This chapter is on “Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and viva in Public Health Dentistry”. This book presents facts about Public Health Dentistry topics in an objective and comprehensive manner. Efforts have been taken for scientific construction and systematic presentations. Both MCQs and viva points are written chapter wise looking into the finer details and for the ease of student’s comprehension. MCQs have high reliability, validity and manageability. They are a precise way of assessing students’ knowledge. With over 1500 questions trying to cover the entire syllabus of Public Health Dentistry, this book aims to provide students the subject in a nutshell. Viva points helps students to brush up the subject at a glance and to easily memorize theoretical concepts and fundamentals. It helps in providing an insight to the subject and to make it more interesting. The concepts of public health dentistry are of high importance in resolving health problems at mass level. It includes such varied topics like epidemiology, sociology, anthropology, health psychology, health administration, health economics, behavioral sciences, biostatistics, environment and health in addition to clinical dentistry in its folds.

Contents

Chapter 1 History of Public Health
Chapter 2 General Epidemiology and Screening
Chapter 3 Health Education
Chapter 4 Health Care of the Community
Chapter 5 International Health
Chapter 6 Ethics
Chapter 7 Indian Dental Association and Dental Council of India
Chapter 8 Consumer Protection Act
Chapter 9 Atraumatic Restorative Technique
Chapter 10 Pit and Fissure Sealants
Chapter 11 Planning and Evaluation
Chapter 12 Concepts of Health and Disease
Chapter 13 Environment and Health
Chapter 14 Nutrition and Health
Chapter 15 Finance in Dentistry
Chapter 16 Dental Auxillaries
Chapter 17 Survey Procedures
Chapter 18 Plaque Control
Chapter 19 Caries Vaccine
Chapter 20 School Dental Health Programs
Chapter 21 Biostatistics
Chapter 22 Fluorides in Dentistry
Chapter 23 Epidemiology of Dental Caries
Chapter 24 Epidemiology of Periodontal Disease
Chapter 25 Epidemiology of Oral Cancer
Chapter 26 Indices in Dentistry
Chapter 27 Disaster Management
Chapter 28 Evidence Based Dentistry
Chapter 29 Oral Health Promotion
Chapter 30 Critical Appraisal of Literature
Chapter 31 Child Psychology and Behaviour management
Chapter 32 Social Sciences
Chapter 33 Minimal Intervention Dentistry
Chapter 34 Occupational Hazards
Chapter 35 National Oral Health Policy
Chapter 36 Genetics and Health
Chapter 37 Case history and treatment Planning
Chapter 38 Epidemiology of Malocclusion
Chapter 39 Practice Management
Chapter 40 Infection Control