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You are seeing a new patient.  Through the dental history you determine that they have a broken tooth, would like to get established as a patient and have a 7/10 fear of the dentist.  When completing their medical history they report hypertension, type II diabetes and anxiety, all of which they take medications for.  They report their latest diabetes numbers from 6 months ago as 9.2 and 180.  They indicate that they are overdue for their medical visit and blood test.  The vital signs you get are BP: 186/102, Pulse: 102 and Respiration: 18.  QUESTION: Which of the following describes the vital signs that you have detected?

Case #4: You are seeing a new patient and are finishing their assessments by taking intraoral camera photos. Through your assessments, you have determined that the patient does not have recession, gingival inflammation, or periodontal pockets and has a .2 level of calculus. You are primarily going to be using the sickles for scaling their teeth today. Use this information to answer the following questions.  QUESTION: Your patient is curious about the instrument you are using. Which is not a characteristics of Sickle Scalers that you could discuss with them?

CASE STUDY #1: You have completed your assessments on your patient and are getting ready to scale.  You don’t see a test stick in your cassette, so you are going to use the Visual Test using light to determine if your instruments are sharp or dull.  Once you have determined this, you sharpen several of your instruments using the technique that we practiced in class.  Once your instruments are sharpened, you decide to use the sickle scalers as your first hand instruments on your patient since they are periodontally healthy and do not have periodontal pockets to scale.  Use this information to answer the following questions.  QUESTION: At what degree of angulation is the face to the shank on posterior sickle scalers and how many cutting edges are there per end sickle end?

CASE STUDY #3:  You are a new dental hygiene student who is concerned with maintaining proper ergonomics and grasp to avoid to avoid repetitive stress injuries that can result in a musculoskeletal disorder.  You have been practicing your grasp and positioning, as well as your patient positioning to achieve neutral positioning.  Use this information to answer the next 3 questions. QUESTIONS:  How should your patient and light be positioned to best view the maxillary arch?

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You have completed all of the assessments and radiographs at an NPE (new patient exam) appointment on a 30 year old patient who has never has a dental hygiene procedure before. Today, you plan to check in the assessments with your instructor, create a treatment plan, complete a prophylaxis and get a dental examination.  He speaks English as a second language and has not requested an interpreter, but you are concerned that there may be a language barrier when discussing treatment and procedures, especially since this is the first dental office he has ever been to. You are preparing your instruments to treat this patient who has no signs of periodontal disease, but has a lot of supragingival and subgingival calculus.   QUESTION: Which would be ineffective in preparing to treat this patient?  

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CASE STUDY #1: Your patient is a 72 year old man who has had both knees replaced and has a history of heart conditions including hypertension, a heart attack and a triple bypass in 2018.  He is not allergic to any medications and is taking the hypertensive medication Losartan and is on the anti-coagulant medication Warfarin.  His physician wants him to take a pre-medication before dental visits. His vitals with you today are BP: 130/86, pulse 80 and respirations 12.  He says that he has been having some chest pains lately and has scheduled an appointment to see his physician.  During your appointment, he starts to have some pain in the chest.  Using this scenario to answer the next 4 questions. QUESTION: What is the regimen that he would need for the antibiotic pre-medication?

Each student is responsible to turn in all 12 labs.