Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka

Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka
B.D.S Degree Examination – 07-Sep-2022

III Year (RS2 Only)
IV Year (OS, RS & RS3 Only)
Time: Three Hours Max. Marks: 70 Marks
PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY

Q.P. CODE: 1196
Your answers should be specific to the questions asked.
Draw neat, labeled diagrams wherever necessary.
LONG ESSAYS 2 x 10 = 20 Marks

1. Define prevention. Discuss the levels of prevention for oral cancer at individual, community and
professional level.
2. Define sample. Classify and explain various types of Sampling.
SHORT ESSAYS 8 x 5 = 40 Marks

3. Development and implementation of Tattle tooth program.
4. Limitations of DMFT index.
5. Tools of Dental Public Health.
6. Elements of Primary Health Care.
7. Compare close panel v/s open panel.
8. Describe caries activity tests.
9. Classify Tooth brushing techniques. Write the detail about modified Bass method.
10. Types of Pathfinder surveys.
SHORT ANSWERS 5 x 2 = 10 Marks

11. Define Loss of head.
12. Difference between Coinsurance and deductible.
13. Functions of Dental Laboratory Technician.
14. Define Range.
15. Define Endemic and Epidemic.
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B.D.S Degree Examination – 21-Aug-2023
III Year (RS2 Only)

Q.P. CODE: 1196

1. Describe the mechanism of action of fluorides. Add a note on different methods of systemic
fluoridation.
2. Define survey. Explain in detail steps in survey.

3. Discuss categories of biomedical waste disposal.
4. Explain the principles of primary health care.
5. Illustrate various methods of presentation of data.
6. Classify dental payment plans. Explain dental prepayment plans.
7. Discuss barriers in health education.
8. Explain procedural steps in Dental Public Health.
9. Discuss ideal requirements of an Index.
10. Explain steps in application of Pit and Fissure sealants.

11. Define Bias.
12. Enumerate tests of significance.
13. List any two requirements of safe and wholesome water.
14. Draw CPI probe and label its parts.
15. Enumerate components of spectrum of Health.
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B.D.S Degree Examination – 08-Apr-2024
III Year (RS2 Only)

Q.P. CODE: 1196

1. Define epidemiology. Discuss in detail about the host, agent and environmental factors in dental
caries.
2. Define plan. Explain the steps of a planning cycle for the prevention of oral cancer in rural
population.

3. Steps in Rapid sand filtration.
4. Compare Medicare v/s Medicaid.
5. Caries Activity test.
6. Incineration.
7. Primary prevention for malocclusion.
8. Consumer protection act.
9. Principles of ethics.
10. Difference between private practice and Public Health Dentistry.

11. Use of toluidine blue.
12. Potable water.
13. Community fluorosis Index.
14. Elements of Informed consent.
15. Pie chart.
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B.D.S Degree Examination – 11-Feb-2023
III Year (RS2 Only)

Q.P. CODE: 1196

1. Define research. Describe various methods of data presentation in research.
2. Classify fluorides used in dentistry. Describe in detail the mechanism of action of fluorides.

3. Social stratification.
4. Functions of expanded function dental auxiliary.
5. Delta dental plan.
6. Measures of morbidity.
7. Antibacterial properties of saliva.
8. Comprehensive dental care.
9. Community Periodontal Index of Treatment Needs (CPITN).
10. Bias.

11. Types of evaluation.
12. Incidence and prevalence.
13. Plaque disclosing solutions.
14. spool method of flossing.
15. Didactic method of health education.
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B.D.S Degree Examination – 28-Mar-2022
III Year (RS2 Only)

Q.P. CODE: 1196

1. Define Health Education. Write in detail principles of health education.
2. Discuss the levels of prevention Discuss the measures taken at the primary level for prevention of
Dental Caries.

3. Discuss the steps in planning.
4. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of DMFT index.
5. Discuss the characteristics of Normal Curve.
6. Discuss index age groups in Pathfinder Survey.
7. Discuss the functions of Dental Council of India.
8. Discuss salient features of Consumer Protection Act.
9. Discuss the functions of School Dental Nurse.
10. Discuss the Uses of epidemiology.

