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Janette’s dentist is drilling her tooth to fill a cavity. After feeling pain and discomfort from the drill hitting her tooth, she immediately asks the dentist to stop drilling for a few minutes. This is an example of an:

CASE STUDY #4: Your patient reports being HIV positive with a CD4 count of 420, a case of COVID about a month ago with an emergency room visit for difficulty breathing and a two day hospitalization.  They report that they are no longer having breathing issues. They have high blood pressure and is current vitals are 140/90, pulse 82 and respirations of 16. They haven’t had their teeth cleaned in about a year and these photos represent some of your clinical findings–deep probe depths and moderate to heavy calculus supragingival and subgingival. Use this information to answer the following questions. QUESTION: Which standard ultrasonic insert could you begin with that cannot be used subgingival?

CASE STUDY #1: Your patient presents for a periodontal maintenance appointment after being gone for 10 months due to the pandemic.  She is usually on a 4 month recall, so this is an amount of time that would usually have included two appointments.   She reports hypertension and diabetes, both of which she controls with medications, and her vitals today are BP 130/86, pulse 88, respirations 14. In doing your periodontal assessments and radiographs, you determine that she has 4mm probe depths in the anterior teeth, several 5-6mm probe depths in the posterior teeth with isolated furcation involvement and generalized moderate to heavy calculus.  She has several amalgam restorations and crowns and you notice seveal areas of demineralization and recurrent decay, but she is not having any pain or sensitivity.  Use this information to answer the following questions. QUESTION: Once the heavier calculus is gone, all of the following instruments could be used to assess the pockets on the anterior teeth, EXCEPT:

What were the main political groups during the time of Jesus? (you need to list the four groups and tell what they believed)

Most monasteries of the time ran their communes by:

CASE STUDY #5: You are doing your Capstone internship in your senior year with the Central Sterilization. As part of your job, you are working in dispensary distributing instruments and on the ground floor evaluating instruments for replacement and assisting with sterilization of instruments from the appointments throughout the College of Dentistry. Use this information to answer the following questions. QUESTION: How much wear would require a magnetostrictive ultrasonic to be replaced?

One of the most traveled and influential person who spread the Christian faith but originally persecuted Christians was:

Who widely spread the belief that Jesus was the long promised messiah?

Jin works at a food company that packages baked goods and distributes them to grocery stores. She is on a team with 4 other workers in charge of making decisions about what materials to use to package the chocolate chip cookies. They have to put together a presentation weighing the benefits and drawbacks of using recyclable materials for the packaging. Describe a scenario in which the group engages in groupthink. What is one factor that would make groupthink more likely? What are 2 symptoms of groupthink that could occur in this situation?

CASE STUDY #3: Your patient is an international graduate student who is new to the United States and has never had an appointment with a dental hygienist before. They have never experienced the ultrasonic power scaler and are curious about how it works and what it is used for.  They are studying physics and are interested in the technology. Based on the amount of moderate to heavy calculus you choose to start with a standard tip, then follow up with the ultraslim thinsert. The patient asks questions about tip choice, why water is used, is this instrument more effective than hand instruments, among others. Use this information to answer questions for this patient. QUESTION: At what angulation do you use this instrument against the tooth?