TOPIC: HEALTH EDUCATION 📌 BRIEF NOTES: 🔹Health education is a process that informs, motivates, and helps people adopt and maintain healthy practices and lifestyles. It advocates environmental changes...
TOPIC: DENTAL ETHICS 📌 SHORT NOTES Dental ethics means moral duties and obligations of the dentist towards his patients, professional colleagues and to the society. Code of ethics was framed by the...
TOPIC: DENTAL ETHICS 📌 KEY POINTS TO PONDER DEFINTIONS: Dental ethics means moral duties and obligations of the dentist towards his patients, professional colleagues and to the society. -Code of...
TOPIC: HEALTH EDUCATION 📌 SHORT NOTES: 1) OBJECTIVES: Informing people (Cognitive objective) Motivating people (Affective objective) Guiding into action (Behavioral objective) ...
TOPIC: IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS 1) EPIDEMIOLOGY: (John M. Last 1988) The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of...
IMPORTANT REVISION NOTES 📌 INTRODUCTION: 🔹Surgical extraction of third molars (wisdom teeth) often requires carefully planned flap designs to ensure optimal access, visibility, and minimal trauma. A...
🌟 PERIODONTICS-PSYCHIATRY RELATIONSHIP 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Psychosomatic disorder in the oral cavity may be caused by either the development of habits that injure the periodontium, or the direct...
🌟 PERIODONTICS-ORAL SURGERY RELATIONSHIP 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Teeth should be extracted in an atraumatic manner to conserve alveolar bone. 🔹Clinicians should avoid applying pressure at the crest of the...
TOPIC: PERIO-PROSTHO RELATIONSHIP 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Crown-lengthening surgery is the surgical procedure which exposes adequate clinical crown to prevent the placement of the crown margin into the...
🌟 PERIO-ENDO RELATIONSHIP 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Periodontal probing, pulp vitality test and radiographs are the cornerstones for diagnosis and classifying endo-perio lesions. 🔹When fistula with gutta...
🌟 PERIO-PROSTHO RELATIONSHIP 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Crown-lengthening surgery is the surgical procedure which exposes adequate clinical crown to prevent the placement of the crown margin into the area...
⭐ CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Pin Cushion Effect- One charged end of chlorhexidine (CHX) molecule binding to the tooth surface and the other remaining available to interact with...
DEFINITIONS OF ORTHODONTICS 🔹MALOCCLUSION: Any deviation from normal occlusion. 🔹MOMENT (of a force): The tendency of a force to cause rotation. 🔹NANCE PALATAL ARCH: A maxillary fixed anchorage...
🌟 MUST READ DEFINTIONS 🔸FACEMASK: An extra-oral appliance, commonly used in Class III malocclusion, that uses anchorage from the chin and forehead to place anterior forces on the maxillary...
IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS IN ORTHODONTICS 🔸ADAPTIVE SWALLOWING PATTERN: A swallowing pattern that exists when a normal lip-to-lip anterior oral seal cannot be achieved. 🔸ANCHORAGE: The resistance to...
DEFINITIONS IN ORTHODONTICS 🔸BINDING: During tooth movement along an archwire, a high couple occurs between bracket and wire, owing to overtipping of the tooth. Binding is the locking of these two...
TOPIC: CLASSIFICATION OF MALOCCLUSIONS 🔹Zygoma (or) Key ridge corresponds to the Mesiobuccal root of the upper 1st molar 🔹A patient is having an edge to edge or end on relation of the first molar in...
SHORT NOTES FOR ORTHODONTICS 1. The term orthodontics is coined by Le Foulon 2. The pioneer in the treatment of cleft palate and related problems, Norman Kingsley...
TOPIC: GROWTH SPURT 📌 KEY POINTS: Growth does not take place uniformly at all times. This period when a sudden acceleration of growth occurs and this sudden increase in growth is termed ‘Growth...
TOPIC: JACKSON’S TRIAD 📌 KEY POINTS: The aims and the objectives of orthodontics have been summarized by Jackson as Jackson’s triad. The three main objectives of orthodontic treatment are:...
TOPIC: FORENSIC RADIOLOGY 🌟 IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔸Forensic Odontology: It is the element of dental medicine that examines studies and proposes the evidences in court. 🔸Bite-mark Matching:...
TOPIC: SOFT-TISSUE CALCIFICATION 🌟 IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔹Antroliths: It is the term used to describe calculus located in the paranasal sinuses. Majority of patients present clinical signs and...
TOPIC: TRAUMATIC INJURIES TO THE MAXILLOFACIAL REGION 🌟 IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔸Factors that significantly increase susceptibility to dental injury are postnormal occlusion, an overjet exceeding...