11. Define Epidemic and endemic.
12. Explain briefly Iceberg phenomenon.
13. Explain briefly purpose of Blinding.
14. Enumerate the chemicals used in Nalgonda technique.
15. List fluorides used in dentifrice.
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IV B.D.S Degree Examination – June 2012
PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY (RS3)
Your answers should be specific to the questions asked
Draw neat, labeled diagrams wherever necessary
LONG ESSAY 2X10 = 20 Marks
1. Define the Defluoridation of water. Describe the procedure of water defluoridation by the Nalgonda
technique.
2. Define Epidemiology. Write in detail steps of descriptive epidemiology with an example.
SHORT ESSAYS 8X5=40 Marks
3. Define Biostatistics and write a note on the presentation of data
4. Carnes activity tests
5. Dean's 21 cities study
6. Oral hygiene aids
7. Define planning. Explain in detail the stages of planning
8. Consumer Protection Act |CPA|
9. Socoecononic Status and health
10. Acute Fluoride toxicity
SHORT ANSWERS (5X2=10 Marks)
11. Differences between case-control & cohort studies
12. Iceberg phenomenon
13. Schnutzdccke layer
14. Functions of Indian Dental Association
15. Berksunian bias

IV B.D.S Degree Examination – JULY- 2013
1. Define survey. Explain in detail the steps in a survey.
2. Define Health Education. Write in detail about principles of health education
3. Define Biostatistics. Write about methods of presentation of data
4. Explain levels of prevention for dental caries
5. Atraumatic Restorative Treatment
6. WHO index age groups
7. Incidence and prevalence
8. Smoked and Smokeless tobacco in India
9. Stephen's curve?
10. Dentist Act [India] Amendment 1993
11. Consent
12. Universal Precautions
13. Pincushion effect
14. Usual Customary Reasonable fees
15. Hopewood House Study

IV B.D.S Degree Examination – DECEMBER- 2013
1. Define health edu1cation and describe Its objectives and principles in detail.
2. What is the mechanism of action of fluoride in caries reduction? Discuss various professionally applied
fluoride delivery methods in detail.
3. Dental Council of India
4. Descriptive epidemiology
5. Measures of dispersion
6. Pathfinder survey
7. Describe various mechanical methods of plaque control.
8. Levels of prevention
9. School dental nurse
10. Atraumatic restorative treatment
11. Comprehension in health education
12. Four-handed dentistry
13. Shoe leather survey
14. Bimodality
15. Delta dental plans

IV B.D.S Degree Examination – JUNE/JULY- 2014
1. Define Primary Health Care. Describe in detail the various Principles of Primary Health care.
2. Define Dental Auxiliaries. Describe in detail the various types of Non-operating type or Dental
Auxiliaries.
3. Changing concepts of Public Health
4. Uses of Epidemiology
5. Types of Data
6. Disclosing agents
7. Role of Chlorination in Purification of Water
8. Space maintainers
9. Screening.
10. Biomedical Waste Disposal
11. Blinding
12. Triclosan.
13. Functions of Dental Council of India
14. Odd's Ratio
15. Physiological Barrier in Health Education

1. Describe in detail the various methods of Purification of Water on a large scale.
2. Define Epidemiology. Describe in detail the various steps in a Descriptive Epidemiological study.
3. Difference between Public Health and Private Practice
4. Caries mechanism of action of Fluorides
5. Chemical Plaque Control Agents
6. Types of Examination in Survey
7. Tattle Tooth School Dental Health Program
8. Occupational Hazards in Dentistry
9. Screening tests for Oral Cancer
10. Expanded Functional Dental Auxiliaries
11. Capitation Plans
12. Informed Consent
13. Mode
14. Incidence
15. World Health Day

1. Classify the various delivery methods of Fluorides in Dentistry. Describe in detail the various methods
of professionally applied Topical Fluoride delivery systems.
2. Describe in detail the various modalities of Payments in the Dental Care delivery system.
3. Principles of Primary Health Care
4. Measures of Central Tendency in Biostatistics
5. Dental Floss
6. Methods of Evaluation
7. Visual aids in Health Education
8. Sociology and Oral Health
9. Caries vaccine
10. Write briefly on household purification of water
11. Backwashing
12. compost
13. American Dental Association specification for Toothbrushes
14. Recall Bias
15. Definition of Health according to the World Health Organization

1. Define surveying. How will you estimate the prevalence of dental caries among school children in your
area?
2. What is potable water? Explain the steps involved in the purification of water on a Large Scale.
3. Primary prevention procedures for dental caries
4. Disposal of solid wastes
5. Host Factors in the Epidemiology of periodontal diseases.
6. CPI index
7. Write briefly on Principles of health education
8. Methods of Defluoridation of water
9. Dental professional ethics
10. Pit and fissure sealants
11. Tools of dental public health
12. Steps in conducting a randomized controlled trial
13. Quarantine
14. Importance of dental camps
15. Expanded Function Dental Auxiliary

1. Define Health Education. Describe in detail the Principles of Health Education.
2. Compare Cohort and Case-Control Studies with examples.
3. Principles of Primary Health Care
4. Cultural effects in Oral Health and Disease
5. Payments in Dental Care practice
6. Host factors in Dental Caries Occurrence
7. steps in Survey
8. Ethical principles in Dental practice.
9. National Health Programmes in India.
10. Professionally applied Topical Fluorides
11. World Health Organization
12. Oral manifestation of AIDS
13. Chi-Square Test
14. Summative Evaluation
15. Concepts of Health

