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Case Study #3: Your first patient in clinic is a healthy 24 year old with probe depths 1-3mm and tight, resilient tissue. They report that they do not floss and have not had a dental visit in 6 years. They have generalized calculus interproximal and you are using the sickle scalers to access the calculus.  You notice that you don’t have a sharpening card in your cassette, so you begin scaling without sharpening. While you are scaling, you place the instrument at the proper location on each tooth and use light, sweeping, supragingival strokes using your fingers. When your clinic instructor checks your scaling progress, they indicate that you have missed several areas of calculus in the middle of the proximals and have burnished other areas of calculus. In summary, you have not made much progress with your scaling. Use this information to answer the following questions. QUESTION: When should sharpening be completed?

Constantine was upset that all Christians did not believe the same thing so he created:

The author who was influenced by neoplatoism and was more concerned with the moral character of his historical subjects was:

Which of the following Jewish groups were peaceful and withdrew from society,

Intellectual life was alive and well in the middle ages but primarily where?

What were the two main weaknesses of the growing Roman empire?

Which word best fits the following sentence?:  The governor’s order will go into (affect/effect) at midnight Tuesday, but most residents do not expect the new law to (affect/effect) them nor their families. 

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?