Endo Final - Surgery

Front 1

Suturing should be accomplished by:
1. Moving the needle through attached tissue to unattached tissue.
2. Moving the needle through unattached tissue to attached tissue.
3. Using only interrupted sutures.
4. Using only chromic (gut) sutures.

Back 1

2. Moving the needle through unattached tissue to attached tissue.

Front 2

Which of the following statements related to Incision and Drainage (I&D) procedures is false?
1. I&D procedures are carried out to release purulent or hemorrhagic exudates that are trapped within tissues.
2. I&D procedures are carried out to relieve pain.
3. Swellings should be incised only if they are fluctuant.
4. Regional block anesthesia should be obtained to avoid injection into inflamed tissues.

Back 2

3. Swellings should be incised only if they are fluctuant.

Front 3

Of the following, the material of choice for a retrograde filling is:
1. IRM
2. cyanoacrylate
3. alloy
4. heated gutta percha

Back 3

1. IRM

Front 4

The Appropriateness of Care and Quality Assurance Guidelines of the American Association of Endodontists list all of the following surgical treatments except:
1. Incision and Drainage, Cortical Trephination
2. Periradicular Curettage, Root-End Resection (Periradicular Surgery or Apicoectomy), Root End Filling (Retrofilling)
3. Biopsy, Root Repair, Hemisection, Root Resection (Root Amputation)
4. Intentional Replantation, Surgical Removal of the Apical Segment of a Fractured Root
5. All of the above are included

Back 4

5. All of the above are included

Front 5

Prognosis of surgical and non-surgical root canal treatment is best described as:
1. Good, bad, ugly
2. Healed, healing, not healed
3. Favorable, questionable, unfavorable
4. Excellent, good, questionable, poor, hopeless
5. Success, questionable, failure

Back 5

3. Favorable, questionable, unfavorable

Front 6

Success of surgical and non-surgical root canal treatment is best described as:
1. Good, bad, ugly
2. Healed, healing, not healed
3. Favorable, questionable, unfavorable
4. Excellent, good, questionable, poor, hopeless
5. Success, questionable, failure

Back 6

2. Healed, healing, not healed

Front 7

A contraindication for performing endodontic apical surgery is:
1. Medical history of rheumatic heart disease.
2. A tooth with a post and crown and no evidence of canal obturation material apical to the post.
3. Combined endodontic and periodontal problems.
4. Extent of the external oblique ridge and proximity of neurovascular structures.

Back 7

4. Extent of the external oblique ridge and proximity of neurovascular structures.