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PART 1 PAPER 1
This paper consists of approximately 200 multiple choice questions: 100 single best answer
questions as well as 20 extended matching themes consisting of a maximum of 100 questions.
There are equal marks for each question. The examination lasts 2½ hours.
The candidate guidance and information on the multiple choice questions given below should be
read in conjunction with the ‘Guidance to Candidates for Part 1 and Part 2’ available on College
Websites.
Guidance to candidates
Instructions to Candidates
• Do not make any marks on your answer sheet other than inserting your candidate number and
indicating your answers with a bold horizontal line in the boxes provided.
• Use only the pencil provided. Do not use pen or ballpoint.
• If you need to change an answer, make sure that you rub it out completely so that the machine
can accept your final answer.
• Do not fold or crease the sheet.
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Example single best answer question
76 A 58-year-old man is attending your surgery for extraction of his upper right canine and
lateral incisor and his upper left second premolar and first molar, with insertion of an
immediate partial denture. After extracting the teeth, you attempt to insert the denture but
are unable to seat it. What is the most likely cause of this problem?
For each of the situations given below, select the single most likely micro-organism from the list of
options above. Each option may be used once, more than once or not at all.
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101 A 17-year-old, otherwise healthy girl presents with 8-10 mm deep periodontal pockets
affecting one lower incisor and both lower first molars. Microbiological samples of the
pocket contents suggest infection with a gram-negative capnophilic organism.
102 A 25-year-old caries-free man with gingivitis, but shallow pockets, develops infective
endocarditis 10 days after a scaling procedure. The same common inhabitant of the oral
cavity is isolated from culture of his venous blood on two consecutive occasions
103 A 10-year-old boy with an elevated temperature has widespread confluent ulcerative
lesions on his marginal and attached gingivae. The adjacent gingivae are erythematous.
104 An area of speckled leukoplakia affects the cheek mucosa adjacent to the left angle of the
lips. Histopathological examination of a biopsy specimen of the affected tissue reveals
superficial infiltration by a micro-organism.
105 A patient, known to be suffering from anaemia, presents with angular cheilitis.
Microbiological sampling of the patient’s nostrils and the angles of his lips yield heavy
growths of the same organism
106 A 55-year-old haemophiliac patient presents with a painless white plaque along both lateral
borders of his tongue. Accentuation of vertical folds with white irregularly thickened
mucosa is evident. Haematological investigation reveals a reduced CD4 cell count
107 Two months after the extraction of his mandibular left molars, a 40-year-old man complains
of a relatively painless nodular left submandibular swelling from which multiple sinuses
have appeared, draining pus, which contains sulphur-like granules. Microbiological
examination of these granules reveals a mixed infection but with one organism
predominating
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