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Suppose you capture and mark 75 turtles at a pond. After releasing the turtles, you return a few days later and catch 10 turtles. Of the 10 turtles, 5 are already marked. How many turtles are in the total population?

Prejudice; thinking negatively of others without any or significant justification; generally a combination of stereotyped beliefs and negative attitudes is the definition of:

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 insert would be recommended to start with if the patient has heavy stain and ledges of surpragingival calculus?

As a patient begins to accept the inevitability of death, he or she may ask to discuss important circumstances that will affect the last moments of life. These concerns may include the administration of CPR techniques, organ donation, internment plans, pain control, and sedation. To formalize these wishes, patients will complete a(n)

Suppose you capture and mark 20 turtles at a pond. After releasing the turtles, you return a few days later and catch 20 turtles. Of the 20 turtles, 2 are already marked. How many turtles are in the total population?

In the process of preparing a German patient for an interventional procedure, you discover the patient speaks no English. She has no family members with her and was escorted down by hospital transport. A necessary part of the examination is for the patient to complete an informed consent document. The best effective strategy you could use to accomplish this would be:

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 indicates that the crowns on the patient’s right maxillary sextant are not metallic?

What type of epithelial tissue is this? epithelium  

Your patient had a kidney transplant 6 months ago and is taking cyclosporin and another immunosuppressive medication to prevent rejection of the new kidney. This is their first appointment since the transplant and they are presenting for a prophy and exam.  They indicate that they have been experiencing some changes in their mouth and want to you to evaluate them.  One is a cluster of vesicles on their lip that they say has been there for 4 days and is starting to heal and another is an enlargement of their gingival tissue, both related to their medication use. The patient has been paying closer attention to their tissues since they started to change and asks the dark brownish patches inside their lip and on the anterior gingiva. Use this information to answer the following questions. QUESTION:  Are these patches a variation of normal, abnormal or pathology?