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Public health dentistry is mainly concerned with the following health practices
1) Preventive and promotive
2) Promotive and therapeutic
3) Preventive and therapeutic
4) All of the above

Community Dentistry Answer: 1


Public health dentistry is primarily concerned with preventive and promotive health practices (Answer: 1). It focuses on the prevention of oral diseases and the promotion of oral health through community-based programs, education, and policy implementation rather than solely on therapeutic interventions.


Clinical wastes in hospitals are to be disposed in which colour bags
1) Yellow
2) Black
3) Green
4) Red
Community Dentistry Answer: 1

1) Yellow: This is often used for isolation wastes, such as those from
patients with a communicable disease or from the isolation ward. It may also be
used for trace chemotherapy waste.
2) Black: Typically used for non-infectious waste that is not recyclable, such
as general waste from hospital areas not directly involved in patient care.
3) Green: This is commonly used for anatomical waste, which includes human
tissues, organs, body parts, and animal carcasses used in research or treatment.
4) Red: As mentioned, is used for infectious or biohazardous waste that poses a
risk of infection or disease transmission.


COLOR CODING FOR HOSPITAL WASTE





Color



Waste type



Examples





Yellow



Infectious clinical waste



Body fluids, medicines,
clinical lab waste, and pharmaceutical waste





Red



Contaminated waste



Disposable items like
catheters, syringes, and urine bags





White or translucent



Sharps waste



Needles, scalpels, and blades





Blue



Medical glassware waste



Broken, discarded, and
contaminated glass





Purple



Cytotoxic and cytostatic
waste



Materials contaminated with
cytotoxic and cytostatic drugs





Yellow and black/tiger stripe



Offensive/hygiene waste



Nappies, sanitary waste, and
colostomy bags



Intensity of caries by snyder test is determined by
1) Rapidity at which medium turns greenish blue to red
2) Rapidity at which medium turns yellow to greenish blue
3) Rapidity at which medium turns greenish blue to yellow
4) Rapidity at which medium turns greenish blue to colourless
Community Dentistry Answer: 3

Hospice refers to
1) Group of professionals who provide counseling to families
2) Colostomy bag provision by an association of colostomy patients in USA
3) Euthansia for cancer patient
4) Special group of people helping the old and terminally ill patients
Community Dentistry Answer: 4

Ethics can be best defined as
1) A set of rules to be followed by a profession
2) A code of conduct which the members of an association are expected to follow
3) A set of unwritten rules and guidelines
4) The science of moral duty
Community Dentistry Answer: 4

Plaque is considered to be which kind of variable in a study conducted to determine a polishing paste that is most effective in removing plaque
1) Independent
2) Experimental
3) Extraneous
4) Dependent
Community Dentistry Answer: 1

Which of the following can be considered as "finger prints" analage in dentition
1) Incremental lines
2) Secondary dentin
3) Pattern of attrition
4) Transparency of root
Community Dentistry Answer: 1

Host factors in effecting caries are
1) Genetics
2) Diet
3) Oral hygiene
4) All of the above
Community Dentistry Answer: 4

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