• 150 questions single best answers
• 3 hours
• Not negatively marked
• Pass mark is different every year

Key topics
Orthodontics:

• IOTN-DHC Score
• Ceph analysis – values
• Angles’s classification
• Appliances and interceptive orthodontics
• Treatment planning
• Radiographs esp to locate canines (B/P)
• IOTN of submerged l/le, impacted canine or premolars

Periodontology

• Classification and clinical presentation
• BPE (lots of questions)
• Miller’s grades of mobility
• Periodontal Probes (markings and what they indicate, types of probes)
• Radiography (what radiographs to take for example BPE scores)
• Periodontal treatment options (including antimicrobial prescribing)

Restorative dentistry

• Reversible and irreversible pulpitis and signs and symptoms
• Eruption dates and sequences
• Different crowns and bridges
• Fluorides (See Delivery Better Oral Health document)
• Dental materials and percentages and various types of alloys (amalgam phases and content, composites – types, fillers, indications, impression materials)
• Non carious tooth loss and treatment
• Dental trauma and splinting (See Dental Trauma Guide)
• Missing lateral incisors
• Posts and systems

Medical emergencies

• Asthma
• Angina
• Hypoglycemia
• Signs and symptoms
• Drug box
• Oxygen cylinder (sizes) – See BOC website
• Anaphylaxis
• Drug regime
• Chest compression and difference in various scenarios

Pharmacology

• FGDP booklet
• BNF
• Antibiotics and antivirals
• Antifungals
• Drug interactions
• Local anaesthesia (onset, half life, how eliminated)
• Sedatives and hypnotics
• Ab prophylaxis and current guidelines
• Questions about cross matching drugs to cases like migraine, trigeminal neuralgia, shingles etc.

Radiology

• FGDP booklet
• Eric Whaites book
• Inidcations of radiographs
• When to take horizontal and vertical bitewings
• RPA+RPS
• Nurses and radiology
• Radiographic badges
• NRPB and current body and role
• Dosage
• OPG/CBCT and other Xray exposure
• UK normal background radiation
• In case of accidental exposure
• How long to keep records
• How to report

Prosthodontics

• Designing
• Impression materials
• Complete denture complains
• Implants
• Cast partial dentures

Oral surgery & medicine

• Cysts-radicular cysts
• Histology of cysts
• Dry socket
• Pericoronitis
• Pre-malignancy – predisposing factors
• Orofacial pain and types and treatment
• Herpes
• Sjogrens syndrome
• Candidiasis
• Lichen planus
• Signs and symptoms,, diagnosis and management

Other topics

• Health promotion
• Disease prevention
• Law and Ethics
• Consent for underage children, if they walk in by themselves, in the case of emergency
• Management of patients with dementia including consent
• Staff injuries: who to inform, what to do, within how many days (HSE or ACAS website)
• Behavioural management
• Statistics – clinical trials, mean median mode, p value, students t test, chi squared test, nominal versus ordinal data
• Medically compromised patients
• Infection control
• Clinical waste management
• Hazardous wastes
• Complaints
• Problems with dentures: patient cannot pronounce certain sounds
• Practice meetings
• Clinical governance
• Audit
• HIV and other viral infections
• Standards in dentistry

Example questions:

1. Health and safety legislation requires that a dental practice categorise and dispose waste correctly. Which of the following are examples of special waste…(Answer: blood contaminated waste, including dressings and sharps)
2. A patient with trimus and crepitus of both TMJs requires extensive indirect restorations and reorganisation of the occlusion. Which of these splints would you consider most appropriate? (Answer: is anterior repositioning splint)
3. After oral administration of 3g amoxicillin, a patient collapses in reception. Flushed and wheezing. First line of action? (Answer: Administer 0.5 ml 1:1000 adrenaline intramuscularly)
4. Which of the following is the most likely to contribute to successful molar endodontics? (Answer: Thorough cleaning using rubber dam throughout the procedure)
5. A 14 year old female patient attends in a distressed state with an acute periapical abscess and gross facial swelling associated with a heavily filled UL1. She is unaccompanied by an adult. What should your first action be? (Answer: Try to ascertain whether she is able to give legal consent)
6. Patients on Oral bisphosphonates…(Answer: Most probably have metastatic bone disease or osteoporosis)
7. A 15 year old female patient has an 8mm overjet and bilaterally impacted canines…(A: The patient would be placed in the Index of Ortho need 5)

Recent questions (last 2 diets):

• Bleeding – INR, XLA, aspirin, punch biopsy, soft tissue tear
• Paediatric behaviour management – modelling, desensitisation
• Radiolucency – 20 mm apex, 5 mm apex, inferior to to IAN, midline palate, unerupted crown
• Fluoride – 3 year old, 6 year old, 10 year old, 14 year old, 70 year old
• LA – pregnant, latex and bisulphate allergy, pain relief for 8xla
• Topical – vital pulpotomy
• Rads – UE 3, perio code 3, perio code 4, edentulous in one arch
• Medical emergencies – asthma, angina, diabetes, anaphylaxis, epilepsy
• Spread of infection – upper 3, upper 2, lower 1, distoangular 8, lower 6
• Hypodontia causes
• Facial pain and headaches
• Appropriate bridges
• What different parts of CoCr denture
• Suturing resorbing time viacryl rapide
• Consent 20 y old Downs syndrome
• Flap for lower 5
• 8s Nice guidelines
• Appropriate medication for vital pulpotomy
• What causes composite retardation on setting
• Radiographic faults and standards
• 12 year old with low risk, what is radiographic interval
• Max nitrogen concentration in bottle/air container
• Max temperature to wash instruments in
• Appropriate management for destroying prions in used endo instruments
• Wetting component in dentine priming agent
• Splinting time for lateral luxation

For further information regarding MJDF courses run by the Faculty, please visit:
http://www.fgdpwm.com/simplifying-mjdf
http://www.fgdp.org.uk/event/fgdp-event/revision-for-mjdf-part-2.ashx

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