PCD Papers (Feb21 To July12)

0221E397
Final B.D.S. Examination

Public Health Dentistry
Date: 09/02/2021
[Time: 03 Hours] [Max Marks: 70]
Instructions: (1) Answer to the point.
(2) Figure to the right indicates marks.
(3) Draw diagrams wherever necessary.
(4) Write legibly.
(5) Use separate answer books for each section.
Section I
Q.1 write any two (14)
a) Define Epidemiology. Write in detail about Randomized Controlled Trial.
b) Write in detail about hospital waste management.
c) Classify pit & fissure sealants. Write briefly on Preventive Resin Restoration (PRR).
Q.2 write notes on (any three) (15)
a) Principles of Ethics
b) Cultural practices related to oral health
c) Chronic Fluoride Toxicity
d) School Dental Nurse
Q.3 white in one sentence (any six) (06)
a) Write the formula for computing arithmetic mean.
b) Write the two most important advantages of fluoride varnish.
c) Two examples of Public Financing for payment of Dental Care.
d) List the index age- groups in pathfinder oral health survey.
e) Define Health.
f) Give a minimally invasive alternative to fissure surface preparation by fissurotomy.
g) Name two systemic risk factors of periodontitis.
h) State the importance of Significant Caries Index (SiC index)
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Section II
a) Write in detail about principles of primary health care.
b) Write in detail about role of WHO in international health.
c) Write in detail about tobacco counselling and cessation practice modalities.
Q.5 write short note on (any three) (15)
a) Infection control measures for dental practice during COVID- 19 times.
b) Explain “Known to Unknown” in the context of oral health education.
c) School is an ideal setting for oral health promotion among children. Justify.
d) Iceberg phenomenon of disease.
Q.6 write in one sentence (any six) (06)
a) List two contraindications of Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART)
b) Give two reasons why ‘Dumping’ is considered as an unethical method of solid waste
disposal.
c) Write one implication of the 2019 Amendment of Consumer Protection Act 2019, which
came into force in July,2019.
d) Give an example each for preventive orthodontic procedure and interceptive orthodontic
procedure.
e) What is Schmutzdecke/zoogleal layer?
f) Name the recommended brushing technique for children.
g) Mention two groups in the community with special oral health care needs.
h) Snowball Sampling
0920E272
Date: 09/09/2020
(4) Write legibly.
Section I
a) Define Epidemiology. Classify epidemiology. Describe steps of descriptive epidemiology
in detail.
b) Define defluoridation of water. Describe Nalgonda technique of defluoridation in detail.
c) Describe Primary prevention of Oral Cancer in detail.
a) Barriers of Health Education
b) Delta Dental Plan
c) Classification of Indices
d) Taboos
a) Blanket referral
b) Fluoride Varnishes
c) Incidence & prevalence
d) Double Blind study
e) 2 Functions of DCI
f) Snow ball sampling
g) NRT
h) Disadvantages of Knutson's technique
Section II
a) How will you carry out infection control in Dental clinic?
b) What are the dietary recommendations according to age groups you will give for
prevention & control of dental diseases?
c) Define data. Enumerate sources of data. How will you graphically present data, give
examples.
a) Dental Hygienist
b) Activities carried out in School dental Program
c) Principles of Primary Health Care
d) COPRA
a) When is oral health day as declared by WHO?
b) Soil, Seed & Sower
c) Measures of central tendency
d) Define epidemic & endemic.
e) Define COHORT
f) What is UCR fee?
g) What is the Certainly Lethal Dose (CLD) and Safety Tolerated Dose (STD) of fluoride?
h) Why is dental fluorosis not found in deciduous teeth?
1219E576
Date: 18/12/2019
(4) Write legibly.