1. What is epidemiology? Classify different types of epidemiological investigations and describe

analytical epidemiology in detail.
2. What is an index? Give broad classification of indices used for dental epidemiological investigation
and state the ideal requirements of an index
3. Write a short note on dental payment plans.
4. Sampling techniques
5. IDA
6. Short note on large scale purification of water
7. Write a short note on the professional topical application of fluorides.
8. Operating auxiliaries
9. Write a note on local risk factors in periodontal disease.
10. Barriers in communication
11. Advantages of ART
12. Primary prevention
13. Importance of Dental camps
14. Incidence
15. Cariogram
1. What is data? Give its type and describe the various ways of presentation of data.
2. Describe the steps in surveying and write in detail about the pathfinder survey.
3. Disclosing agent
4. Write in brief on pit and fissure sealants.
5. WHO
6. Nalgonda technique
7. Ideal requisites of an index
8. Educational aids used in health education
9. Disposal of waste.
10. Write briefly on Dental payment plans
11. Iceberg of disease
12. Denturism
13. Odds ratio
14. Name the various ethical principles
15. Fluoride varnish

1. Why Sampling is carried out in Research? Write in detail about different Sampling methodologies for
example.
2. What are the mechanism of action of Fluorides on Dental Caries? Briefly explain Topical Fluorides
used to Prevent Dental Caries in Community.
3. Descriptive Epidemiological method
4. Clinical Dentistry v/s Public Health approaches
5. National Health Programs of India
6. Oral Hygiene Aids
7. Disposal of solid waste
8. Pit and Fissure Sealants
9. Diet and Dental Caries Studies
10. Indicators for Health
11. Define Primary health care
12. Third-party payments for Dental Care
13. Didactic method of Health Education.
14. Enumerate the Oral Hygiene Indices
15. Steps in Planning

1. Classify epidemiological methods. Discuss in detail the case-control study.
2. Classify Topical Fluorides. Discuss in detail various topical fluorides In prevention of Dental caries.
3. Health indicators
4. Barriers in health education
5. Vipeholm study
6. Pathfinder survey
7. Sensitivity and Specificity
8. Measures of Central Tendency
9. CPITN index
10. Rapid sand filtration
11. Group insurance
12. Define dental public health.
13. Risk factors
14. Monitoring and surveillance
15. Xylitol
1. Classify Dental Auxiliaries. Discuss in detail the different types of auxiliaries in Dentistry.
2. Classify Sampling methods. Discuss in detail various sampling methods in Dental Research.
3. Brudevold's solution
4. Discuss Principles of Ethics.
5. Categories of Hospital Waste
6. Evaluation
7. Uses of epidemiology
8. Measures of Dispersion
9. Dental Insurance
10. Small Scale Purification of Water
11. Types of examination
12. Define Primary Health Care
13. Rate and Ratio
14. Blinding
15. Specificity
1. Define epidemiology and discuss it in a detailed cohort study with relevant examples.
2. Define health education and discuss principles of health education. Enlist health education AIDS
3. Knutson's Technique
4. Discuss Principles of Primary Health Care
5. Discuss prevalence and incidence.
6. Changing concept of Public Health
7. Incremental Dental Care.
8. Normal Distribution Curve.
9. 90th percentile.
10. Chlorination.
11. Snowball sampling.
12. Define Public Health.
13. Incineration.
14. Cold Chain.
15. Sensitivity.
IV B.D.S Degree Examination – Aril-2021
1. Classify health care delivery system. Write in detail about primary level care in India.
2. Define pit and fissure sealant. Classify pit and fissure sealants. Discuss in detail technique in sealant
placement.
SHORT ESSAYS.
3. Discuss tests of significance.
4. Discuss iceberg phenomenon.
5. Discuss determinants of Health.
6. Discuss tooth brushing methods .
7. Discuss Medicare and Medicaid program.
8. Discuss the conclusions of vipeholm studies.
9. Discuss difference between rapid and slow sand filters.
10. Discuss differences between systemic and topical fluorides.
SHORT ANSWERS.
11. Enumerate types of Blinding.
12. Enumerate any two elements of primary health care.
13. Enumerate any two advantages of urban dental practice.
14. Enumerate principles of Atraumatic Restorative treatment .
15. Enumerate any two uses of caries activity test for clinicians.
IV B.D.S Degree Examination – NOVEMBER-2020
1. Define epidemiology. Discuss host factors in the epidemiology of Dental Caries and Periodontal
disease.
2. Define Dental Auxiliaries. Describe in detail the various types of Operating types of Dental Auxiliaries.
3. Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART).
4. Oral Hygiene Index - Simplified (OHI-S).
5. Ethical principles.
6. Defluoridation.
7. Sampling methods.
8. Health indicators.
9. Tobacco cessation counseling.
10. Steps in Evaluation.
11. Dentist's Act.
12. UCR fees.
13. Sugar Substitutes.
14. Comprehensive Dental Care.
15. Index Age Groups.

