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NBDHE Dental Hygienist Practice Test
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The NBDHE Dental Hygienist exam assesses a hygienist’s ability to understand relevant information including basic biomedical, dental and dental hygiene sciences and the ability to apply the information into a problem-solving context. It has 350 questions and has two parts: Discipline Based and Dental Hygiene Patient Cases. The first part covers these main exam sections: Scientific Basis for Dental Hygiene Practice; Provision of Clinical Dental Hygiene Services and Principles of Community Health and Research. The second part of patient cases contains at least one each of geriatric,... Show more
NBDHE Dental Hygienist Practice Test
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1. A dental carie is another name for a _____________.
2. After an outbreak of herpetic gingivostomatitis, the herpes simplex virus may remain dormant in which of the following?
3. A flat stone may be used to sharpen a curette by hand. The face of the curette should be at what angle to the stone?
4. Radiographic intensifying screens are used for
5. Which of the following is a characteristic of an overdenture?
6. A flat stone may be used to sharpen a curette by hand. The face of the curette should be at what angle to the stone?
7. A pedicle graft uses a flap of tissue from which part of the mouth?
8. If a dentist is placing a bonded filling, she will do which of the following to ensure the filling bonds to the tooth?
9. A veneer will correct all of the following except?
10. A vasoconductor does which of the following when used in conjunction with Lidocaine?
11. Which of the following is one of the main reasons for a root canal?
12. A veneer will correct all of the following except?
13. Fluoride is typically introduced in all of the following ways except by ____________?
14. After an outbreak of herpetic gingivostomatitis, the herpes simplex virus may remain dormant in which of the following?
15. A vasoconductor does which of the following when used in conjunction with Lidocaine?
16. Where does the bone for a bone augmentation typically comes from in an implantation procedure?
17. A pedicle graft uses a flap of tissue from which part of the mouth?
18. Where does the bone for a bone augmentation typically comes from in an implantation procedure?
19. What nerve supplies the intrinsic muscles of the tongue?

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