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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 “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 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?

This man was a friend & classmate of George Whitefield at Oxford.  He traveled to Savannah, Georgia & established the first Methodist society in America

These rights are universal. In other words, everyone has them no matter where they live. 

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?

CASE #2: You are seeing a patient who is has recently finished chemotherapy and radiation treatment for cancer. They have not had a dental visit for two years and in completing your assessments, you are seeing several areas of decay. You take bitewing radiographs and two anterior periapical radiographs and determine that they have areas on the posterior proximal surfaces, at the margins of two crowns and fillings on #3 and #31, and on the proximal surfaces of #10 and #11. Use this information to answer the following questions: QUESTION: What technique with light can be used to determine anterior proximal decay before using an explorer or radiographs?

You are preparing to complete scaling and root planing on the patient’s right side.  There are pockets on nearly every tooth, 4-5mm in the anterior and 4-7mm in the posteriors and nearly every tooth has 2-3mm of recession There is generalized moderate to heavy calculus both supra and subgingival, included radiographic, but the gingival tissue is generally tight and resilient. You need to determine what instruments you are using, what power setting and inserts will be necessary with your ultrasonic and how to determine if your hand instruments are well suited for treating a difficult periodontally involved patient. QUESTION: Based on the information that you have about this patient, what calculus classification at OSU would be given to this patient and where is this classification listed?

You are walking through the streets of London and you hear the townsfolk whispering amongst themselves. They are discussing the idea of “consent of the governed” this John Locke guy has been writing about. They better hope the king doesn’t hear them! You are most likely living in the midst of which movement?

Grades are available in Canvas. True or False