Section I
a) Define & classify survey. Write in detail about steps in conducting survey for rural
community.
b) Write in details about purification of water at large scale.
c) Classify fluorides used in dentistry. Discuss the importance of fluoride in prevention of
dental caries.
a) Nuremberg code of Ethics.
b) Difference between Case control and Cohort study.
c) Caries activity versus Caries Susceptibility
d) CPI & LOA
a) Health
b) World health day
c) Sampling
d) COPRA
e) Content
f) PRR
g) Bias
h) Odd ratio
Section II
a) What is Data? Give an account of type methods of collection & presentation of statistical
data.
b) Define Community dentistry. What are its Objectives? Discuss the various tools used in
public health dentistry.
c) Give WHO definition of health education. Enumerate different principles of health
education. Explain different methods for imparting dental health education.
a) Culture & Oral health
b) Planning Cycle
c) RCT
d) Mobile Dental Van
a) Index
b) Tooth brush
c) World No Tobacco Day
d) Dental Auxiliary
e) UCR Fee
f) Measure of Central tendency
g) Test of Significance
h) Prevention
0719E325
Date: 20/07/2019
(4) Write legibly.
Section I

a) Define epidemiology. Classify epidemiological studies and explain RCT.
b) Define index, mention ideal properties of index. Discuss CPI & LOA
c) Classify fluorides in preventive dentistry. Explain topical fluorides and their mechanism
of action.
a) Ayushman Bharat
b) Diabetes and oral health
c) World No Tobacco Day- themes/ focus- 2017 to 2019
d) Fluorosis in Gujarat
a) ASHA worker
b) Census
c) Standard Error (SE)
d) NOHP
e) 21 June
f) WHO headquarters
g) Tattle Tooth Program
h) Jurisprudence
Section II
a) Define evaluation. Describe steps in evaluation with example of dental public health
programme.
b) Define and discuss Bio Medical Waste (BMW) management with amendments.
c) Define diet and nutrition. Explain their role in gingival and periodontal disease.
a) Primordial level of Prevention
b) Attributable risk
c) Screening
d) Vipeholm study
a) Define Epidemiology
b) NIPAH
c) COHORT
d) Loss of Head
e) Table of allowances
f) Two tone solution
g) UNICEF
h) Limitations of DMF index
1218E501
Date: 26/12/2018
(4) Write legibly.
Section I
a) Define epidemiology. Classify epidemiological methods and write in detail about case
control studies.
b) Discuss in detail about pit and fissure sealants
c) Define health education. Discuss the various steps involved in planning for health
education program.
a) Chi square test
b) Chemical plaque control
c) Risk factors & prevention of oral cancer
d) Census vs survey
a) What are types of evaluation?
b) What are Changing concept of health?
c) Enumerate tools of dental public health
d) What is sensitivity of an index?
e) What is a sample?
f) Enumerate measures of central tendency
g) What is shoe Leather survey?
h) What is blanket referral?
Section II
a) Discuss in detail about COPRA
b) Define water fluoridation. Note on mechanism of action of fluorides in caries reduction.
Write in detail with fluoride toxicity and its management.
c) What is oral health care delivery? Describe in detail about the various oral health care
delivery systems in India.
a) Planning cycle
b) Atraumatic Restorative Treatment
c) Third party payments
d) Iceberg phenomenon of disease
a) What is denturist?
b) What is snowball sampling?
c) What is incremental dental care?
d) What is blinding?
e) What is primordial prevention?
f) What is endemic?
g) What is veracity?
h) What is pathfinder survey?
0718E256
Date: 18/07/2018

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Section I
a) Define public health. Describe the characteristics of public health methods. Write briefly
about functions of public health dentist.
b) Enumerate various water borne disease. Describe briefly on rapid sand purification of water
for supply to a big city.
c) Define health education. Describe the role of mass media in health education.
a) Matching
b) National health programme
c) Planning cycle
d) Mechanism of action of fluorides
a) What is blanket referral?
b) What is calibration?
c) What is composting?
d) What is standard deviation?
e) What are space maintainers?
f) What are the barriers to health education?
g) What do you mean by validity of an index?
h) What is an incubation period?
