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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: Which best describes the lesion that is detected on the lower lip?

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: When planning to complete a patient today, by what time do you have to check out scaling?

BCH4024 F2024 OC E4 Q2: If a bacterial genome is comprised of 31% C, which of the following statements is FALSE based on Chargaff’s Rules?

Your new patient is a 38-year-old woman whose health history shows that she is asthmatic, HIV positive, smokes hookah socially (between 1 and 3 days a week), has high blood pressure, and reports that all of her conditions are controlled with medications. She lists 5 medications that she takes that you look up to match with her conditions. Her last dental visit was approximately two years ago to have a tooth removed on an emergency basis, and she says she remembers them taking X-rays at that appointment. Her vitals today are BP 129/70, Pulse 54, Respiration 20. Use this information to answer the following questions. QUESTION: What modification may be needed if the patient is having difficulty controlling her asthma this week?

Suppose you capture and mark 10 turtles at a pond. After releasing the turtles, you return a few days later and catch 20 turtles. Of the 20 turtles, 5 are already marked. How many turtles are in the total population?

At constant temperature a 139 mL sample of gas has a pressure of 1.10 atm. What is the volume if the pressure is increased to 3.19 atm? 

What is the coefficient of carbon dioxide gas when the following equation is balanced correctly to the lowest whole number ratio? 

What specific category describes an organism that obtains energy from the sun?

Your 56 year old female patient presents for her 6 month recall appointment. Her medical history indicates a history of anxiety, depression and hypothyroidism. Her vitals today are blood pressure of 154/92, heart rate of 72, and 20 respirations and she expresses a lot of anxiety about the possibility of contracting illnesses when being in a patient care environment.  When conducting the head and neck exam, you note generalized lentigines, and severe acne. When inspecting her dentition, you note generalized restorations in the posterior, and notice facial notching on the anteriors from clenching and grinding. QUESTION: Collecting information with clinical exam and head and neck exam is part of what component of the Dental Hygiene Process of Care?

BCH4024 F2024 OC E4 Q20: The ______________ of a CpG island by ______________ near a eukaryotic promoter is typically associated with inactivation of transcription initiation.