IV B.D.S Degree Examination – FEB 2021
1.classify various plaque control measures. Explain the mechanism of action of chlorhexidine.
2. Write in detail the steps, advantage and disadvantage of conducting a case control investigations.
3. Uses or Migration studies.
4. Controlled tipping.
5. Compare and contrast Health education vs propaganda.
6. Comprehensive health care.
7. 90⁰ percentile.
8. Index teeth in community periodontal index.
9. Classify defluoridation methods. Write in detail about Nalgonda technique.
10. Barriers to health education.
11. Discuss equitable distribution.
12. Types of data collection.
13. Types of random sampling.
14. Principles of primary health care.
15. Functions of world health organization.

IV B.D.S Degree Examination – DEC 2021
1. Define health education. Write in detail about different methods of health education.
2. Define water fluoridation. Discuss history of water fluoridation and add a note on toxicity of fluorides.
3. Compare and contrast typical vs systemic fluorides.
4. Enumerate the types of CPITN probes. Add a note on probing methods.
5. Classify sampling methods. Discuss about random sampling methods.
6. Changing concepts in health.
7. Define primary health care. Discuss the principles of primary health care.
8. Enumerate levels of prevention. Discuss about primary level prevention for dental caries.
9. Functions of school dental nurse New Zealand type.
10. Mechanism of payments for dental care.
11. Calculations of odds radios.
12. Components of physical quality of life index.
13. Safe and wholesome water.
14. Properties of Gaussian distribution.
15. Principles of Atraumatic Restorative Treatment.

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B.D.S Degree Examination – 07-Sep-2022

Time: Three Hours Max. Marks: 70 Marks

PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY

LONG ESSAYS 2 x 10 = 20 Marks

SHORT ESSAYS 8 x 5 = 40 Marks

SHORT ANSWERS 5 x 2 = 10 Marks

Time: Three Hours Max. Marks: 70 Marks

PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY

LONG ESSAYS 2 x 10 = 20 Marks

SHORT ESSAYS 8 x 5 = 40 Marks

SHORT ANSWERS 5 x 2 = 10 Marks

Time: Three Hours Max. Marks: 70 Marks

PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY

LONG ESSAYS 2 x 10 = 20 Marks

SHORT ESSAYS 8 x 5 = 40 Marks

SHORT ANSWERS 5 x 2 = 10 Marks

Time: Three Hours Max. Marks: 70 Marks

PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY

LONG ESSAYS 2 x 10 = 20 Marks

SHORT ESSAYS 8 x 5 = 40 Marks

SHORT ANSWERS 5 x 2 = 10 Marks

Time: Three Hours Max. Marks: 70 Marks

PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY

LONG ESSAYS 2 x 10 = 20 Marks

SHORT ESSAYS 8 x 5 = 40 Marks

SHORT ANSWERS 5 x 2 = 10 Marks

PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY (RS3)

Your answers should be specific to the questions asked

Draw neat, labeled diagrams wherever necessary

LONG ESSAY 2X10 = 20 Marks

2. Define Epidemiology. Write in detail steps of descriptive epidemiology with an example.

SHORT ESSAYS 8X5=40 Marks

3. Define Biostatistics and write a note on the presentation of data

4. Carnes activity tests

5. Dean's 21 cities study

6. Oral hygiene aids

7. Define planning. Explain in detail the stages of planning

8. Consumer Protection Act |CPA|

9. Socoecononic Status and health

10. Acute Fluoride toxicity

SHORT ANSWERS (5X2=10 Marks)

11. Differences between case-control & cohort studies

12. Iceberg phenomenon

13. Schnutzdccke layer

14. Functions of Indian Dental Association

15. Berksunian bias

PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY (RS3)

Your answers should be specific to the questions asked

Draw neat, labeled diagrams wherever necessary

LONG ESSAY 2X10 = 20 Marks

1. Define survey. Explain in detail the steps in a survey.

2. Define Health Education. Write in detail about principles of health education

SHORT ESSAYS 8X5=40 Marks

3. Define Biostatistics. Write about methods of presentation of data

4. Explain levels of prevention for dental caries

5. Atraumatic Restorative Treatment

6. WHO index age groups

7. Incidence and prevalence

8. Smoked and Smokeless tobacco in India

10. Dentist Act [India] Amendment 1993

SHORT ANSWERS (5X2=10 Marks)

12. Universal Precautions