Section II
a) Define public health dentistry. Describe the primary level of prevention as applied to dental
caries.
b) Write in detail about the health care delivery system in India.
c) Define epidemiology and Describe the method of study of analytical epidemiology
a) Ideal requirements of an index
b) Diet counselling
c) Caries activity test
d) Indian dental Council
a) What is primary health care?
b) What is ethics?
c) What is bias?
d) What epidemiological triad?
e) What is pathfinder survey?
f) What is epidemic?
g) What is cluster sampling?
h) What is screening?
1217E041
Date: 20/12/2017
(4) Write legibly.
Section I
a) Define & classify epidemiology. Write in detail cohort study.
b) Define prevention and different levels of prevention. Describe in detail primary prevention
of oral cancer.
c) Explain in detail mechanism of action of fluoride. Describe Knutson's technique of fluoride
application in detail.
a) Chlorination of water
b) Pit and fissure sealants
c) Dental Council of India
d) Dental auxiliaries
a) What is blanket referral?
b) Define incidence and prevalence.
c) 31st may, every year is celebrated as___
d) Write the types of evaluation
e) Enumerate water borne diseases
f) Interpretation of Russell's periodontal index
g) Principles of dental ethics
h) Enumerate methods of waste disposal
Section II
a) Write in detail tools of dental public health
b) Define index. Describe ideal requirements of an index and describe CPTIN in detail.
c) Define plaque control and write about chlorhexidine gluconate in detail.
a) Principle of primary health care
b) Mean Media Mode
c) Tattle tooth programme
d) Third party payments
a) Define potable water
b) Enumerate smokeless tobacco products
c) Write the epidemiological triad
d) Write two regulations of OSHA
e) Names of sampling technique
f) Index age- group for survey by WHO
g) What is caries status and caries experience?
h) Write names of any four caries activity tests
0717E133
Date: 17/07/2017
(4) Write legibly.
Section I
a) Describe in detail the various types of sampling methods used in dentistry.
b) Describe in detail epidemiological methods in experimental epidemiology.
c) Describe in detail epidemiological methods in analytical epidemiology.
a) Null hypothesis
b) Taboos
c) Basic oral health survey
d) School dental health programme
a) What are dental auxiliaries?
b) What is normal curve?
c) What is nursing bottle caries?
d) What is odds ratio?
e) What is defluoridation of drinking water?
f) What is dental caries vaccine?
g) What is vital layer?
h) What is pathfinder survey?
Section II
a) Discuss in detail the epidemiology, etiology and prevention of oral cancer.
b) Classify and discuss fluoride toxicity in detail.
c) Describe the various steps involved in organizing survey.
a) Balanced diet
b) COPRA
c) Voluntary health agencies
d) Vipeholm study
a) What is the public health significance of 31st May and 1st December?
b) What is U.C.R. fees?
c) What is blooming initiative?
d) What do you mean by “smile 2 go”?
e) Write the full form: IAPHD, UNDP, CARE, SHARP
f) What is blinding?
g) What do you mean by “pandemic”?
h) What is “triclosan”?
1216E047
Date: 28/12/2016
(4) Write legibly.
Section I
a) Write the classification of data. Describe the various methods of presenting qualitative
data.
b) Define and classify dental auxiliaries. Discuss in detail the operating dental auxiliaries.
c) Discuss the purification of water on large scale in India.
a) Planning cycle
b) Vipeholm study
c) Taboos in dentistry
d) Mobile dental clinic
a) What is proxy consent?
b) Write the index age groups according to WHO
c) Which is psycho-social concept of health?
d) What is the role of carboxy methyl cellulose in preventive dentistry?
e) What is odd ratio?
f) What are 5A’s and 5R’s?
g) What is the public health significance of glass ionomer cement?
h) Enumerate at least four periodontal indices.
