RDA Practice Exam #1 Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2025) Direct Supervision refers to? - Correct Answers ✅Dentist on premises & examines the treatment performed by DA or RDA before releasing patient General Supervision - Correct Answers ✅Doctor/Dentist - is out of office, but has scheduled auxiliary to be at work Nitrous Oxide administration - Correct Answers ✅Dentist - must remain in the operator & Assistant may adjust controls as directed by the dentist A parent brings in child to office on the dentist's day off, the child has a large cavity. The dentist is unreachable by telephone. The "RDA" should do or advise what? - Correct Answers ✅Refer to another dentist Under General Supervision the RDA may perform? - Correct Answers ✅1. Mouth Mirror
- Place and remove sedative dressings
- Expose radiographs
An impression for a "Hawley Retainer" may legally be taken by who? - Correct Answers ✅Dentist only Under Direct supervision the "RDA" may perform? - Correct Answers ✅1. Pulp Vitality test 1 / 3
RDA Practice Exam #1 Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2025)
- Cementation of temporaries
- Size Stainless steel bands, crowns, and orthodontic bands.
- Monitor Vital signs
- Place rubber dam
- Odd or even year of birth
Under Direct Supervision the dental assistant may perform what? - Correct Answers ✅1. Place topical anesthetic
RDA CEU licensure renewal requirements - Correct Answers ✅1. Twenty-five units of continuing education every two years One continuing education unit is equivalent to a lecture or seminar of what? - Correct Answers ✅One hour The RDA license is renewed when? - Correct Answers ✅1.The RDA's birthday
How many continuing education units may be earned in Category 1 and Category II? - Correct Answers ✅At least half must be Category II 2 / 3
RDA Practice Exam #1 Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2025) The maximum number of continuing education units which may be earned in "one day" are how many? - Correct Answers ✅8 units To qualify to the the RDA examination, one must meet any of the following criteria - Correct Answers ✅1. Graduate dental assisting program - accredited by the California Board of Dental Examiners
- Eighteen months - full-time work experience in a dental
- Employee
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office Dental Assistant may perform what? - Correct Answers ✅Place and remove rubber dams When a patient is injured by an auxiliary who is liable? - Correct Answers ✅1. Dentist
The purpose of the "Matrix Band" is to create what? - Correct Answers ✅Replace a missing wall The narrowest part of the tooth is the? - Correct Answers ✅Cervical third