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What is the relationships between patient, dentist, and dental hygienist when coordinating the efforts to attain and maintain the oral health of the patient?
Cotherapist
What are the services within the framework of the total treatment plan to be carried out by the dental hygienist?
Dental hygiene care plan
What is the process of enabling people to increase control and improve their health through self care, mutual aid, and the creation of healthy environments?
Health promotion
What is an action taken by a dental hygienist to maintain or restore a patient's optimal oral health?
Intervention
What is a forecast of the probable course and outcome of the treatment of a condition or disease?
Prognosis
What is the term applied to a legal relationship between dentist and dental team members in practice?
Supervision
What kind of supervision does the dentist diagnose and authorize the condition to be treated, remain on the premises while the procedure is performed, and approves the work performed before dismissal of the patient?
Direct Supervision
What type of supervision has the dentist authorize procedure for a patient of record but does not stay for procedure being carried out but LDH. Treatment is carried out by dentist diagnosis and plan.
General Supervision
What type of supervision does the dentist personally treat patient, but DH can perform a supportive procedure?
Personal Supervision
What are the 5 interrelated roles that DH are found serving?
clinician, educator, researcher,administrator/manager, advocate
ADPIE
Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, evaluate
T/F: Educational and clinical services are mutually independent and separable
false; dependent and inseparable
Who is Dr. Alfred C. Fones?
"father of dental hygiene"; emphasizes the importance of education
Who uses educational theory and methodology to analyze health needs, develops health promotion strategies, and delivers and evaluates the results of attaining or maintaining oral health for individuals or groups?
the EDUCATOR
What refers to measures carried out so that disease does not occur and is truly prevented?
Primary Prevention
What involves the treatment of early disease to prevent further progress of potentially irreversible conditions that can lead to extensive rehabilitative treatment or even loss of teeth?
Secondary Prevention
What uses methods to replace lost tissues and to rehabilitate the oral cavity to a level where function is as near to normal as possible after secondary prevention has not been successful?
Tertiary Prevention
What is obtained by observation and interaction with the patient? ex. CC, perception of health, care and vallue placed on oral health
Subjective Data
What includes physical and oral assessment?
Objective Data
ADPIE role
Clinician
What role in DH applies scientific method to choose therapies, educational methods, or content; interprets and applies findings and solves problems
Researcher
What role in DH applies organizational skills, communicates objectives, identifies and manages resources, and evaluates and modifies programs of health, education, or healthcare?
Administrator/Manager
What role in DH influences legislators, health agencies, and other organizations to bring existing health problems and available resources together to resolve problems and improve access to care.
Advocate
What are dental hygiene therapies or patient educational activities that reduce, eliminate, or prevent the cause of the problem?
Determining Interventions
What represent measurabke criteria for each intervention?
Prognosis
What refers to a learned set of beliefs, values, attitudes, convictions, and behaviors that are common to a group of people and usually passsed down from generation to generation
Culture
What is a set of congruent attitudes, skills, behaviors, and policies that enable effective cross-cultural communication for delivery of oral health services?
Cultural competence
What refers to a dynamic relationship between provider and patient that results in culturally relevant and culturally specific oral healthcare recommendations?
Culturally effective oral health care
What refers to making an effort to understand the language, culture, and behaviors of diverse individuals and groups?
Cultural sensativity
Doing good for a bnenefit or enhanced welfare
Beneficence
basic values of a profession' guide to choices or actions by impling a preference for what is deemed to be acceptable in the profession
Core values
A problem that involves two morally correct choices or courses of action.