Section II
a) Classify dental payments mechanism and discuss third party payments in detail.
b) What are levels of preventions? Discuss primary level of prevention for dental caries.
c) Classify and discuss fluoride toxicity in detail.
a) Epidemiological triad
b) Space maintainers
c) Hazards of tobacco
d) HFA 2000
a) WHO periodontal probe
b) Indications and contraindications of pit and fissure sealants.
c) What is learning ladder?
d) Write the full form for: ICDS, IAPHD, EFDA & THETA.
e) What do you mean by “chocking off effect”?
f) Color Coding for bio-medical waste
g) What is the public health significance of 4th April and 31st May?
h) What do you mean by Nuremberg code?
0716E086
Date: 20/07/2016
(4) Write legibly.
Section I
a) “Health is multidimensional in nature”. Elaborate in detail about dimensions of health and
add a note on Iceberg phenomenon and its role in oral diseases.
b) Define primary health care. Write in detail the principles of primary health care.
c) Define health education. Describe in detail the principles and methods of practicing health
education for groups.
a) Biomedical waste categories
b) Elements of primary health care
c) Bias in epidemiological studies
d) School dental nurse
a) Prevalence
b) Epidemic
c) Health
d) Primordial prevention
e) Cumulative index
f) Soil, seed and sower
g) Incineration
h) Substantivity
Section II
a) Describe briefly a plan to improve the oral health status of undeserved school children.
b) Describe the mechanism of action of fluoride and write in detail about Topical Fluorides.
c) Define dental ethics. Writing in detail the various ethics principles on which Doctor:
Patient relationship is based on.
a) Defluoridation
b) ART
c) Chemotherapeutic Plaque Control
d) Caries risk management
a) Bulk sweeteners
b) Anti- calculus Agent
c) Interdental oral hygiene aids
d) Plaque
e) Confidentiality
f) UCR fees method
g) Symposium
h) Flip charts
0116E0058
Date: 22/01/2016
(4) Write legibly.
Section I
a) Define prevention. Discuss various levels of prevention of oral cancer.
b) Define health education. Discuss principles of health education in relation to oral health.
c) Define evaluation. Discuss steps in evaluation. Add a note on elements of evaluation.
a) Use of screening
b) Household purification of water
c) Mechanism of action of stannous fluoride
d) Non-cariogenic sugar substitute
a) Truthfulness of veracity
b) Agents
c) Relative risk
d) Social engineering phase
e) Standard deviation
f) Oral irrigation
g) Rehabilitation
h) Validity
Section II
a) Define survey. Discuss steps in survey. Add a note on pathfinder survey.
b) Define primary health care. Discuss principles of primary health care.
c) Classify experimental studies. Describe the steps in a randomized controlled trial.
a) Presentation of data
b) Dental hygienist
c) Bangalore method of composting
d) Caries activity test
a) Constant
b) Propaganda
c) Bass method
d) Chemical used in Nalgonda technique
e) Hypothesis
f) Dental floss
g) Breakpoint chlorination
h) Deductible
0715E081
Date: 17/07/2015
(4) Write legibly.
Section I
a) Define health education. Discuss the various steps involved in planning for a health
education program.
b) Discuss defluoridation
c) Primary health care
a) Difference from private and practitioner and public health dentist
b) Blanket referral
c) Systemic fluorides
d) Recent advances in dental caries vaccine
e) COPRA
a) Co-Insurance
b) Bias
c) Prevalence
d) Third generation sealants
e) Matching
f) TLD the fluoride
g) Pandemic
h) known to unknown
Section II
a) Define epidemiology. Describe analytical epidemiology in detail.
b) Define sampling. Describe the various sampling methodologies.
c) Define diet and nutrition. Discuss in brief, role of diet in dental caries.
a) Chemical methods of caries removal
b) Mechanism of action of fluoride
c) Normal curve
d) EFDA
e) Principles of ethics
a) Global monitoring age
b) Crude death rate
c) Zoogleal layer
d) Cohort
e) Deductible
f) Sensitivity of index
g) Give example for a socio-economic status scale
h) Web of causation
0115E046
Date: 19/01/2015
(4) Write legibly.
