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You don’t know what relief is until you have experienced one of two things: Hemorrhoid relief by Preparation H or finishing and passing second year of dental school. I think it is a coincidence that they both deal with either end of the gastrointestinal tract. I would also venture to say that dental […]

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Not only is this class a beast, the quizzes are very hard to study for and perform well on. We have a quiz in a couple of days on anatomical locations in the mouth. I have attached a couple of sheets you can download and look at if you wish to see what […]

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One of our many classes during the brutal second semester of second year is oral pathology. Oral pathology is the class in dental school where you learn about everything that can go wrong in the mouth from pizza burns to much more serious diseases. The textbook we use is Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, […]

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I have written a lot about what we do in dental school. I have a feeling that many people still don’t know what we DO in dental school though. Sure my pictures show that I pull out a handpiece every once in a while, drill a tooth, take some impressions, go home, eat some […]

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Orthodontics II + Lab
Endodontics I + Lab
Periodontology II (our third one)
Oral Pathology
Pharmacology
Pediatric Dentistry + Lab
Oral Radiology + Lab
Restorative Dentistry IV (removable) + Lab
Anesthesia & Pain Control (mine or the patients?!?) + Lab
I have never had to read so much in my entire life. I bet I will read more in this semester than I […]

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One of the big projects we had this year was to make a porcelain crown from start to finish. We restored tooth #12, a maxillary 1st premolar. This was a tedious process that we had to work on during our own time during the lab.  Some of the steps were required to be […]

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The first step in this is to place the molar brackets on the child typodont and then take an alginate impression with the brackets on. Remove the impression when it has set and if the brackets did not get removed with the impression, take them off the typodont and place them into the alginate. […]

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I almost put this under the title “Tricks of the Trade - Alginate Over Impression.”  Every once in a while you see some work that brings a tear to your eye. A couple of weeks ago one such occasion occurred. My good friend from undergraduate and I are in the same class […]

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We learned early in our first semester that turning in a dirty typodont after a practical might receive a check. The grading forms don’t have a section under cleanliness so no one really thought to clean the mouth. Some people got their grading form back, freshly revised & edited, with a ‘written in’ […]

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This one comes to me from an upper classmen. We were chatting and I mentioned to him that I forgot to put vaseline on my Jade Stone and pin model before pouring up the buff stone base. (As seen in my gold crown write up, here is a pic:)

Normally you place vaseline all […]

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