Safe & Effective Pediatric Sedation Dentistry Pre-Course Quiz

The “split dam” technique used by Dr. Sanger involves:

Immobilization of the child during a dental procedure is always necessary, even without sedation.

The local anesthesia Dr. Sanger recommends you avoid using in pediatric patients is:

____% of children have intermittent non-obstructive snoring,

A three-year-old male child is in your office with his mother for an examination. Your staff brings the parent and child back to the exam area. You acknowledge the parent with child who is sitting on her lap. All is going well. You, mother, and child are having a conversation. You ask the child to let you look in his mouth and the child erupts in a screaming cry. What should you do first?

Interaction of the drug with receptors at the point of action is:

The choice of drugs for the desired actions in selective situations is:

During the “first pass,” midazolam will first be absorbed by the:

Adverse reactions from midazolam include all of the following except:

If the child has a paradoxical reaction to midazolam, you should give an additional dose.

Movement is an inappropriate response to dental procedure stimulation and sounds.

It is important to analyze the behavior and personality of the child in your office to assess the level of cooperation and ability to cope with dental care.

It is important to analyze the behavior and personality of the parent in your office to assess the level parenting control, decision making, and communication, that the parent exhibits.

The dentist must analyze himself/herself according to behavior and personality so to properly interact with both child and parent.

More parents should use corporal or physical punishment that was so effective generations ago for child behavior development.

The dental practitioner that treats children must realize that there is a triangle of interaction. This triangle involves:

A fourteen year old female comes to your office with her parent for a routine dental visit. Her mother remains in the reception room while the teenage comes back to the operatory by herself. She sits in the chair and immediately starts to cry. What should you do?

An eight year old male comes with his parents to your office for examination. His medical history reveals that he has a severe behavioral disorder with multiple personalities. He is under the care of a psychiatrist and on multiple medications with below average results. You are able to do a visual exam only without radiographs but still diagnosis caries on many of his teeth. How do you manage this child’ behavior?

Children ages 2-6 can cry in your office for the following reasons?

Adolescents are the toughest patients to treat in Dr. Sanger’s office.

Which of the following does not protect the pediatric airway during a dental procedure?