Section I
a) Define epidemiology. Describe epidemiology of oral cancer in detail.
b) Define data & enumerate its sources. Describe the various diagrammatic ways of
presentation of data.
c) Describe Nalgonda's technique for defluoridation of water in detail.
a) ART
b) Modified Stillman technique of brushing
c) Delta dental plans
d) Dental hygienist
a) What is null hypothesis?
b) Define index
c) Describe RPI index score 6
d) What is primordial prevention?
e) What is a taboo?
f) What is the certainly lethal dose(CLD) and safely tolerated dose (STD) of fluoride?
g) Define ‘median'
h) Give 2 functions of DCI
Section II
a) How will you carry out infection control in a dental clinic?
b) What is the role of diet & nutrition for prevention & control of dental diseases?
c) Define public health dentistry. What are the functions of public health dentist?
a) Pathfinder survey
b) Composting
c) Rapid sand filtration
d) Chronic fluoride toxicity
a) What are the indicators of pit and fissure sealants?
b) Who is the president of DCI?
c) Which are the chemicals added for fluoridation of water?
d) What is incremental dental care?
e) Define cohort
f) Name two disclosing agents
g) Which kind of waste is disposed of in blue bag?
h) What is UCR fee?
0714E091
Date: 18/07/2014

(4) Write legibly.
Section I
Q.1 Long essays (14)
a) Define public health dentistry. Discuss the role of public health dentist in developing
country like India.
b) Write in detail the historical evolution of fluorides.
a) Correlation and regression
b) Health for all 2000
c) Vital layer
d) CPI LOA
e) Dental caries vaccine
a) What is problem village?
b) Write the full form of THETA & SHARP.
c) Who is the father of public health?
d) When WHO was established?
e) What are 5 A'S?
f) When and who had given the concept of New Zealand dental nurse?
g) What do you mean by proxy consent?
h) What is Iceberg’s phenomenon?
Section II
a) It was reported to government that in the village X- taluka person aged even 20 years had
severe eroded teeth; joint and back pain which has made them crippled. Government has
asked you to solve the above mentioned problem.
b) Define epidemiology. Classify epidemiological studies. Write a brief note on Randomized
controlled trial (RCT)
a) Prevention is better than cure
b) Pathfinder survey
c) COPRA
d) Delta dental plans
e) Changing concept of public health
a) Which health care wasted are dispose in yellow bags?
b) What is blanket referral
c) Which was the first dental college established in world and in India?
d) What is two tone solution?
e) Who introduced the concept of ART?
f) Calculate the prevalence of periodontitis if the incidence for 2 years is 40.
g) What do you mean by Veracity?
h) What do you mean by “coming in crowd”?
0114E061
Date: 18/01/2014
(4) Write legibly.
Section I
a) Define biostatistics and data. Discuss in detail various methods of presentation of statistical
data.
b) Write the mechanism of action of fluoride in prevention of dental caries. Writing acidulated
phosphate fluorine application in detail.
c) Write the duties of a public health dentist & differences between clinical and public health
dentistry.
a) Tertiary prevention
b) Disposal of health care waste
c) Snyder’s test
d) Incremental dental care
e) Rapid sand filtration
a) Enumerate various forms of smokeless tobacco used in India.
b) Define health
c) Write the difference between Z and T test
d) Define denturist
e) Where is the headquarters of WHO situated?
f) Which are the two main principles of ART?
g) Enumerate the types of evaluation
h) What is schmutzdecke/ vital layer?
Section II
a) Define epidemiology. Describe case control study.
b) Define index. Describe CPTIN index
c) What is plaque. Describe mechanical plaque control.
a) Pathfinder survey
b) Caries vaccine
c) Tell- show- do
d) Payment mechanisms in India
e) DCI
a) Mention tools of dental public health.
b) What is full form of COPRA?
c) Define diet and nutrition
d) What is characteristic of fourth generation pit and fissure sealants?
e) Define ethics
f) Name common transmissible infections
g) Why is fluorosis is not found in deciduous teeth?
h) ADA specifications of tooth brush
0713E097
Date: 20/07/2013
(4) Write legibly.
