through child-like eyes

Dentistry can be fun. Sure, we have 9 - 5 days, countless preps to do, an endless string of assignments and assessments, late nights trying to finish cramming for a test the next day and prelabs that can take hours to complete (if you want to do a good job of it that is), but i don't think i have ever been through anything where i can learn so much every week.

This year in removable prosthetics we're learning about the denture-making process. We're now at the stage where we fabricate special trays to take an accurate impression of a patient's mouth. Here are the casts, or replicas of an edentulous (toothless) patient's upper and lower jaw:

and here are the casts with finished special trays which will be used to make an even more accurate secondary cast:

As students, we spend hours mixing materials, moulding, shaping, trimming and polishing, to produce the perfect special tray. Or so we hope. Give your special tray to Mr. Brown for corrections, and he'll go zip zip zip through the acrylic and be done! I had to make a tray for the upper jaw and i've spent over 9 hours in total trying to make the perfect base (mine had voids underneath), handle (which ended up being asymmetrical and sloping to one side) and fingerstops (that were too big and too bulky). My special tray by the end of Wednesday:

Messy with folds and creases. Haha. Looks like a kindergartener's work to me.
Thankfully it looked a little better by the end of the session yesterday :)
And there are a few of us who agree that removable pros can be fun after all the stresses in operative dentistry.

*photos from mr. mcgee's lectures. i hope i don't get in trouble for plagiarism :S shhh.

floss anyone?

nope, not candy floss... dental floss! hahaha. today at lecture we learnt how to floss -_-"

did u know u had to wind the floss around your middle finger instead of your index?

"everyone put your middle fingers up! show it to me now!"

hahaha. it felt weird when she said that.

but yeah... something new everyday =)
AND we got free CPP-ACP gum 8)

exams are 11 days away!

and i dont know how i can finish studying =(

it's spring! (or summer??)

ahhh... my favourite time of year.. when the cold of winter is gone, the sun shines till seven/eight and the flowers are out =)

yesterday me, jinjin and noezin were goin back to college from the unimentor talk, and we saw the pretty roses near winthrop hall.

and being us, we stopped and took pictures! oh so pretty, tho we were only armed with 2 MP phones.

good enough..

funny how i'm always looking forward to summer and on monday after practical we were rushing back for lunch in the heat and i was complaining. haha. yuqin was quick to spot it. oops. =S

SpringFeast

today was springfeast - hosted by the international students society - kinda like a pasar malam with all kinds of asian food. YUM! i look like a kid in this pic =[ hmmm.

i just finished my essay on Kawasaki disease. woohooo!! and look at the time! *yawn* i slept for the whole afternoon due to lack of sleep. haha. and then woke up just in time to go for the genetics tute at 6pm. 6pm! that's like dinner time! and i didnt have anything to eat all afternoon so yeahh..

and after tute we headed to the guild village for food at springfeast =) had roti john (never heard of it till today! lol), laksa, cotton candy!

it's late. i need to get to bed.

Zion's Search for a Star

tonight we went to zion's search for a star to watch rachel's church performance at the octagon theatre.

jinjin, noezin and me while waiting for the doors to open
rachel and rachel! ;)
. glow sticks! noezin's the yellow one. haha.
us =)
rachel's group performing =)

owh and i met up with letitia, a long lost school friend!

went back and had unagidon at jono's after that. yum!