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Your 72 year old, diabetic patient, with no known allergies, presents for her appointment and it has been a little over a year since you have seen her last. While going through her medical history you find out she had a joint replacement 9 months ago. You find out she didn’t take a pre-medication and and send her home after consulting with her surgeon. Before dismissing her, you complete the head exam and update the risk assessments. You notice a 5×5 mm red, raised lesion on her lower lip that she says she got from biting really hard a few days ago. She returns the next day, she took her pre-med and now you can begin the rest of your assessments. Vitals: BP-120/78, pulse 60, respirations 70.  During assessments she has generalized 5-6 mm probing depths in her posterior teeth and you determine she has a calculus level of .3. She will need full mouth SRP. You will begin the SRP on the maxillary right quadrant at the next appointment and ask her to check her glucose at the beginning of the next appointment.  QUESTION: Where should the middle finger be placed to increase tactile sensitivity during exploring?

Objectives To Compose an essay with an identifiable introduction, supporting body points, an a conclusion, all guided by a sound argument expressed within a focused thesis statement. To apply critical reading skills to a literary text to develop and support an argument  Assignments By now you should have chosen a poem from the previous step. You will write your current essay about that same poem. You cannot change your poem.  Requirements: minimum  five paragraphs long. must contain an intro, body and closing. should identify the poem’s title, genre, and poet in the introduction–NO announcements like this:  “In this essay I am going to explicate the poem ‘Rat’ by Stuart Little.” Review the essay samples and overview to see how this should be done. should contain a one-sentence thesis statement at the end of the intro–what is the poem’s overall meaning or message?  Again, review the essay models in the overview for examples. Cite your poem both inside your essay whenever you quote or paraphrase key detail and at the end of essay he best way you can in MLA 9th ed format. Review MLA citation formatting for poetryLinks to an external site. Note: we will not follow MLA guidelines for all situations. Please cite the poem line numbers even if your poem should be cited with the poet’s last name only. Do not search for or copy explanations from the internet. Do look up unknown words and proper nouns.   Do not neglect those skills you learned in ENG 101. Give your essay a proper header and title. Proofread. Provide MLA in-text citations.

Your new patient has a lot of restorations to chart and is also missing several teeth, so you use your visual clinical evaluation as well as the radiographs to determine all of the appropriate findings to chart. Use the following photographs and radiographs to help you answer the questions for this patient. QUESTION: What classification of composite is on the mesial of #9?

You are reviewing your clinic book to prepare for spring semester clinic.  Use the information that you have learned through these resources and your time in clinic to answer the following questions. QUESTION: How do you get a periodontist to come to do a periodontal consult?

You have a 57-year-old female patient report for her Periodontal Maintenance appointment. She was running a few minutes behind schedule and missed her bus to get to your appointment, so she had to walk to the clinic. When you take her blood pressure, it reads 139/99. Her pulse is 95 BPM, and her respiratory rate is 22. After reviewing the patient’s medical history, she reports no new ER visits or hospital stays, but she is still having issues with her stent that was placed in 2019 from a previous heart attack, and is still taking the depressant drug, Valium for her generalized anxiety. During the dental history portion, you find out this patient has a 7/10 fear of the dentist due to past trauma. During assessments, you determine this patient is at high risk for caries. This patient has a lot of radiographic calculus subgingivally, especially on the distals of her 2nd molars. Use this information to answer the following questions. QUESTION: Does the patient require a pre-medication for this appointment?

Your patient presents for a prophy today after being away from the dental office for over five years. After updating the medical history, you add that the patient has been diagnosed with type II diabetes mellitus and went to the hospital four months ago for a broken wrist after falling, and has developed an allergy to penicillin. They had an artificial heart valve placed in 2020, and they report taking taking Warfarin, Metformin and a multivitamin daily. Upon completing the risk assessments and periodontal charting, you note that they are at high risk for caries and periodontal disease and have generalized 3-6mm and localized 7 and 8mm probe depths with generalized recession. Based off of this information, answer the following questions. QUESTION: What antibiotic pre-medication regimen does this patient require?  

For the following  reaction how much heat is released in kilojoules (kJ) if 75.00 g of methane (CH4) is added to excess oxygen?    

You are working with a dental faculty to complete an initial appointment on a new patient. They ask you to do a periodontal evaluation and record a PSR score. After completing this evaluation you enter these scores into the PSR chart and discuss your findings with your faculty member. Use this information to answer the following questions. 3 2 4 2 2 2 QUESTION: Which is the main instrument that you are using to conduct the PSR periodontal evaluation?

A gas mixture in a container has 0.311 mol H2  and 0.572 mol He. The total pressure in the container is 2.89 atm. What is the partial pressure of hydrogen gas?

You have a 57-year-old female patient report for her Periodontal Maintenance appointment. She was running a few minutes behind schedule and missed her bus to get to your appointment, so she had to walk to the clinic. When you take her blood pressure, it reads 139/99. Her pulse is 95 BPM, and her respiratory rate is 22. After reviewing the patient’s medical history, she reports no new ER visits or hospital stays, but she is still having issues with her stent that was placed in 2019 from a previous heart attack, and is still taking the depressant drug, Valium for her generalized anxiety. During the dental history portion, you find out this patient has a 7/10 fear of the dentist due to past trauma. During assessments, you determine this patient is at high risk for caries. This patient has a lot of radiographic calculus subgingivally, especially on the distals of her 2nd molars. Use this information to answer the following questions. QUESTION: The patient is due for an exam today. If the last radiographs were taken in December of 2022, would new radiographs be recommended and why?