CASE #2: Your patient recently finished chemotherapy and rad…
CASE #2: Your patient 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 see decay at the buccal margins of crowns on #2 and #3, around the fillings on #4 and #28, and on the proximal surfaces of #10 and #11. Use this information to answer the following questions: QUESTION: What technique with the light and mirror could you do to determine a need for anterior periapical radiographs?
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A statistics student was asked to construct a box-and-whisker plot for the following dataset (n=23). 3 5 6 8 9 12 13 16 19 25 29 31 33 38 43 49 53 54 58 68 73 80 87 What is the maximum potential LENGTH that the whiskers could extend?
Read DetailsCASE #2: Your patient recently finished chemotherapy and rad…
CASE #2: Your patient 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 see decay at the buccal margins of crowns on #2 and #3, around the fillings on #4 and #28, and on the proximal surfaces of #10 and #11. Use this information to answer the following questions: QUESTION: Which classification would the decay on #10 and #11 be classified as?
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CASE #1: You are seeing a 34 year old patient who recently moved to the United States and has never had a dental hygiene visit before. As you are completing your assessments, you determine that the patient is periodontally involved with probe depths over 3-6mm with calculus on 50% of the surfaces of their teeth. You take a full series of radiographs and determine that they have radiographic ledges and spicules of calculus and slight bone loss. Use this information to answer the following questions: QUESTION: What calculus classification would be given for this patient?
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