February 2021 GD

A patient complains of recent severe pain to percussion of a tooth. The most likely cause is ….

Informed consent requires that the patient be advised of all of the following except one. Which one is the exception?

A fit and well 14- year-old adolescent girl has a well-circumscribed brown, pigmented area on her lower lip. She says that it is unchanged since she noticed it 2 years ago. Clinically, it is an isolated lesion, flush with the labial mucosa, and measuring 3 × 2 mm in size. What is the single most likely diagnosis?

A good preventive and treatment strategy for dental caries includes

When the gingival margin is gingival to the cementoenamel junction (CEJ) in a class II amalgam preparation, the axial depth of the axiogingival line angle should be.

A 60- year- old man attends a primary care dental practice with an ulcer on the ventral surface of his tongue for 4 weeks. The ulcer bleeds and causes discomfort when touched. He has a 35- pack-year smoking history. He has sharp, fractured teeth on the same side as the lesion. What is the single most appropriate management?

A 21- year- old woman attends the emergency Department, following lateral luxation of her upper right central incisor. A self-etch adhesive bonding system is used for composite splint placement, as no dental chair or water line is available. What single component of the bonding agent has been modified to avoid the need for a separate etching stage?

Which causes cervical burnout?

When a diagnosis of odontogenic keratocyst is made, the patient should be advised regarding the …..

Which of the following files is the most flexible

A 56- year- old man attends for construction of an upper partial cobalt-chromium (CoCr) denture. He has previously struggled to tolerate a full palatal coverage acrylic denture because of his gag reflex. The patient is a chemical engineer by trade and wishes to know what property of CoCr allows the provision of a thinner and less extensive major connector. Which single property of CoCr can facilitate this design?

How many blades does a finishing bur have compared with a cutting bur?

Chroma is the aspect of color that indicates …..

If a normal SNA is 82°. A patient has SNA 90° suggests:

Which of the following features are shared by central and peripheral giant cell granulomas?

A 22- year- old man attends for restoration of a large posterior class V cavity with glass-ionomer cement (GIC). Which single conditioning agent is the most appropriate to improve the bond strength of this material to the tooth structure?

The treatment of choice in peri- implantities case is…..

Gingival enlargement covering three quarters or more of the clinical crown is classified as

All of the following are correct with regards to the treatment of a diastema except:

The severity of the course of a periradicular infection depends on the…….

Butterfly rash ( Malar rash ) is most often seen in……

The supplemental fluoride daily dosage schedule for a 5-year-old child who lives in a community where the concentration of fluoride in the drinking water is less than 0.3 ppm is …

Substantivity is the prolonged association between a material and a substrate ( Biofilm and Tooth structure ) An example of such materials is

Prolonged, unstimulated night pain suggests which of the following conditions of the pulp?

Smooth surface caries refer to ……

The generally accepted maximum thickness of a composite increment that allows for proper cure is …..

peri-implantities has many etiological factors, one of these is the foreign body reaction, like:…….

Chemo-Mechanical caries is achieved through which of the following…..

A patient came to the clinic complaining about his tight denture. The clinical examination showed that the oral tissues are healthy and the denture is good but when the patient stand we notice that his legs are curved. What is the diagnosis?

Which of the following statements best describes pulpal A-delta fibers compared with C fibers?

Drug-induced gingival overgrowth is a side effect associated principally with

A 15- year- old girl attends the Emergency Department at the local dental hospital. She suffers from type 1 diabetes mellitus. Damage to which single cell type in the pancreas would lead to the patient’s condition?

Which of the following disinfectants can be used with alginate impressions?

What is a nonrigid connector?

The primary reason for designing a surgical flap with a wide flap base is to

Two cystic radiolucencies in the mandible of a 16-year old boy were lined by thin, parakeratinized epithelium showing palisading of basal cells. All teeth were vital, and the patient had no symptoms. This patient most likely has which of the following?

A clinical differential diagnosis of an asymptomatic submucosal lump or nodule in the tongue would include all of the following except one. Which one is the exception?

Antibiotic Prophylaxis for infective endocarditis patients with penicillin allergy is

A 26- year- old man returns 1 week after having a deep amalgam restoration in his lower right first molar (Lr6). The patient experienced shooting pain that lasted for a few seconds when drinking cold drinks. The restoration was removed by an emergency dentist and replaced with zinc oxide eugenol (ZOe). What is the primary benefit of using this material in this situation?

Which of the following skin neoplasms is benign?