Section I
a) Define dental auxiliary. Classify & describe in detail about various auxiliaries in dentistry.
b) Define health education. Describe various principles of health education.
a) Sampling techniques
b) Difference between case control and cohort studies
c) Classify topical fluorides, describe Knutson technique
d) Levels of prevention for dental caries
e) ART
a) Delta dental plans
b) Consent
c) Planning cycle
d) Consumer forum
e) Functions of DCI
f) Pilot survey
g) CPTIN probe
h) Audio-visual aids
Section II
a) Define water fluoridation. Enumerate & write in detail about various types of systemic
fluoridation.
b) Define epidemiology. Describe uses & various steps involved in descriptive epidemiology.
a) Classify pit and fissure sealants. Write steps involved in application of pit and fissure
sealants.
b) New Zealand dental nurse
c) Third party payments plans
d) Elements of primary health centre
e) Slow sand filtration
a) Bangalore method of composting
b) Calibration
c) Consents
d) Stratified random sampling
e) Approaches in health education
f) Tertiary levels of prevention for periodontal disease
g) Constituents of cigarette
h) Tooth brush
0113E058
Date: 19/01/2013
(4) Write legibly.
Section I
a) Classify epidemiology. Write in detail about case-control study.
b) Various methods of health education
c) Define and write in detail about principle of primary health care. Enumerate functions of
primary health centre.
a) Measures of central tendency and dispersion
b) Ethical principles
c) Pit and fissure sealants
d) Pathfinder surveys and index age groups
e) EFDA
a) Safely tolerated dose of Fluorides
b) Define cohort
c) Any 2 limitations of DMFT index
d) Define health
e) New type of dental auxiliaries
f) Brushing method used for children
g) What are the components of epidemiological triad?
h) Define incidence
Section II
a) Define plaque control. Write in detail about chlorhexidine.
b) Explain mechanism of action for fluorides. Enumerate classification of topical fluoride.
c) Define and classify index. Enumerate ideal requisites of an index.
a) Diet and dental caries
b) Prevention for oral cancer
c) Preventive orthodontics
d) Delta dental plans
e) Nalgonda technique
a) Name any 4 caries activity tests
b) Define dental fluorosis
c) The levels of nicotine levels in 6 cigarettes were 13.0, 11.8, 15.4, 17.4, 31.2 and 24.3mg.
what is the mean of these values?
d) What is emporiatrics?
e) On which day, world health day is celebrated?
f) Define primary prevention
g) Interpretation of OHI-S
h) Principles of ART
0812E160
Date: 01/08/2012
(4) Write legibly.
Section I
a) Define various different levels of prevention. Describe in detail primary prevention of
dental caries.
b) Describe variety sources & methods of presentation of data.
c) Describe an ideal toothbrush & describe any one brushing method in detail.
a) Management of bio-waste
b) Nalgonda technique
c) OSHA regulations of infection control
d) Bisbiguanides
a) Define incidence
b) Inference of OHI-S
c) Name any two sugar substitutes
d) Write any two principles of primary health care
e) Oral malignancy is most common in ___
f) Define balanced diet
g) 1st July of every year is celebrated as ___
h) Write use of student's t-test
Section II
a) Define & classify epidemiology. Write in detail cohort study.
b) Describe procedure & importance of ART in community
c) Define public health dentistry. Give difference between general dentistry & public health
dentistry.
a) Discuss briefly the principles of health education
b) Hopewood house study
c) WHO
d) Taboos in dentistry
a) Who is father of health statistics?
b) Define prevalence
c) Write the markings of CPTIN probe
d) Write the objectives of oral health programme
e) What is the lethal dose of fluoride for 70kg adult?
f) Define plaque and calculus
g) What is an iatrogenic disorder?
h) Which type of dental auxiliary is advisable for Indian conditions?

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Final B.D.S. Examination

Q.1 write any two (14)

Instructions: (1) Answer to the point.

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