Israel Dental Licensing case studies
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The Israeli dental licensing examination (הבחינה הממשלתית לרישוי רפואת שיניים) is the state assessment administered under the Ministry of Health for dentists who hold a dental degree from outside Israel and wish to obtain an Israeli license to practise. It is a knowledge examination that tests whether a candidate can apply the standard of care expected of a dentist working in Israel across the full breadth of clinical dentistry, from surgery and endodontics through periodontology, orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, oral medicine and imaging, to public health, pharmacology and emergency management. The Israel Dental Licensing case studies are 5 cases and about 4,177 words.
1Non-restorable mandibular molar in a long-term oral bisphosphonate user
A 71-year-old woman is referred to your clinic for extraction of tooth 46. The tooth has a 12-year-old root canal filling, a fractured mesio-occlusal cusp, recurrent caries under a metal-ceramic crown, and a 6 mm asymptomatic apical radiolucency.
834 words, about 4 min2Deep caries with a pinpoint exposure in a bruxing adult molar
A 44-year-old man presents with discomfort in tooth 36 on chewing and a 6-day history of pain provoked by cold drinks that lingers about 10 seconds after the stimulus is removed. There has been no spontaneous or nocturnal pain, no swelling, and no tenderness to percussion.
854 words, about 4 min3Subgingival caries margin on a root-filled first molar: crown lengthening, forced eruption or extraction
A 55-year-old woman is referred for a crown on tooth 16. The tooth had root canal treatment 8 years ago and was never restored with a post; it now has a mesial caries lesion whose deepest point lies 2 mm apical to the bone crest.
866 words, about 4 min4Avulsion of an immature maxillary central incisor with 20 minutes of dry time
A 9-year-old boy is brought to the emergency clinic 50 minutes after falling from his bicycle. His upper right central incisor (tooth 11) was completely avulsed.
771 words, about 4 min5Collapse during an extraction in a fasting diabetic patient on a sulfonylurea
A 63-year-old man attends at 09:30 for extraction of tooth 26. His history includes hypertension on amlodipine 10 mg, type 2 diabetes treated with metformin 1 g twice daily and gliclazide 80 mg twice daily, and hyperlipidaemia on atorvastatin.
852 words, about 4 min