DSE Questions and Answers with
Complete Solutions
True ✔✔T/F: Nifedipine causes gingival hyperplasia.
Leave it alone ✔✔Large space between 11 and 12. What do you do?
a. Mini implant
b. Do a bridge
c. Leave it alone
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DSE Questions and Answers with
Complete Solutions
True ✔✔T/F: Nifedipine causes gingival hyperplasia.
Leave it alone ✔✔Large space between 11 and 12. What do you do?
a. Mini implant
b. Do a bridge
c. Leave it alone
Papilloma on a tongue ✔✔What is this and where?
Excise with salivary gland remnants (surgical removal) ✔✔How do you treat this? (Mucocele)
Debonding ✔✔What is the problem with resin bonded bridges?
1 week ✔✔Hepatitis A/ Jaundice is fine to treat after how much time?
Antihistamines (Benadryl) ✔✔Allergic reaction found on the lip to barbiturate. What do you
give?
Hypoplasia ✔✔Patient didn't like the look of their canine and premolar, and what is it?
Acidic beverages ✔✔Facial erosion on teeth can be due to
Dentinogenesis imperfecta ✔✔[Picture of blue sclera] What other dental findings should you
see?
4. Fatigue ✔✔Hyperthyroid symptoms are all except:
1. Exopthalmos
2. Tachycardia
3. Tremors of extremities
4. Fatigue
(Look up other examples too)
Amelogenesis imperfecta Xray ✔✔What pathology is pictured in the xray?
1.5mm ✔✔Minimum axial reduction for a crown is
2mm ✔✔Replacing #9 crown. Which measurement is correct? (weird question with weird
wording)
2mm ✔✔What is the maximum amount of unsupported porcelain allowed?
True ✔✔T/F: Cyclosporine causes gingival hyperplasia
Debridement ✔✔Most important treatment for ANUG is
Gingivectomy ✔✔What is the treatment for gingival hyperplasia?
Irrigate, apply pressure, reassess ✔✔Patient presents with a liver clot. What is the treatment?
Undercontour ✔✔Would you rather overcontour or under contour the temporary crown to
preserve gingival health
b. Impingement on gums/gum health ✔✔Picture of a patient with all crowns on upper and lower.
What is wrong?
a. incorrect overjet/overbite
b. impingement on gums/gum health
c. improper contour of crown
Overextension of lingual flange ✔✔Patient has pain on swallowing when wearing their denture,
why?
Implant ✔✔Patient presents with space in between 3rd molar with class 2 mobility and premolar.
What do you do to fix this?
Extract #1 and either implant for #3 or #2 and #3. ✔✔Patient missing #2 and #3. #1 has class 3
mobility and furcation involvement. What would be the optimal treatment plan?
Something with lower shade saturation and less gray ✔✔If you cannot pick a color for a crown
what do you chose?
Maxillary posterior ✔✔Worst place for implant is
Either mandibular posterior or anterior ✔✔Best place for implant is
Either mandibular posterior or anterior ✔✔Best long term prognosis for an implant?
Zinc phosphate ✔✔Worst cement for deep restoration?
Deep amalgam filling ✔✔BW xray of a tooth with an amalgam and patient complained of pain
when provoked by hot or cold. Why?
1 week ✔✔Leave perio pack in for how long?
Excision.
Picture of an epulis fissuratum. ✔✔How do you treat this before making a new denture?
a. Apply tissue conditioner
b. leave lesion alone
c. excision
d. prescribe antibiotics
Access for instrumentation ✔✔Reason for perio flap?
Remove it ✔✔Maxillary tori in denture patient. What do you do before making a new denture?
Rigidity ✔✔What does a major connector of a denture need?
Weekly ✔✔According to OSHA you need to check the autoclave with what frequency?
Patient has no Ab's present ✔✔HIV ELISA test was negative for a person who had a needle
stick. What does that mean?
Align the teeth for future restorative procedures
(Not close upper and lower diastema) ✔✔Ortho case- what was the most important thing they
did in maxillary arch?
