Aging And Periodontium In Periodontology
📌 POINTS TO PONDER ✴️ Common age changes in all periodontal tissues: 🔹Narrowing of vessel lumen 🔹Thickening of vessel walls 🔹Loss of cellularity 🔹Increasing fibrosis
📌 POINTS TO PONDER ✴️ Common age changes in all periodontal tissues: 🔹Narrowing of vessel lumen 🔹Thickening of vessel walls 🔹Loss of cellularity 🔹Increasing fibrosis
📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Fenestration is window-like circumscribed defect, whereas dehiscence is cleft-like split defect. 🔹Osteoblasts are bone builders, whereas osteoclasts are bone consumers. 🔹Matrix Gla protein is a negative regulator of mineralization. 📌 VIVA VOCE
TOPIC: TOOTH NUMBERING SYSTEM 📌 KEY POINTS: Tooth numbering systems were originally developed as a shortcut to minimize the effort of hand-written record-keeping in dentistry. To identify a specific tooth, arch, quadrant, and the tooth’s name. Currently, only three most popular systems are favored worldwide. These popular systems are as follows: • Zsigmondy/Palmer (the eight-tooth quadrant) […]
TOPIC: VIRCHOW’S TRIAD 📌 KEY POINTS: 🔹Virchow’s Triad – It refers to the 3 primary factors which can promote thrombus formation, these are useful to consider when thinking about the possible causes in a particular situation, and it include: 1) Endothelial injury 2) Stasis, turbulence or abnormal blood flow 3) Blood hypercoagulability. ➡️ The list […]
HMP SHUNT PATHWAY 📌 QUICK REVISION NOTES ➡️The HMP (Hexose Monophosphate Pathway) Shunt, also known as the 🔺Pentose Phosphate Pathway or 🔺Phosphogluconate Pathway, is a biochemical pathway that serves as an alternative metabolic pathway for glucose.💡The First Phase is Oxidative and Irreversible. 🔹Glucose-6-phosphate (G6P) is converted via a series of steps into Ribulose-5-phosphate.
Q1. When treating a child who is obviously afraid, the dentist should: use restraint use the hand-over-mouth technique (HOME) permit the child to express his fear avoid all reference to the child’s fear Answer Key: permit the child to express his fear — identify the fear All behavioral patterns are motivated by anger and fear. […]
TOPIC: CHEMISTRY OF NUCLEOTIDES AND NUCLEIC ACID 📌 PRACTICE QUESTION AND ANSWER Q.1. What are nucleoproteins? Ans: Nucleoproteins are conjugated proteins, characterized by presence of non-protein prosthetic group nucleic acid attached to one or more molecules of a simple protein, a basic protein histone or protamine. Nucleoproteins →Nucleic acid + proteins (Histone or Protamine). Q.2. […]
TOPIC: BASIC INTRODUCTION OF HUMAN BODY ⭐ PRACTICE QUESTION & ANSWER 1. Which of the listed terms is described by: “All the chemical processes that take place in the organelles and cytoplasm of the cells of the body”? A. MetabolismB. Cellular respirationC. HomeostasisD. Physiology Answer is A: The quoted statement is a definition of metabolism […]
SOLVED MCQs FOR NEET-MDS PREPARATION 💡Composition of Gutta-percha in GP is: a) 66% b) 20% c) 11% d) 4% Answer key: b) 20% 💡Ovate pontic is indicated in: a) Knife edged ridges b) Well rounded ridges c) Recently extracted socket d) Flat ridges Answer key: c) Recently extracted socket 💡Type B Merin’s classification is recalled […]
TOPIC: BASICS OF DENTAL ANATOMY ⭐ KEY POINTS: 📌 TOOTH: Teeth are mineralized structures except for the pulp and are located in the first part of the digestive tract. A tooth is defined as “one of the hard tissues that are positioned on the jaws and help in holding and mastication of food, also as weapons […]
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