity preparation. |
Round bur | Used first to open the cavity & remove carious tooth structures |
Contra-angle headpiece- shank | Latch type |
Inverted Cone Bur | Removes caries & makes undercuts in the preparation |
Abrasive materials: garnet, sand, emery, & cuttlefish | Sandpaper discs |
Bur placed where in hand piece | The chuck hold the shank portion of the bur in place |
Bur for the high speed | Friction-grip shank |
Tapered Fissure straight | Forms divergent walls of the cavity preparation |
Plain fissure cross cut | Forms the cavity walls of the preparation |
Diamond Burs | Rapid reduction of tooth structures during cavity preparations, polishing & finishing composite restorations, and occlusal adjustment |
Operator signals they are ready for exchange | Usually, this signal occurs when the operator tilts the instrument back away from the patient while still maintaining a folcrum |
Instrument transfer: right/ left handed operator | Assistant's left hand w/ a right handed operator Assistant's right hand w/ a left handed operator |
Pen grasp | Same manner as a pen or pencil. Used w/ angled shanks |
Modified Pen Grasp | Held with the same fingers as the pen grasp except that the pad of the middle finger is placed on the top of the inst. w/ the index finger. Proffered provides more control & strength used w/ angled shanks |
palm grasp | Holds inst. In the palm of the hand & fingers grasp the handle of the inst. Used w/ surgical pliers, rubber dam forceps, & other forceps |
Palm Thumb Grasp | Grasps handle of the inst. in the palm of the hand w/ the four fingers wrapped around the handle while the thumb is extended upward from the palm. Used w/ straight shanks & blades, such as chisels or the wedelstaedt chisel |
DA holds inst. to be transferred | Hold inst. to be passed parallel to the inst. held by the operator |
Maintaining the operation field-Requirements | Determined by the type of procedure, thru tooth or teeth being treated, oral anatomy of the patient, & the preferences of the operator |
Tissue retracted- field of vision | Retraction of the tongue cheeks lips & tissue is used to increase the field of vision in the oral cavity |
Stinson's duct-saliva | Dry angles |
During indirect Vision keep mirror cleared how? | Directing air w/ air/water syringe |
Grasp for posterior HVE | Thumb to nose grasp |
Grasp for anterior HVE | Pen or modified grasp |
Palpation | Feeling w/ fingers |
Etiology | Cause of disease |
Inflammatory Process | Erythema (redness), heat, edema (swelling), pain |
Blister | Raised area, usually oval or circular, filled w/ fluid that protects the damaged tissue |
Abscess | Concentrated area of pus formed as a result of infection by microorganisms |
Shingles | Herpes Zoster painful lesions that can last up to 5wk |
leukoplakia | White leathery patch that cannot be identified as any other type of lesion |
Kaposis Sarcoma | AID's patients present w/ an usual malignant vascular tumor |
Anodontia | Occurs when teeth are congenitally missing |
Hyperplasia | Ill-fitted dentures cause small ulcers that, after continued irritation become folds of excess tissue in the palatial area the rugs palatine become inflamed & swollen |
Bells palsy | Temporary paralysis of the muscles on one side of the face |
Ankylosis | Condition in which the tooth cementum or Dentin fuses w/ the alveolar bone, restricting movement of the tooth as well as eruption |
Gingival Hyperplasia | Occurs when the connective tissue grows over the tooth (Dilantin hyperplasia) |
Cancer warning signs | -sores,- lumps &swelling in lips & neck,- white lesions or rough,- Dryness in mouth, - numbness in or around mouth,- soreness or burning sensation,- difficulty chewing, speaking, or swallowing,- repeated bleeding |
Coolant from hand piece | Air, water, or an air water spray is used |
Classification for caries developed by? | G.V. Black (the "grand old man of dentistry") |
Upright Position | |
During Inst. Tranfer | |
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