Ethical Dilemma
A common problem wherein a solution is readily grounded in the governing practice act, recognized laws, or acceptable standards of care
Ethical issue
A sense of moral obligation' a system of moral principles that governs the conduct of a professional group planned by them for the common good of people' principles of morality
Ethics
avoidance of harm to others; a core value
Non maleficence
a duty to tell the truth when information is disclosed to patients about treatment
veracity
prevention of blood borne pathogens
universal precautions
preventions of other body fluids besides blood (except sweat)
standard precautions
artificially generated collection of particles suspended in air
aerosol
suspension of particles in air that consist partially or wholly of microorganisms
microbial aerosol
what is diminished reactivity to specific antigens inability to react to skin test antigen because of immunosuppression
anergy
response to antigen
antibody
capable of inducing an immune response
antigen
a person who has an infectious agent and serves as a source of infection
carrier
a person who has pathogenic organisms without symptoms
asymptomatic carrier
CDCP
United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CFU
colony forming unit
Communicable period of a disease
time when disease can be spread person to person
particles of moisture expelled while coughing, sneezing, and speaking that may contain infectious agents
Droplet
enzyme linked immunosorbent assay' lab test to detect antibody in blood serum
ELISA or EIA
inanimate object on which disease producing agents may be conveyed
fomite
HCP
healthcare personnel
the microscopic living organisms of a region
microbiota
injection by rout other than alimentary tract
parenteral
4 factors that alter normal defenses
physical condition, systemic diseases, drug therapy, prostheses and transplants
less than 50 micrometers in diameter
aerosol
greater than 50 micrometers in diameter
spatter
Tuberculosis, hepatitis, AIDS, herpes
pathogens transmissible by the oral cavity
a resistant organism that is an AIDS-defining illness; standard precautions are not sufficient to protect DHCP from transmission
Tuberculosis
Incubation period for Tuberculosis
as long as 10 weeks
most commonly occurring Hep, transmitted fecal- oral, incubation period 10 to 50 days, communicable during the 2 to 3 week period before jaundice
Hep A
occurrence has increased in past 20 years, transmitted through blood and other body fluids, incubation period 2-6 months
Hep B
most common blood borne infection in US, can be transmitted through percutaneous exposure to contaminated blood and plasma derivatives, contaminated needles and syringes, transfusion, or accidental needle stick, demonstrated in saliva, tattooing
Hep C
cannot cause infection except in the presence of HBV infection, immunization of Hep B will protect from this,enterically transmitted nonA, non B hep, transmitted by fecal-oral or contaminated water
Hep E
occurs in periodontitis pockets with high prevalence
Herpesvirus
whitlow
herpes simplex virus
varicella-zoster virus
chicken pox and shingles
Epstein-Barr
mononucleosis, leukoplakia, periodontal disease severity
Human herpes virus 7
chronic periodontitis
herpes simplex infection of fingers results from virus entering through minor skin abrasions; mostly around fingers where cracks in skin occur
herpetic whitlow
transmission through blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and breast milk. found in saliva, tears, urine, and bronchial secretions,
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)
2 to 3 mm red band of gingival margin
gingivitis
ulceration and destruction of interdental papillae with spontaneous bleeding and pain may develop rapidly
Necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
NUG involving bone
Necrotizing ulcerative periodontitis
clinical hypersensativity state or allergy with a hereditary predisposition
atopy
interoduction of antigenic material or vaccine
inoculation
toxin treated by heat or chemical agent to destroy its deleterious properties
toxoid
test for presence of active or inactive tuberculosis, + test = redness and bump at injection site 2-3 days after injection
tuberculosis test
tetanus & diphtheria immun.
3 doses; 1 booster every 10 years
influenza
1 dose annually
transmission through blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and breast milk. found in saliva, tears, urine, and bronchial secretions,
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)
2 to 3 mm red band of gingival margin
gingivitis
ulceration and destruction of interdental papillae with spontaneous bleeding and pain may develop rapidly
Necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
NUG involving bone
Necrotizing ulcerative periodontitis
clinical hypersensativity state or allergy with a hereditary predisposition
atopy
interoduction of antigenic material or vaccine
inoculation
toxin treated by heat or chemical agent to destroy its deleterious properties
toxoid
test for presence of active or inactive tuberculosis, + test = redness and bump at injection site 2-3 days after injection
tuberculosis test
tetanus & diphtheria immun.
3 doses; 1 booster every 10 years
influenza
1 dose annually
Pneumococcal
1 dose
Hep B
3 doses (0, 1-2, 4-6 months)
Hep A
2 doses (0, 6-12 months)
Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)
1 dose if vacc. history is unreliable; 2 doses otherwise
varicella
2 doses (0, 4-8 weeks)
Meningococcal
1 dose
Face mask filtration
greater than 95%
Types of eyewear (5)
goggles, w/ side shields, curved frames, postmydriatic spectacles, child sized
Resident bacteria
stable bacteria
a microbiologic load, that is, the number of contaminated organisms present on a surface prior to sterilizatio or disinfection
bioburden
EPA
United States environmental protection agency
the joint action of agents so that their combination effect is greater than the sum of their individual parts
sunergism
OSAP
Organization for Safety and Asepsis Procedures
PEP
postexposure prophylaxis