Afghanistan Dental Exit Exam case studies
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The Afghanistan Dental Exit Examination is the assessment that dental graduates sit before they can register and practise as a dentist in Afghanistan. It is intended for students finishing a recognised dental degree and for graduates returning to the workforce, and it is administered by the national dental and medical regulatory authorities rather than by any single university. The Afghanistan Dental Exit Exam case studies are 5 cases and about 2,796 words.
1Swelling After Crown Seating in a Medically Complex Patient
A 46-year-old man attends a district clinic 3 days after a full-coverage crown was cemented on the upper right first molar. He reports throbbing pain that began the evening of cementation, now waking him at night and worsened by lying down and by hot fluids; cold gives only brief relief.
606 words, about 3 min2Bleeding After Extraction in a Patient on Anticoagulants
A 62-year-old woman has an emergency extraction of a grossly carious, mobile lower left second molar at a rural clinic. Her history includes atrial fibrillation, for which she takes warfarin, and hypertension on amlodipine.
530 words, about 3 min3A Child with a Traumatized Immature Incisor
An 8-year-old boy is brought to the clinic 4 hours after falling from a bicycle. His upper right central incisor is extruded and mobile, with bleeding from the gingival sulcus; the upper left central incisor is intact and non-mobile.
492 words, about 2 min4A Denture That No Longer Fits
A 71-year-old woman presents with a 12-year-old maxillary complete denture that she says 'moves when I eat' and 'cuts' her upper gum. She has worn it continuously, day and night, since it was made and has not seen a dentist in 8 years.
585 words, about 3 min5A High-Caries-Risk Teenager in a Low-Resource School Program
You are asked to plan a prevention program for a secondary school of 600 students in a district with no fluoridated water supply. A screening of 120 students finds a mean DMFT of 4.8, with most decay concentrated in about 25% of students; several have untreated cavitated lesions and one reports pain on chewing.
583 words, about 3 min