Question 131 · LDEK · Odontogenic infections
Indicate true statements concerning sanitation of the oral cavity:
1) sanitation of the oral cavity is a complex of treatment-and-prophylactic measures aimed at removing calculus, fractured teeth and filling carious cavities;
2) radical removal of all odontogenic inflammatory foci in patients with, or suspected of, focal diseases; it is known as absolute sanitation;
3) primary inflammatory focus is defined as a pathological inflammatory lesion, usually acute, which constitutes a source of bacterial, toxic, allergic or nervous influence, causing focal symptoms and sustaining pathological changes in distant organs;
4) primary focal infections are periapical, such as radicular cysts or periapical granuloma;
5) antibiotic prophylaxis is essential for performing absolute sanitation.
The correct answer is:
2) radical removal of all odontogenic inflammatory foci in patients with, or suspected of, focal diseases; it is known as absolute sanitation;
3) primary inflammatory focus is defined as a pathological inflammatory lesion, usually acute, which constitutes a source of bacterial, toxic, allergic or nervous influence, causing focal symptoms and sustaining pathological changes in distant organs;
4) primary focal infections are periapical, such as radicular cysts or periapical granuloma;
5) antibiotic prophylaxis is essential for performing absolute sanitation.
The correct answer is:
- A. all the above.
- B. 1,2,3,5.
- C. 2,3,4.
- D. 1,2,5.
- E. 3,4,5.
Hint
Check whether a primary focus is typically acute or chronic, and whether an epithelium-lined cyst counts as a first-order focus.
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