Question 148 · LDEK · Fissure sealing
Find the indications for pit and fissure sealing:
1) high risk of caries, regardless the time that has passed since tooth eruption;
2) high risk of caries, only in a short time after tooth eruption;
3) molar and premolar teeth in physically or mentally disabled patients;
4) fissures with hypoplasia;
5) teeth with point caries changes in a fissure.
The correct answer is:
2) high risk of caries, only in a short time after tooth eruption;
3) molar and premolar teeth in physically or mentally disabled patients;
4) fissures with hypoplasia;
5) teeth with point caries changes in a fissure.
The correct answer is:
- A. 1,3,4.
- B. 2,3,4.
- C. 2,3,4,5.
- D. 1,3.
- E. 2,3,5.
Hint
Ask whether the indication for sealing expires with time after eruption, and what a cavitated fissure lesion needs instead.
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