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STATUTORY EXAMINATUON@ƒp[ƒg‚PŽŽŒ±–â‘è
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St Bartholomew's & the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry
(Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London)
GENERAL DENTAL COUNCIL STATUTORY EXAMINATUON
Part I
Pathology, Microbiology, General Medicine and Surgery
Monday 30th November 1998
9.30°12.30pm
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Candidates are required to answer 4 out of 5 questions. All questions carry equal marks.
Please answer each question in a separate answer book.
1. Describe the feature and the management of the following in the dental surgery:
a) Anaphylaxis
b) Hypoglycaemia
c) Epileptic (grand mal) fit
2. What are the causes of jaundice? What investigations may assist in establishing the diagnosis? What precautions should be taken prior to dental treatment in a jaundiced patient?
3. Compare and contrast the aetiology, pathology and clinical presentation of:
a) arterial thrombo°embolism and b) venous thrombo°embolism.
4. What is anaemia? How is it classified? What are the signs and symptoms of anaemia? What investigations might assist in the diagnosis and management of anaemia?
5. How may infective endocarditis be precipitated by a dental extraction? Which micro°organisms are most likely to be involoved? List the groups of patients most likely to be at risk and explain how they may be protected when undergoing dental treatment.
opment of a tooth from the bud stage up until the process of eruption has started.
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Part I
Dental Anatomy and Physiology
General Anatomy and Physiology
Monday 30th NOvember 1998
1.30°4.30 pm
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Candidates are required to answer 4 out of 5 questions. All questions carry equal marks.
Please answer each question in a separate answer book.
1. Give an account of the anatomical path taken by nerve impulses arising from the pulp of a maxillary incisor tooth to the central nervous system.
2. Write short notes on four of the following:
a) the mental nerve
b) the medial pterygoid muscle
c) the facial vein
d) the function of the hyoid bone
e) submandibular lymph nodes.
3. Discuss the mechanisms which control blood pressure. Why do we sometimes feel faint when we stand up rapidly and how do these machanisms help to overcome this problem?
4. Give an account of the roles of the pons and medulla in controlling breathing and explain how blood gas levels affect the speed and depth of breathing.
5. Describe the development of a tooth from the bud stage up until the process of eruption has started.
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STATUTORY EXAMINATUON@ƒp[ƒg‚QŽŽŒ±–â‘è
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THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY
General Dental Council Statutory Examination (Part II)
Written Paper 1
30th March 1999 9.30a.m.°12.30p.m.
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Each question to be answered in a separate book
Please write your CANDIDATE NUMBER ONLY on the front of each answer book.
All candidates MUST answer qustions 1 and 2
1. How should general dental practioners comply with their statutory responsibilities in relation to the lonising Radiation(s) Regulations 1985 and 1988.
2. Discuss the relative advantages and disadvantages of using:
a) General Anaesthesia
b) Sedation techniques
in dentistry. Describe the methods used for monitoring the sedated patients.
All candidates should attempt TWO of the remaining three qustions
3. Outline the management, including the investigation of possible causes, of a patient who complains of bleeding gums.
4. Deascribe the clinical features of recurrent aphthous stomatitis (recurrent aphthous ulceration). Discuss the investigation and management of this condition.
5. A young adult patient attends your surgery complaining of pain, trismus and facial swelling associated with a partially erupted lower third molar. Discuss the management of this case.
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General Dental Council Statutory Examination (Part II)
Written Paper 2
30th March 1999 1.30 p.m.°4.30p.m.
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Each question to be answered in a separate book
Please write your CANDIDATE NUMBER ONLY on the front of each answer book.
All candidates MUST answer qustion 1
1. A young adult patients required a tooth extraction and requests that it be undertaken under general anaethesia. Discuss the General Dental Council's advice to dental practionaers regarding general anaesthesia and give an account of the particular duties and responsibilities of the dentists who may be involved in addressing this patient's request.
All candidates should attempt THREE of the remaining four questions
2. An MOD amalgam restoration has fractured. Discuss your investigation and management of the case.
3. Discuss the use of fluoride supplementation in pre°school children.
4. A healthy but nervous sixteen year old girl attends your practice requsting that her unsightly front teeth be crowned. Her upper incisors have gross caries and there is also untreated caries in her posterior teeth. She has generalised chronic marginal gingivitis. What would be the aims of your treatment and how would your attempt to achieve these aims.
5. Describe and discuss the indications for the various major connectors that may be used for a cobalt°chromium based lower removable partial denture.
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