Operative Dentistry and Endodontics MCQs
MCQs on Pulp & Periapical Infections – Operative Dentistry and Endodontics
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Pulp and Periapical Infections Multiple Choice Questions
- A twenty-one-year-old woman complains that regular, gentle brushing of her teeth is painful besides causing profuse bleeding. Oral examination reveals the loss of epithelium from the attached gingival of both arches. Which of the following dermatological problems is this patient most likely to have?
A. Benign mucous membrane pemphigiod
B. Chronic discoid lupus erythematosus
C. Pemphigus
D. Psoriasis - A flat, circumscribed discolouration of skin or mucosa that may vary in size and shape is referred to as:
A. Epulits
B. Macule
C. Nodule
D. papule - True about caries, all except:
A. Infectious and transmissible
B. Not due to microorganisms
C. Can develop in the absence of sucrose
D. Microorganisms play the most essential role - Plaque microflora can-split carbohydrates. What does it means?
A. Sacchrolytic
B. Saprophytic
C. Virulant
D. Avirulant - Which of the following represents soluble polysaccharide found in dental plaque and is formed from the fructose moiety of sucrose?
A. Levan
B. Dextran
C. Amlyopecting
D. Hyaluronic acid - Progression of dental caries on pit and fissure occurs from:
A. Apex of the pit and fissure
B. Wide and of the pit and fissure
C. Lateral surface of the pit and fissure
D. Bottom of the pit and fissure - Which of the following is cariostatic?
A. Selenium
B. Magnesium
C. Cadmium
D. Molybdenum
- Liquefaction foci of Miller is a histopathological observation in:
A. Cemental caries
B. Early enamel caries
C. Advanced enamel caries
D. Advanced dentinal caries
- Streptococcus mutans produces an adhesive polymer from sucrose, known as:
A. Levans
B. Lectins
C. Glucans
D. Polyfructans - The gelatinous deposit adherent on the tooth surface is called as:
A. Materia alba
B. Plaque
C. Calculus
D. All of the above - Most demineralized zone in enamel caries:
A. Translucent zone
B. Body of lession
C. Dark zone
D. Surface zone - Most used selective medium for streptococcus mutans is:
A. Mac conkey medium
B. Mitus salivarius bacitracin agar
C. Nutrient agar
D. Tellurite medium - The cells most frequently found in a granuloma are:
A. Mast cells
B. Giant cells
C. Lymphocytes
D. Neutrophilis - Tiny linear or arc-shaped bodied, amorphous, brittle and eosinophilic in reaction found in association with some odontogenic cysts, are called:
A. Civattle bodies
B. Russell bodies
C. Guarneri bodies
D. rushton bodies
- Low grade infection which leads to localized periosteal reaction is:
A. Garre’s osteomyelitis
B. Acute osteomyelitis
C. Condensing osteitis
D. Local alveolar osteitis - Cyst arising from rests of malassez is:
A. Dental cyst
B. Dentigerous cyst
C. Radicular cyst
D. Karato cyst - The tooth most commonly involved in chronic focal sclerosing osteomyelitis is:
A. Maxillary second molar
B. Maxillary third molar
C. Maxillary first molar
D. Mandibular first molar
- Three stages in progression of acute odontogenic infection are:
A. Periapical osteitis, cellulitis, abscess
B. Abscess, cellulitis, osteitis, Periapical
C. cellulitis, Abscess, Periapical, osteitis
D. Periapical osteitis, abscess, cellulitis, - The fascial spaces involved in ludwig’s angina are:
A. Unilateral – submandibular & sublingual spaces
B. Bilateral – submandibular & sublingual spaces
C. Unilateral – submandibular sublingual & submental spaces
D. Bilateral – submandibular sublingual & submental spaces
- The chronic osteomyelitis of the jaw consists of:
A. condensing osteitis
B. Sclerotic cemental mass
C. chronic diffuse sclerosing osteomyelitis
D. All of the above
- Which of the following is more prone to osteomyelitis:
A. Maxilla
B. zygoma
C. palatine bone
D. mandible
- Chronic periostitis in children is known as:
A. Cherubism
B. Garre’s osteomyelitis
C. Histiocytosis X
D. Tuberculous osteomyelitis - A diffuse spreading inflammatory lesion is due to bacterial enzyme:
A. Coagulase
B. Hyaluronidase
C. Peroxidase
D. Bradykinin - Best way to differentiate a periapical cyst and a perapical granuloma is:
A. Radiographically
B. Histologically
C. Clinically
D. None of the above - Which of the following differentiates between condensing osteitis and benign cementoblastoma?
A. Condensing osteitis is associated with vital teeth where as cementoblastoma is associated with non-vital teeth
B. In condensing osteitis radiopacity is attached to tooth where as in cementoblastoma it is not
C. Cementoblastoma is associated with vital tooth where as condensing osteitis is associated with non-vital tooth
D. In cementoblastoma radiopacity is attached to tooth where as in condensing osteitis it is not
- Constant feature associated with a radicular cyst:
A. An impacted tooth
B. A missing both
C. A non-vital tooth
D. An anomalous tooth - The caries of enamel surface leads to accentuation of:
A. Incremental lines of retzius
B. Perikymata
C. Imbrication lines of pickerill
D. Wickham’s striae - Odontogenic epithelium responsible for the formation of dental cyst is:
A. Cell rests of seirre
B. Enamel organ
C. Reduced enamel epithelium
D. Cell rests of malassez
- Which is not true of Ludwig’s angina?
