Archive for October, 2008

My very first filling!

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

I finally filled my first tooth today! It was #19 BO amalgam with slight cuspal coverage on the MB. I was able to take out the amalgam without much of a problem… and I found a lot of weird blackness underneath. Dr. Weinberg was the faculty who oversaw the whole thing and [...]

I DRILLED A TOOTH!

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Today is the first day that I used a high speed handpiece in someone’s mouth! Today’s patient has a cervical class 5 amalgam on #27 and I discovered that the inflammation on the tissue maybe due to a slight overhang. So, with permission, I scaled all the mandibular teeth and I smoothed out [...]

Sarah Palin, your fifteen minutes are up — please step away from the podium

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

When Senator McCain announced his running mate more than a month ago, the world was taken by surprise. News agency, tabloid writers, people like you and me, all started researching and Googling what Governor Palin is all about. Now, with more than 20 million hits under her name, we “know” her just a [...]