TOPIC: SYSTEMIC DISEASES MANIFESTED IN JAW 🌟 IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔸Diabetes Mellitus: Polyuria, polydipsia (excessive intake of water), polyphagia, nocturia and rapid weight loss are present...
TOPIC: DISEASES OF BONE MANIFESTED IN JAW 🌟 IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔹Fibrous Dysplasia: It is also known as leontiasis ossea. It can be Monostotic Fibrous Dysplasia (only single bone is...
TOPIC: SALIVARY GLAND DISORDERS 🌟 IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔹Aplasia and Hypoplasia Of Glands: Unilateral gland is missing or is very small compared to the contralateral side with congenital...
IMPORTANT REVISION NOTES 📌 INTRODUCTION: 🔹Surgical extraction of third molars (wisdom teeth) often requires carefully planned flap designs to ensure optimal access, visibility, and minimal trauma. A...
🌟 PERIODONTICS-ORAL SURGERY RELATIONSHIP 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Teeth should be extracted in an atraumatic manner to conserve alveolar bone. 🔹Clinicians should avoid applying pressure at the crest of the...
TOPIC: TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA 📌 IMPORTANT QUESTION & ANSWER Q1. Define trigeminal neuralgia. Ans. It is defined as sudden, usually unilateral severe, brief, stabbing, lancinating, recurring pain...
TOPIC: TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT 📌 IMPORTANT QUESTION AND ANSWER Q1. Define temporomandibular joint. Ans. It is a highly specialized synovial, diarthroidal non-weight bearing joint, both the joints are...
TOPIC: IMPACTION 📌 IMPORTANT QUESTION & ANSWER Q1. Define impaction. Ans. An impacted tooth is one that fails to erupt and will not eventually assume its anatomical arch relationship beyond the...
QUICK VIVA QUESTIONS Q1. Define matrixing.Ans. ‘Matrixing’ is the procedure by which a temporary wall is created opposite to axial walls and surrounding areas of the tooth structure that were...
VIVA QUESTIONS Q1. How are cements classified based on their function?Ans: Classification of Cements: Liners Bases Restorative materials Luting agents Q2. What are pulp protecting agents?Ans: ‘Pulp...
IMPORTANT VIVA QUESTIONS 📌 INSTRUMENTS Q1. What is a plastic instrument? Ans. Plastic Instruments is an instrument used for carrying the cement in a plastic stage application into the cavity. It has...
IMPORTANT VIVA QUESTIONS CONTD. 📌 INSTRUMENTS: Q1. What is G.V Black’s Classification? Ans: This classification is based on the use of the instruments: 1) Cutting instruments ...
IMPORTANT VIVA QUESTIONS CONTD… Q1. What is meant by establishing outline form? Ans: Establishing outline form means: Placing the preparation margins in the positions they will occupy in the...
IMPORTANT NOTES ABOUT FULCRUM LINES 📍 INTRODUCTION: In removable partial dentures (RPDs), achieving stability and retention is crucial for patient comfort and function. One of the key biomechanical...
TOPIC: OSSEOINTEGRATION AND MATERIALS 🎯 KEY FACTS 🔹The term osseointegration was coined by P.I. Branemark in 1977. 🔹Minimum period required for osseointegration of the implants in the maxilla is 6...
TOPIC: Introduction, Diagnosis and Treatment Planning 🎯 KEY POINTS: 🔹Dahl of Germany introduced the mucosal inserts or button implants for maxilla in 1940. 🔹Dahl also conceived the concept of the...
TOPIC: MAXILLOFACIAL DEFECTS AND PROSTHESIS 🎯 KEY POINTS: 🔹Rapid prototyping technology used in maxillofacial prosthodontics is used to create three-dimensional models from a three-dimensional...
TOPIC: INTRODUCTION OF MAXILLOFACIAL PROSTHODONTICS 🎯 KEY POINTS: 🔹Ambroise Pare (1517–1590) was first to close palatal perforations. 🔹Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) was famous Danish astronomer who made an...
SPACE MAINTAINERS Space maintainer is a device used to maintain the space created by the loss of a deciduous tooth. A space maintainer should fulfil the following requirements: – It should...
Q1. All of the following procedures have proved beneficial in treating a mentally retarded child EXCEPT one. Which one is the EXCEPTION? a) speak slowly and in very simple terms b) listen carefully to...
Q1. Radiographs of a preschool child with________ will show obliteration of the pulp chambers with secondary dentin, a characteristic finding. amelogenesis imperfecta dentinogenesis imperfecta...