A. Usually arises from an infected molar
B. involves submandibular space
C. May need emergency tracheostomy
D. None of the above
- Reversible pulpitis change to irreversible pulpitis primarily because of:
A. Vacular strangulation
B. Reduced host resistance
C. Invasion of microorganisms
D. An increase in microbial virulence - Pain due to acute irreversible pulpitis is:
A. Spontaneous
B. Sharp- shock like
C. Lasting for short time
D. Continuous - A person experiences throbbing pain at night. It is due to:
A. Acute Pulpal degeneration
B. Acute periodontal abscess
C. Chronic pulpitis
D. Cellulitis - An asymptomatic tooth has deep has deep caries on occlusal surface. Radiograph shows radiopaque mass at apex of the tooth: this mass is most likely to be:
A. Cementoma
B. Condensing Osteitis
C. Chronic apical periodontitis
D. Acute apical periodontitis - Acute osteomyelitis is most frequently caused by which of the following microorganisms?
A. Gonococcus
B. Enterococcus
C. Streptococcus
D. Staphylococcus
- Periapical cyst is usually preceded by:
A. Periapical granuloma
B. Periodontal abscess
C. Periapical abscess
D. All of the above - Chronic hyperplastic pulpitis is:
A. Necrotizing
B. Suppurative lesion
C. proliferation of a chronically inflamed pulp
D. Also called as phoenix abscess - A tooth with a 3 month history of pain, which was worse when hot liquid were in mouth. After extraction, the tooth was split open. The pulp chamber was completely filled with pus. A few remnants of pulp tissue were found in apical end. The condition is:
A. Acute partial pulpits
B. Acute total pulpits
C. Suppurative pulpitis
D. Strangulation of pulp - Focal sclerosing osteomyelitis is:
A. Due to excessive periosteal bone formation
B. An extremely painful condition
C. Due to low grade chronic infection
D. A common sequel following sequestrectomy - Osteomyelitis begins as an inflammation of:
A. Cortical bone
B. Periosteum
C. Medullary bone
D. periosteum and inner cortex - The earliest radiographic sign of osteomyelitis is:
A. Solitary or multiple small radiolucent areas
B. Increased granular radioopacity
C. Blurring of trabecular outlines
D. Formation of sequestrum appearing as radiopaque patches - The most common organism involved in a periapical abscess is:
A. Strep. Pyogens
B. Strep. viridans
C. β hemolytic stretococci
D. Non hemolytic stretococci - The main causative agent of Ludwig’s angina is:
A. Anaerobic streptococci
B. Aerobic streptococci
C. Staphylococci
D. Legionella infection - Which of the following periapical conditions is often associated with a vital pulp?
A. Apical cyst
B. Apical scar
C. Condensing osteitis
D. Chronic apical periodontitis - An acute apical abscess is usually a result of:
A. Periodontal pocket
B. Occlusal interference
C. Necrotic pulp
D. Chronic gingivitis - Organism involved in cellulitis is:
A. Strept. mutans
B. Strept. pyogenes
C. Pneumococci
D. klebsiella - Abscess formation is particularly characteristic of infections with which of the following microorganisms:
A. Viruses
B. Rickettsiae
C. Streptococci
D. Staphylococci
- Garre’s chronic non suppurative sclerosing osteomyelitis is characterized clinically by:
A. Endosteal bone formation
B. Periosteal bone formation
C. Resorption of medullary bone
D. Resorption of cortical bone - The earliest response of pulpitis is:
A. Cyst formation
B. Calcification
C. Hyalinization
D. Formation of dental granuloma - Dental cyst:
A. Occurs from the reduced enamel epithelium
B. Replaces the tooth to which it it attached
C. Is frequently seen with a missing tooth on the X-ray
D. Cystic lining of stratified squamous epithelium
- Most common cyst in oral region is:
A. Medial cyst
B. Radicular cyst
C. Follicular cyst
D. Naso labial cyst - Phelogmon is a:
A. Se*ually transmitted disease
B. Type of cellulites
C. Type of osteomyelitis
D. Venereal disease - All of the following statements about the typical features of a periapical granuloma are true EXCEPT:
A. It consists of proliferating granulation tissue
B. It can form only if the periapical bone is resorbed
C. It shows evidence of local antibody production
D. It results from immunologically mediated tissue damage
