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Elderly patients, in particular, should be advised to sit upright in a chair for a few minutes after a long appointment to avoid postural hypotension.

Once it is determined that the patient cannot breathe, speak, or cough, you should begin administering which of the following?

If a patient becomes unconscious from fainting, aspirin should be placed under the patient’s tongue.

When dental ________ is not regularly removed from the surfaces of a tooth, the tooth becomes more susceptible to caries.

Which types of bacteria are primarily responsible for dental caries?

Hypoglycemia is when the patient has too little sugar or glucose.

The earliest stage of dental caries is

Which of the following is not an acceptable method of controlling moisture during sealant placement?

Bobby, Tony DeLuca’s 7-year-old son, has just had an examination with the dentist. The dentist noted some calculus that had accumulated on the lingual surfaces of Bobby’s mandibular incisors and removed it with a sickle scaler. The dentist completes his work and assigns the coronal polish to you. ________ prophy paste would be used where Bobby has dark stain from drinking too much grape juice. This type of stain is called extrinsic stain.

A general term that literally means “white patch” is _____.