You are interested in studying the caries experience at a Head Start program. The Columbus school you visit is composed of primarily Hispanic children who speak English as a second language. You want to implement a prevention program and get the parents more involved. The parents are mainly uninsured, but the children are eligible for Medicaid and SCHIP. Use this information to answer questions #52-56  Which of the following would be the most effective approach to gain support for your program?

You are asked to be an advisory resource for a children’s hospital to provide education for improved oral care for critically ill children that are there for extended periods of time. You conduct weekly educational programs for the clinic patients, their parents, and the hospital staff. In addition, you also give the children fluoride varnish treatments once per month. Use this information to answer questions #37-41   What education would be beneficial to share at the training sessions?

A dental hygienist employed by a children’s hospital dental clinic is responsible for coordinating programs to serve medically compromised children in the service area.  The population consists of a mix of diverse SES and ethnic groups.  The dental hygienist’s responsibilities include managing the clinic that provides dental and dental hygiene treatment for the children, training hospital staff in the daily oral care of hospitalized children,  serving as a resource to the hospital staff, conducting oral hygiene educational programs for clinic patients and their parents, and supervising the distribution of self-care fluoride products.  The effectiveness of the educational programs is evaluated by comparing pre-test and post-test scores of knowledge and oral health behavior of the clinic patients.    Answer questions #28-31 What type of evaluation involves a comparison of the pretest and posttest scores?

You are interested in studying the caries experience at a Head Start program. The Columbus school you visit is composed of primarily Hispanic children who speak English as a second language. You want to implement a prevention program and get the parents more involved. The parents are mainly uninsured, but the children are eligible for Medicaid and SCHIP/CHIP Use this information to answer questions #52-56  For each child, the average score for the dmft is d=4, f=0.5, m=0. What does this indicate?

You are asked to be an advisory resource for a children’s hospital to provide education for improved oral care for critically ill children that are there for extended periods of time. You conduct weekly educational programs for the clinic patients, their parents, and the hospital staff. In addition, you also give the children fluoride varnish treatments once per month. Use this information to answer questions #37-41 You decide to use a pre-test and post-tests with the adults to evaluate the effectiveness of each training session. What does this measure?

You gathered information from the Ohio Department of Health website about the caries rate of elementary school children in Franklin County and the state of Ohio in 2015. Then you collected information on caries rate in the school using the DMFT/DMFS index for your outreach program in 2020 and compared. What type of data collection are you using?  Use this information for #57 only

The board of education approached a public health dental hygienist about establishing a dental health education curriculum for the students enrolled in a public school system. The board was concerned that the only dental health education students received was during Children’s Dental Health Month when volunteer dental hygienists provided education to grades K, 3, 7, and 12. The classroom teachers were interested in implementing dental health education in the students health classes but were looking for guidance with lesson plan content and activities. The school system consists of 3500 students, grades K-12. Health care facilities, including a nurse who is available twice a week, are available at each school. Use this information to answer questions 11-15 For the public health dental hygienist to adequately understand the current knowledge on oral health, she/he should :

You are participating in an outdoor health fair at a local park. You ask each of the adult participants that visit your booth to complete a 10 question questionnaire in order to be registered to win an electric toothbrush. In your questionnaire, you ask demographic questions like sex, age, race, education level, and income range and then ask questions about oral hygiene habits, smoking, and how often they visit the dentist. You also conduct open mouth exams using a light to look for signs of oral cancer. Use this information to answer questions #42-47   Which of the following is NOT an advantage of doing open mouth screenings?

What is the current national range for water fluoridation established by the Centers for Disease Control?

A high school class of ten physically challenged students, 14-19 years of age, shows a need for improved oral hygiene. The high school nurse has asked the districts dental hygienist to assess their needs and to work with the nurse to implement a community outreach program for these students. The dental hygienist plans to set up a portable dental unit to orally screen the students and to implement an evaluation tool to determine the dental health knowledge of the group. Additionally, the hygienist plans to provide oral hygiene instruction each month during the remainder of the school year and the nurse will follow up with the instructions once a week.  The O’Learys plaque score at the initial assessment of the class was:  25%, 25%, 50%, 50%, 60%, 60%, 60%, 75%, 75%, and 100% The mean score for Oral Hygiene Index – Simplified score of the ten students was 4.8 Use this information to answer questions 22 – 27.   A complete dental assessment of the class should include all of the following EXCEPT one. Which one is the EXCEPTION?