Things I do when I am not in school...

I have been REALLY enjoying my time off from school. Recently, I have been able to re-indulge in some of my favorite activities including leisurely reading, shopping, BBQ, laying in the sun, dates with my husband, running, reconnecting with friends, and baking! Tonight I baked cupcakes from scratch with a friend… and lets just say that we both surprised ourselves…they were awesome! I took pic's but this is a different kind of "step by step" photo experience… it is no dental procedure…but def tasted better. Enjoy and Happy Wednesday!!

Fresh strawberries, cream, and vanilla ^

Dry ingredients…boring^

Put it all together and you got cupcake batter ^

Scoopin' er up^

Strawberry buttercream frosting…emphasis on the BUTTER and CREAM :S ^

So dainty, princess-ey, and adorable! ^

And they tasted so good! Now I definitely have a cavity on #30 :(

Must be break time

Don't mind if I do. ^

It is definitely break time for this girl! I finished my summer school yesterday afternoon and I am 100% free for 2 weeks! Let the vacation begin…bring on the fro-yo! Happy Saturday!

Giving back...

This past weekend I went to a community service event that provided dental services to those in need. Here are a few photos from the day. I was able to do a lot of fun procedures including simple extractions, surgical extractions (includes gingival flap, bone reduction, sutures… the whole nine yards), sectioning a bridge, and lots of assisting! Enjoy the photos and hopefully I will get all my photos back up soon. Happy Wednesday!

Doing work ^

Elevating is the key to an extraction… or so I am told. ^

Checking the area ^

Yankin 'er out… jk. Gently removing it ^

 

Takes a whole crew ^

Where the magic happens ^

This is the lunch my husband packed for me… imagine the look on my face when I opened this in a professional setting! ^

Technical difficulties :(

Sorry about the lack of pictures..not just from this post... I mean ALL my pictures! Blogger and myself are having some issues and I hope it will all be resolved soon. It is looking like I will have to manually re-upload all of my pictures :( Ugh. Technology! Patience is a virtue… that I wish I had. Hopefully I am up and running in a week or so. Happy Wednesday!

I spy...

Woot! Woot! Can you spot the complex restoration?! I'll give you a clue… It is a molar. It is not a 2nd molar. It is not a 3rd molar. It does not have amalgam on it. Get it yet? Ok, fine. It is #3. Happy Monday! Hope you are rejuvenated from a wonderful weekend. 

V.I.P

Hello, hello, hello! So, as I mentioned earlier… I saw a V.I.P today in clinic! Sadly, I am not going to be able to reveal who this patient is. Even though I have consent from the patient, I do not want to rock the boat at school or fluster any feathers of the administration. Here is what I can tell you all. 

The appointment went really well. Today, I had to finish his complete oral exam, obtain x-rays, present his treatment plan, and then do a DO composite on #29… and he was a rockstar through the whole thing. The only hiccup we had was that he has a history of being difficult to numb :( So after poking him more times then I would like of liked, and about 90 carps of lidocaine later…he got numb (or so he said… I think he just wanted to get on with the show.) I hadn't seen anything like that before… I mean, the whole half of his mouth was numb, but the second I put the drill on his tooth he could feel it. Maybe he is a drug seeker? Although I have never heard of local anesthetic being anyones drug of choice! (Joking… obviously) Anyhoo, once the decay was removed and we were on to the restoration it was smooth sailing. I couldn't take any pictures that involved more than the mouth because the clinic admins don't want any other patients accidentally getting paparazzied. Understandable I guess. So here are the few that I got… they are not awesome. Sorry. But I will get better at photographing real mouths. Also I don't have any of the restorative process, because we were running out of time. Enjoy and Happy Thursday :)

His pretty teeth before the makeover on #29 ^

It was the distal of #29 that I worked on, even though the ML of #30 probably grabbed your eye. I have a different plan for that guy :) ^

I believe I was rinsing out the box of my prep at this point, or who knows what I was doing. ^

Like I said.. the pics aren't too wonderful. This is the best picture of my prep that I could get. Note: the darkness you see at the distal of #29 is not decay, it is where the box drops down at. It was a pretty prep… to bad I am a bad photographer.

Surprises.

Holy nuts cakes do I have exciting news… I am seeing a very special patient today. I can't quite reveal who it is yet, but if all goes as planned then I will be able to unveil this VIP (very important patient) tonight. Sit tight dental nerds :)