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I wrote this article a couple of months ago after my first experiance in our oral surgery clinic.  I am a little burned out on studying for Part I of the National Dental Board Examination (NBDE Part I) so I decided to edit it a little bit, add to it and post it for your […]

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Sorry about lack of updates.  I have been busy treatment planning patients (and extracting a few of thier teeth) and studying for Boards Part I.  I will be back to reality in about 4 weeks when I take the test.  It is crunch time.  My materials are as follows:

Dental Decks copyright 2006-2007
First Aid NBDE book
Old Class […]

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Our school works like this:
We have various duty days - days assigned to us where we go and work in certain clinics. We have oral surgery duty, radiology duty, pedodontics, admissions, etc. We see new patients while in admissions. They come into the dental school and this is the initial visit. It is fairly […]

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It’s been almost a year since we started making our first gold crown. Although sometimes it feels like it has been twenty years since we were prepping our first crowns on ivorine teeth and waxing up a mediocre replacement, the time has gone by very quickly. In fact, we were assigned our first […]

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Introducing the DMDstudent.com dental forums. Hopefully this forum become a great resource for pre-dental students, dental students, and dentists. I have integrated the forum into the blog for ease of use. I would like to thank the creators of simple forum for this easy to use forum.
The forum can be […]

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I had an admissions duty day last week with a few of my classmates. We basically helped a junior student, also on admissions duty, admit a new patient into the school. Here is how it went:
We showed up on time, signed our name for attendance, and received a 100 page packet on the […]

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DrStudentDentist.com a site run by a new UoP dental student. This is a great site for those wanting to know details about UoP and some personal experiences about shadowing an oral surgeon, what to expect on the day of the DAT, and some more study hints and tips. Should I toot my own […]

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After the last final of second year, a relaxing weekend, and some heavy duty sleep (well, as much as can be expected with two kids), we started our transition into the clinics. We have two new classes this summer I block, as well as a continuation of our complete dentures class. The two […]

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Technically there are no wild animals running around the school, unless you can catch a lost cockroach or two. This is not to dog on Temple. Every building in the city has cockroaches in it, that is just part of life. The cool trick is to see if you can actually spot […]

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I apologize for the confusion I may be causing…BUT this is the final resting place of DMDstudent.com and hopefully the new look for a while. My blog content manager (the program I use to run the website) was outdated (wordpress) and my blog template was outdated. I thought that using a new home […]

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