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 well-designed flap provides adequate exposure while preserving blood supply and ensuring smooth post-operative healing. 💡In this blog, we will discuss the most commonly used flap designs for third […]
🌟 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 socket to compress the rim of the alveolar bone as it results in the collapse of the remaining buccal plate of the bone and also […]
TOPIC: TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA 📌 IMPORTANT QUESTION & ANSWER Q1. Define trigeminal neuralgia. Ans. It is defined as sudden, usually unilateral severe, brief, stabbing, lancinating, recurring pain in the distribution of one or more branches of the fifth cranial nerve. It is also called as tic douloureax, Father gill disease. Q2. Mention the various aetiology of […]
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 independent. Q2. Mention various types of movement in the temporomandibular joint. Ans. Upper joint cavity has gliding movements while lower joint cavity has hinge movements. Protrusion, retrusion, opening, […]
SALIVARY GLAND DISORDERS 📌 IMPORTANT QUESTION & ANSWER Q1. Classify salivary secretion? Ans. Serous. Mucous. Mixed. Q2. Classify salivary gland. Ans. Parotid gland [serous]. Submandibular [mixed predominantly mucous]. Sublingual [mixed]. Q3. Define Anatomical opening of the parotid duct. Ans.Parotid duct [stenson’s duct] opening is seen as a papilla in the buccal mucosa opposite the maxillary […]
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 chronological eruption date. It is also defined as impedance of tooth along the path of eruption. Q2. Mention of few indications for removal of […]
LOCAL ANAESTHESIA 📌 IMPORTANT QUESTION & ANSWER Q1. Define Verrill’s sign. Ans. Drooping of the upper eyelid to a position half way across the pupil is an indication that the maximum sedative dose has been administered. Q2. Mention a few oropharyngeal airway. Ans. Brooks airway . Gudels airway Q3. Explain the rule of thumb (the […]
LOCAL ANAESTHESIA 📌 IMPORTANT QUESTION & ANSWER Q1. Define nerve block. Ans. It is a procedure in which the local anesthetic is deposited (injected) close to a nerve trunk. It blocks sensation from the region which receives the peripheral distribution of the nerve. Q2. Define intra osseous injection. Ans. Intra osseous injections are one which […]
LOCAL ANAESTHESIA 📌 IMPORTANT QUESTION & ANSWER Q1. Define Syringe. Ans. It is the vehicle by the contents of the anesthetic cartridge are delivered through the needle to the patient. Q2. Classify individual composition of local anesthetic solution. Ans. Local anesthetic 2% Adrenaline 1:80000 (Vasoconstrictor) Methylparaben- 1 mg (preservative) Thymol -20 mg (Fungicidal) Sodium metabisul […]
LOCAL ANAESTHESIA 📌 IMPORTANT QUESTION & ANSWER Q1. Define local anesthesia. Ans. If has been defined as a loss of sensation in a circumscribed area of the body caused by depression of excitation in nerve endings or an inhibition of the conduction process in peripheral nerves. Q2. Enumerate various methods of inducing local anesthesia. Ans. […]
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