Professional Documents
Culture Documents
for Dentistry
Douglas Hammond
BDS (Wales) MFGDP (UK)
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The information contained within this book was obtained by the author from reliable
sources. However, while every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy, no
responsibility for loss, damage or injury occasioned to any person acting or refraining
from action as a result of information contained herein can be accepted by the
publishers or author.
Contents
About the Author vii
Introduction ix
1 Oral Medicine 1
2 Oral Surgery 23
3 Dental Materials 45
5 Oral Pathology 95
6 Periodontics 117
7 Pharmacology 145
8 Radiology 167
Index 235
Douglas graduated from Cardiff Dental Hospital and completed various hospital and
practice jobs. He then began working as a part-time lecturer in Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery at the Royal London Hospital in 2002, whilst embarking on a
medicine degree at University College London. He should graduate in June 2007.
From there he hopes to continue into specialist training in Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery.
Introduction
This book aims to cover most of the aspects required in finals for dentistry. It tries
to cover a broad section of subjects, most of which are the “examiner’s favourites”.
There is a mixture of questions with some requiring straightforward recognition and
others requiring the application of knowledge. All of the most basic subjects are
covered and some of the more complex subjects. Hopefully this will be a good
revision aid to those revising for finals.
6.1 Which one of the following bacterial species is not associated with
adult periodontitis?
1 A Fusobacterium nucleatum
1 B Bacteroides forsythus
1 C Porphyromonas gingivalis
1 D Shigella sonnei
1 E Prevotella intermedia
6.2 When looking at the notes of a patient, you see annotation for a
Basic Periodontal Examination (BPE). What does a score of 3 mean
on this particular index?
1 A Gingival bleeding, no overhangs or calculus, pockets > 3.5 mm
1 B Pockets within colour-coded area, 4.5–6.5 mm
1 C Colour-coded area disappears, pockets > 5.5 mm
1 D Pockets within colour-coded area, 3.5–5.5 mm
1 E Colour-coded area disappears, pockets > 5.5 mm
6.1 D
All of the bacteria in the list are responsible for adult periodontitis except S. sonnei,
which is responsible for acute diarrhoea.
6.2 D
The WHO probe is used for carrying out BPE. The index is shown below.
Score Disease
0 No disease
1 Gingival bleeding, no overhangs or calculus, pockets
< 3.5 mm
2 No pockets > 3.5 mm, no supragingival calculus or
subgingival overhangs present
3 Pockets within the colour-coded area, 3.5–5.5 mm
4 Colour-coded area disappears, pockets > 5.5 mm
6.3 E
6.4 E
6.5 D
Grade Description
1 Movement of the crown of a tooth in the horizontal plane is 0.2–1 mm
6.6 B
1 A Briault’s
1 B Community Periodontal Index of Treatment Needs (CPITN)
1 C World Health Organization (WHO)
1 D Williams’
1 E Florida
6.7 C
6.8 D
The probe shown is the Williams’ probe, which has 1 mm increments for accurate
measurement of the pocket depth.
6.9 C
6.10 A
As these are the first teeth to erupt, they seem to be the teeth which are affected
most by juvenile periodontitis.
6.11 B