Which of the following is true regarding crowding of dentition?
a. Crowding of the primary dentition usually resolves as the permanent teeth erupt.
b. Spacing in the primary dentition usually indicates spacing will be present in the adult.
c. Approximately 15% of adolescents have crowding severe enough to consider extraction of permanent teeth as part of treatment.
d. Lower incisor crowding is more common in African-American that white populations.
c. Approximately 15% of adolescents have crowding severe enough to consider extraction of permanent teeth as part of treatment.
According to Scammon’s growth curves, which of the following tissues has a growth increase that can be used to help predict timing of the adolescent growth spurt?
a. Neural tissues c. Reproductive tissues
b. Lymphoid tissues
c. Reproductive tissues
An adult patient with Class II molar relationship and cephalometric ANB angle of 2 degrees has which type of malocclusion?
a. Class II dental malocclusion b. Class II skeletal malocclusion c. Class I dental malocclusion
d. Class II skeletal malocclusion
a. Class II dental malocclusion
Which of the following reactions is least likely to be observed during orthodontic treatment?
a. Root resorption c. Mobility of teeth that are moved
b. Devitalization of teeth that are moved d. development of occlusal interferences
b. Devitalization of teeth that are moved
Class II elastics are used by stretching an elastic between which of the two following points?
a. From the posterior to the anterior within the maxillary arch.
b. From the posterior to the anterior within the mandibular arch.
c. From the posterior of the maxillary arch to the anterior of the mandibular arch.
d. From the posterior of the mandibular arch to the anterior of the maxillary arch.
d. From the posterior of the mandibular arch to the anterior of the maxillary arch.
Which of the following depicts the usual order of extraction is chosen as the treatment to alleviate severe crowding?
a. Primary second molars, primary first molars, permanent first premolars, primary canines
b. Primary canines, primary first molars, permanent first premolars.
c. Primary first molars, primary first molars, primary canines
d. Primary canines, permanent canines, primary first molars, permanent first premolars
Answer: b. Primary canines, primary first molars, permanent first premolars.
b. Primary canines, primary first molars, permanent first premolars.
Reduction of overbite can be accomplished most readily by which of the following tooth movements?
a. Intruding maxillary incisors
b. Uprighting maxillary and mandibular incisors
c. Using a high-pull headgear to the maxillary molars
d. Using lip bumper
a. Intruding maxillary incisors
During an emergency dental visit in which a tooth is to be extracted due to extensive pulpal involvement, a moderately mentally challenged 5-year old child becomes physically combative. The parents are unable to calm the child. What should the dentist do?
a. Discuss the situation with the parents.
b. Force the nitrous oxide nosepiece over the child’s mouth and nose.
c. Use the hand over mouth exercise
d. Use a firm voice control.
a. Discuss the situation with the parents.
The enamel rods in the gingival third of primary teeth slope occlusally instead of cervically as in permanent teeth, and the interproximal contacts of primary teeth are broader and wider than permanent teeth.
a. The first statement is true and the second statement is true.
b. The first statement is true and the second statement is false.
c. The first statement is false and the second statement is true.
d. The first statement is false and the second statement is false.
a. The first statement is true and the second statement is true.
The mother of a 5-year-old patient is concerned about the child’s thumb-sucking habit. Six months ago, the patient had 5-mm overjet and a 3-mm anterior open bite. Today, the patient has 10% overbite and 3.5-mm overjet. The mother says that the child only sucks his thumb every night when falling to sleep. Of the following which is the best advice?
a. Refer to a speech pathologist.
b. Recommend tongue thrust therapy.
c. Recommend a thumb-sucking appliance.
d. Counsel the parent regarding thumb-sucking, and recall the patient in 3 months.
d. Counsel the parent regarding thumb-sucking, and recall the patient in 3 months.
Your patient is 4 years old. Tooth E was traumatically intruded and visible clinically. What is your treatment of choice?
a. Reposition and splint
b. Reposition and splint, and primary endodontics.
c. Reposition and splint, and formocresol pulpotomy.
d. none of the above.
d. none of the above.
A young permanent incisor with an open apex has a pinpoint exposure due to a traumatic injury that occurred 24 hours previously. The best treatment is ________.
a. Place calcium hydroxide non the pinpoint exposure.
b. Open the pulp chamber to find healthy pulp tissue and perform a pulpectomy.
c. Iniatiate a calcium hydroxide pulpectomy
d. Initiate conventional root canal treatment with gutta-percha
b. Open the pulp chamber to find healthy pulp tissue and perform a pulpectomy.
Which of the following types of malocclusions is most common?
a. Class I malocclusion c. Class III malocclusion
b. Class II malocclusion d. Open bite malocclusion
a. Class I malocclusion
Of the following, which is the last reliable way to predict the timing of the peak of the adolescent growth spurt for an individual?
a. plong changes in height over time on a growth curve
b. Following eruption timing of the dentition
c. taking a hand-wrist radiograph to assess skeletal development
d. Observing changes in secondary sex characteristics
b. Following eruption timing of the dentition
Children in the primary dentition most often present with _______.
a. increased overbite c. ideal overbite
b. decreased overbite d. significant open bite
b. decreased overbite
A patient with the maxillary first permanent molar mesiobuccal cusp sing distal to the buccal groove of the mandibular first molar has which type if malocclusion?
a. Class I c. Class II, division 2
b. Class II, division 1 d. Class III
d. Class III
In a patient who displays excessive maxillary incisor at rest, has excessive lower face height, and has a deep overbite, which of the following would be the preferred method of overbite correction?
a. Eruption of posterior teeth to rotate the mandible open
b. Intrusion of maxillary incisors
c. Intrusion of mandibular incisors
d. Flaring of maxillary and mandibular incisors
b. Intrusion of maxillary incisors
Which of the following reactions is least likely to be observed during orthodontic treatment?
a. Root resorption
b. Devitalization of teeth that are moved
c. Mobility of teeth that are moved
d. Development of occlusal interferences. rotation, tipping, or torque?
a. Center of rotation c. Center of the bracket tooth without
b. Center of resistance d. Apex of the root
b. Devitalization of teeth that are moved
Two equal and opposite forces that are not collinear applied to a tooth are called which of the following?
a. center resistance c. Root movement
b. center of rotation d. A couple
b. Center of resistance
A wire extending from the molars to the incisors is activated to intrude the incisors. What is the side effect on the molars?
a. molars will tip forward and intrude b. molars will rotate mesiobucally c. molars will tip distally and extrude
d. molars will rotate distobucally
c. molars will tip distally and extrude
d. A couple
Class II elastics are used by stretching elastic between which of the two following points?
a. posterior to the anterior within the maxillary arch
b. posterior of the maxillary arch to the anterior within the mandibular arch
c. posterior of the maxillary arch to the anterior of the mandibular arch
d. posterior of the mandibular arch to the anterior of the maxillary arch
d. posterior of the mandibular arch to the anterior of the maxillary arch
What is a second-order bend?
a. A bend to position a tooth buccolingually
b. A bend to provide angulation of a tooth in mesiodistal direction (tip)
c. A bend to provide correct angulation of a tooth in labiolingual direction (torque)
d. A bend to rotate a tooth
a. A bend to position a tooth buccolingually
b. Move mesially and extrude