2 more days. i'm not gonna make it. lotsa stuff to do. gonna have 2 mad patients tomorrow=(. one patient didn't show up today so i couldn't excavate some ridiculous decay. first patient showed up and she showed up w/ a gift for me. i felt horrible. not only was it taking a long time to schedule her to come in and get her work done, now she's given ( Read more... )

probably the most embarrassing day of clinic so far. spent 2 sessions remaking a temporary crown. dunno why i can't get it w/ vacuum form. dr tunkuc must think i'm an idiot(or even more of an idiot). 2nd patient i had to have a friend take. haven't been lower than this before. think i'm gonna have to practice w/ vacuum form. last few weeks in ( Read more... )

interesting...

You Are 26 Years Old

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Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe ( Read more... )

hmm forgot what i did for the weekend. i kno i studied yesterday and a bit saturday for my perio competency (which i failed cuz i forgot to say the patient needed to be premeditated, i'm an idiot). oh yes, cat's back from brazil and was in ny over the weekend. was invited along w/ brian for dinner(her mom was here too), but brian was on call(his ( Read more... )

bad day in clinic. go in early to make a vacuum form for a temp crown. had to wax up a cast, take an impression of it and then pour up a model to make the vacuum form. did a good prep and started the temp w/ enough time, but then things got screwy. stayed over 30 minutes, had dr tunkuc do alotta the work and then while i was removing it after a ( Read more... )

all day diagnosis today. got a patient and a diag summative outta it=). feel really badly for the patient. 17 yr old girl born w/ hiv and cuz of it has incredibly dry mouth which has lead to every single one of her teeth having a huge carious lesion. when i saw her lower anterior teeth, i had to take a moment to compose myself before saying ( Read more... )

instead of doing a root canal i did 2 extractions today. one came out pretty easily, the 2nd was pretty infected and periodontically involved so there was a bit of pain for my patient. dr cohen came over and took it out quick. diagnosis all day tomorrow. gonna be tired. gonna be waking up early this entire week. not helping my sore throat any ( Read more... )

crap throat feeling kinda itchy. been guzzling oj(i kno that doesn't really work once you get sick, but just in caswe=)). hope it feels better by tomorrow. ran a bit tonite. felt pretty good. filled up my bare fridge w/ over $50 of food. bought some chicken, some beef, some salmon, spinach, green peppers, tuna in a pouch(still don't have a can ( Read more... )

used my $15 off card at express. bought another purple dress shirt. ok no more purple dress shirts. on the way home, stopped for some dinner. 3 hours later, jerome fed me some more dinner=). watched matrix reloaded in like an hour(fastforwarded all the talking scenes). kinda understood what was going on, but not really. some cool action sequences ( Read more... )

active day today. after passing out last nite(w/out a shower), went to play ball on a basically empty stomach(had an entemann's(?) apple thingy, some chocolate milk and chocolate). played for like 2.5 hours. played alright. good exercise. after a quick twister wrap from kfc, went to lift. still weak but getting a bit stronger. dinner of salmon and ( Read more... )