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Obtaining DMFTs on the students before the “Smile Day” is an example of

Water testing in the district has been completed.  Due to a minimal amount of fluoride in the water, approval will be sought from the school board for a fluoride intervention for the students.  Which intervention is most likely to gain approval from the board based on ease of implementation, low cost and effectiveness?

If a researcher is collecting information about a group and one category of information is ‘Gender:  Male/Female,’ the resulting data falls into which scale of measurement?

Question 14-20 A state board of health has just hired a dental hygienist to assess the dental status of all third graders in a nonfluoridated school district.Dental hygiene students are available to help with screenings and gain experience with gathering data through various indices.   14. In a private practice setting, the dental status of a client is determined by a comprehensive examination.In the public health setting, the comprehensive examination would MOST closely parallel

Question 25 and 26 A researcher conducts a study in which 200 persons with oral cancer and 200 without oral cancer are identified and provide their informed consent to participate.  Following this step, participants complete surveys that question them about past exposure to a group of variables suspected of being responsible for the disease (risk factors). The participants also give consent to have their past medical records reviewed in order for the researchers to gather more information.                            25. What type of study is described?

The statement “Following the oral health education program, students will be able to demonstrate proper brushing technique using a toothbrush and plastic tooth model with 80% accuracy” is best described as___________________________.

The hygiene association agrees to sponsor a “Smile Day” event to provide dental treatment and dental education to the students at the high school. The statement, “following participation in the treatment portion of this program, students will have 100% of their dental caries restored,” is an example of what type of statement?

In the evaluation phase of the classroom education component of your program, you plan to measure the children’s performance skills in the area of oral hygiene.  Which method would be best to accomplish this?

If the null hypothesis is rejected when it is actually true it is an example of which type of error?

The scores for the power toothbrushing group were as follows:  Mean 85, Median82, Mode 83.  What type of skew is present in this data?