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The oral examination in Dentistry means dental checkup, and this is a process used by the dentists to carefully take a review on oral health. The oral examination involves typically the entire mouth, as a first-time visit or a regular 6-month check-up.  There are two main types of oral examination:   1. Extraoral examination  2. Intraoral examination  The extraoral examination involves the examination of the head and neck which is the integral part of oral examination to provide valuable information the overall assessment of possible oral diseases.  As a dentist, you can also examine the cervical lymph glands, by standing behind the individual and slightly flexing and bending the neck to the side so that the sternocleidomastoid muscle becomes relaxed and palpation and identification of any enlarged nodes will be easier.  The submandibular, submental and upper deep cervical lymph nodes are commonly involved in the extra oral examination.  The examinat...

  Prevention in dentistry: As a definition, means that an action of keeping away from an event or act to happen. We can also define it as an action to stop ill health before it begins. There are three types of prevention we can find, such as: - Primary prevention - Secondary prevention - Tertiary prevention Primary prevention: it means to take an action prior to a disease, which removes the possibility that a disease will even occur. it may be accomplished by measures designed to promote general health and well being or by specific protective measures. Secondary prevention: it is defined as an action that stops the progress of a disease and to prevent its complications. The individual is required to change, either to take some new action, or to cease an established action, or both, in order to lower the levels of risk. Tertiary prevention: it can be defined as all measures available to reduce or limit impairments and disabilities, minimizing suffering caused by existing d...