✨✨✨✨Chapter 10 Wilkins preclinical

1. A) Documentation in the patient's record is considered legal evidence in any legal action. B) All information collected during the initial examination and during continuing patient appointments are official parts of the permanent record.

a) Statement A is true and statement B is false.

b) Statement A is false and statement B is true.

c) Both statements are true.

d) Both statements are false.

C

2. Which of the following is not true for patient record entries?

a) They are recorded promptly during or following treatment.

b) They are recorded using clear, concise, subjective statements.

c) They are dated.

d) They are always signed by the dentist.

D

3. Which of the following is true for dental patient records?

a) Handwritten records are recorded in shorthand abbreviations in red and blue pencil.

b) Mistakes are erased and initialed.

c) Paper records handwritten have historically been how dental records are maintained.

d) Late entries are written in the margins at the beginning of the record.

C

4. Which of the following is not true of HIPAA?

a) It provides federal privacy standards protecting patient records.

b) It is the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act.

c) One of the key rules concerns patient oral health education.

d) The law went into effect in April 2003. e) The law was in response to the emerging electronic information environment.

C

5. Which of the following pertains to the security of patient health information?

a) The right to receive a copy of personal health records

b) The right to decide whether health information can be shared for marketing purposes

c) The responsibility of healthcare employers to educate employees about confidentiality of patient information

d) The use of encryption technology to protect patient information if it is intercepted

D

6. Which of the following would not be charted in the patient's periodontal record?

a) The location of lymph nodes

b) Missing teeth

c) The location of bridges, pontics, and implants

d) Probing depths

A

7. Which of the following should be included in the dental hygiene progress notes?

a) The clinician's personal opinion b) Speculation

c) Documentation of treatment rendered d) Derogatory statements

e) Information about financial matters

C

8. In which section of a SOAP chart would a hygienist note bleeding in the patient's gingiva?

a) Subjective

b) Objective

c) Assessment/Analysis

d) Procedures

B

9. Which tooth numbering system was adopted by the American Dental Association?

a) Universal system

b) Palmer system

c) Quadrant system

d) FDI system

e) The two-digit system

A

10. Which tooth numbering system uses quadrants represented by horizontal and vertical lines?

a) Universal

b) FDI

c) Palmer

d) International

C

11. Using the Universal tooth numbering system, what is the tooth number for the permanent maxillary left second premolar?

a) #13

b) #12

c) #14

d) #20

e) #21

A

12. Using the Universal tooth numbering system, what is the tooth number for the primary maxillary right first molar?

a) #A

b) #B

c) #I

d) #S

e) #3

B

13. Convert tooth #18 from the Universal system to the FDI system.

a) 3 7

b) 27

c) 47

d) 3 8

e) 36

A

14. In the International tooth numbering system, how is the primary maxillary left quadrant designated?

a) 2

b) 8

c) 5

d) 6

e) 7

D

15. Which of the following is not an acceptable dental tooth chart form?

a) Anatomic

b) Geometric

c) Organic

d) All of these are correct.

C

16. Dental caries is charted in:

a) blue.

b) circle with red.

c) red.

d) black line.

C

17. Which of the following is not used as an analysis for determination of the severity of periodontal disease?

a) Gingival changes

b) Periodontal probing recordings

c) Sites of bleeding on probing

d) Clinical detachment level

e) Tooth mobility and fremitus

f) Radiographic findings

D

18. A list of basic items includes all of the following, except:

a) missing teeth.

b) existing restorations.

c) fixed and removable prostheses.

d) tooth color.

e) dental sealants.

f) overhangs, open contacts, open margins, and other irregularities.

D