Acetaminophen ✔✔What pain reliever do you give to a patient who has kidney disease?
Space for guideplane ✔✔Picture of surveyor. Asked what we were looking at?
Pulmonary Embolism ✔✔What is a major complication of Phlebitis?
Reduction in edema ✔✔Patient complaining of space in between teeth after SRP. Why?
Formation of long junctional epithelium ✔✔1-2 mm of reduction in probing depth after
performing SRP. What is the cause?
Right arm ✔✔If a patient has a shunt on the left arm where do you take BP?
Edema ✔✔Picture of #10 and #11 lingual surface, what is wrong with the gingiva?
No occlusion or mesial drifting premolars ✔✔Space in between #29 and #30 in a very old
patient with no #31 and #32 and barely occluding with #3. Why is this happening?
Relieve until it seats ✔✔Surgical stent fits the gums but immediate denture doesn't fit. What do
you do?
Primary herpetic stomatitis ✔✔Picture of the bottom of the tongue with multiple white lesions.
Stated that the patient had complaint of sore gums and tongue, fever of 101 degrees. What is
most likely diagnosis?
Palliative ✔✔Treatment of Primary herpetic stomatitis
b. HIV (Kaposi Sarcoma) ✔✔Patient with purple lesions on palate and said they had similar
lesions on body too. What is most probable cause?
a. Sturge weber
b. HIV (Kaposi Sarcoma)
c. erythema multiforme
Sjogren's Disease (xerostomia) ✔✔What disease will effect wearing complete dentures the
most?
Major aphthous ulcer ✔✔Lesion in the mouth that heals with a scar?
Wharton's Duct (Submandibular Duct) ✔✔Picture with an arrow pointing to a soft tissue mass
on FOM. This is the opening of
Corticosteroids (Would have picked "Nothing" but "Nothing" was not an option) ✔✔Lichen
planus is present on the tongue that was asymptomatic, asked what is the treatment?
Lichen planus (but it also looked like leukoedema, cheek biting, etc. and all were answer
choices) ✔✔Picture of white things on buccal mucosa, and asked what it was.
???? Supernumerary tooth (maybe odontoma) periapical cemental dysplasia ✔✔Panoramic xray
with radiopacity underneath the mandibular incisors, asked what was it?
Anaerobes ✔✔Gingival edema is caused by
Microleakage ✔✔Post crown cementation sensitivity is due to
Posterior occlusion ✔✔Before you line a complete denture you must first establish:
Semiprecision attachment? ✔✔Picture of patient's maxilla with a FPD and RPD attached to it.
Asked how they are attached?
Low dexterity ✔✔Precision attachments are not good with patient with
Duration and dosage ✔✔Patient on steroids. What do you need to know before dental treatment?
Patient's weight ✔✔What is the most important thing for calculating medication dosage for
child?
If they are on anticoagulants ✔✔Patient just had a stroke. What do you need to worry about?
Esthetics ✔✔Contraindication for apically positioned flap is
Adaptation of the matrix band ✔✔Purpose of a wedge during a restoration is
Vasoconstrictor (Epinephrine) ✔✔Contraindication for a patient with hyperthyroidism is
Ectodermal dysplasia ✔✔No hair and missing teeth?
Iron deficiency anemia ✔✔Hereditary telangiectasia is associated with what?
pernicious anemia.
Read about -- 2 questions ✔✔Decrease in RBC when body can't absorb enough vitamin B12
Hemolytic, B12, folate deficiency
Leukemia
(Pt also had sore lymph nodes, painful gums)
normal WBC 4000-11000 ✔✔Gave normal ranges of patient's numbers for RBC, WBC, and
platelets. What is wrong with this person?
> high WBC count
Penicillin ✔✔What antibiotic can cause arm rash?
Fungal test (test for candida) ✔✔Patient was on penicillin for 2 weeks. His tongue is sore. What
do you do?
Malnutrition ✔✔Picture of a red painful tongue in an uncontrolled diabetic. What is it due to
The red and white portions of the mixed lesion ✔✔If there is a red and white mixed lesion, what
do you biopsy?
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