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What did Amy Tan’s father do for a living? 

You are a Republican United States Senator in the year 1919. You and the other Senators just read the proposed peace treaty to end World War 1. You do not like the terms one bit. When it comes your time to address the rest of the Senate, you stand up and say, “Gentlemen, this treaty will not do! Particularly the part about _____________ will be a disaster and get us involved in more European wars in the future. I cannot vote to support this! No sir! Isolationism forever!” While more than one answer may be correct, choose the MOST LIKELY answer. 

You are an African American working at a factory in 1924. You spend your days working on the assembly line. It’s not bad work. You do the same thing over and over, but you get good pay ($5 a day) and work only 8 hours a day. You also get paid the same as your white coworkers.  Who do you most likely work for given the info above?

The year is 1906. You are a resident of Chicago and you are reading a harrowing account of the unsanitary meat packing industry in your city. “I am never eating sausage again!” you exclaim as you throw the book across the room narrowly missing your dog.  Who wrote the book you just read?

This is a lecture/lab Physical Science class.

You and your classmates are participating with a dental screening event at a local health fair for immigrant and refugee families that have recently relocated to central Ohio. As part of this screening, you are using your magnification loupes and headlight, and have access to shepherd hooks explorers, periodontal explorers, probes and mirrors. On any willing participate, you are completing a head and neck oral cancer screening, an abbreviated PSR screening using one tooth in each sextant, and identifying any clinical visible areas that you are suspicious of decay. You chart all of this information and present a summary form and referral to the OSU dental clinic for each of the participants. QUESTION: Which scenario would be an inappropriate time to use an alcohol based hand sanitizer? 

You are seeing a periodontal maintenance patient who had some tissue grafting for recession and the correction of a periodontal defect with some bone grafting done this summer. As you are updating their medications, you are removing the pain medications they were on for the surgery and see that chlorhexidine rinse was also prescribed. You know that chlorhexidine rinse is an antiseptic rinse that is often prescribed after oral surgery and ask them if they are still using it. They say that they used the full bottle, but didn’t get it refilled because they were disappointment with how much staining it caused on their teeth. When you do your oral exam, this is the result that you see. The patient is concerned about whether it is permanent or if you will be able to remove it today. Use this photo and this case to answer the following questions. QUESTION: Which classification of ultrasonic inserts remove surface staining most efficiently?

At what speed should coronal polishing be done?

On your new patient you are using the light, explorers and radiographic images to determine where there are restorations, check the restorations for areas of decay and to determine where there is calculus to remove.  On tooth #30 there is an area where there is a gap between the tooth and the amalgam that you can stick the explorer into.  On tooth #18, there is excessive amalgam material that extends into the proximal embrasure space.  You feel vibrations that indicate that there is calculus on many of proximal surfaces, you estimate about 25% of the surfaces total.  One of the patient’s chief complaints for today is that his bridge fell out and he brought it with him in hopes it could be re-cemented.   QUESTION: What is the terminology to describe the margin that you are feeling on #30?

Your new patient is a mechanical engineer who has been away from the dentist for a few years.  He had been going to an older dentist who retired and hadn’t been up on newer technology in the dental office.  He is very interested in learning about what and how you are doing  the procedures of the appointment and asks a lot of good questions.  Choose the right answer to each of his questions.   QUESTION:  Are you required to use an N95 mask for your appointments?