CASE #3: You are treating your first periodontally involved…

CASE #3: You are treating your first periodontally involved patient who has generalized recession and 4-6mm probe depths. You are completing a periodontal maintenance appointment and are navigating all of the root surfaces and subgingival calculus that the patient presents with. You are using the explorer to help you determine how your scaling is going and are treatment this patient by scaling the teeth in one quadrant at a time since this patient is more involved. Use this information to answer the following questions: QUESTION: All of the following are reasons why we would treatment plan a periodontal maintenance code/fee instead of a prophylaxis code/fee for this patient, EXCEPT?

On your new patient you are using the light, explorers and r…

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 term for the margin that you are feeling on #18?

The year is 1754. You live in New England. As you are walkin…

The year is 1754. You live in New England. As you are walking through town, a young boy hands you a flyer and says, “We must all join together or we shall die, sir!” You look at the flyer featuring a snake that has been chopped up into several smaller pieces. “This smells like taxes to me. No thanks!” you say as you throw the flyer away. What was the flyer promoting?

CASE #4: Your new patient presents with a chief complaint of…

CASE #4: Your new patient presents with a chief complaint of “I want to get established as a patient and I think I may have some gum issues going on”. During the health history and dental history, the patient reports high blood pressure and diabetes that he takes medications for and that he is a current daily cigarette and e-cigarette/vaping user.  He used to have regular dental hygiene appointments, but has not been in a dental office since the COVID pandemic started in 2020. During the head and neck exam you identify that they have a white and yellow lesion on their side of their tongue, 3 teeth that appear to have decay and gingiva that is swollen, red, and blunted. When you ask about the tongue, the patient says that it has been there for about a month and has not healed. During the periodontal and clinical examination you detect 4-6mm probe depths on all of the posterior teeth, furcation involvement on several molars and generalized bleeding. Use this information to answer the following questions: QUESTION: Which of the following periodontal therapies would be a recommendation on the treatment plan to treat this patient?

On your new patient you are using the light, explorers and r…

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 in.  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: When you take this radiograph, what are you seeing to chart on his odontogram for tooth #3?

Kylo is taking a social psychology course and his teacher as…

Kylo is taking a social psychology course and his teacher asks students to take a computerized test that asks them to sort pictures into different categories, such as “good” and “bad.” The goal of this test is to help identify automatic preferences of which a person may not be consciously aware. What is this test called?