A really nice waxup

[psiyung]

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[aphistis]

Puppy is just beauty

How's the occlusion?

It shore do look purty, though.

 

[simpledoc]

Puppy is just beauty

looks very beautiful and artistic, except that I personally found that the molar was an overkill in terms of the supplemental grooves, which makes it look a little bit like a 3rd molar..great job though! congrats!

 

[ItsGavinC]

Puppy is just beauty

Not too shabby. You have all the makings of a great lab tech.
😉

 

[psiyung]

Not too shabby. You have all the makings of a great lab tech.
😉

😀

Waxing really doesn't matter, but damn, that looks nice. Occlusion and margins are all that matter anyways

 

[ItsGavinC]

It's far better than anything I ever turned in, that's for sure.

 

[DrTacoElf]

How are supplemental grooves determined when waxing? Is it pretty much arbitrary assuming they don't affect occlusion.

 

[psiyung]

How are supplemental grooves determined when waxing? Is it pretty much arbitrary assuming they don't affect occlusion.

Yeah basically...I usually just "feel" it when I draw them in. I think it all depends in how wide you make your triangular ridges

 

[ItsGavinC]

I really stink at waxing and was never able to find a way to get much better than when I started. Every now and then I'd have a good day turn out a nice product, but it was never consistant.

Waxing was one of the most depressing parts of my dental education thus far, for me.

 

[psiyung]

I really stink at waxing and was never able to find a way to get much better than when I started. Every now and then I'd have a good day turn out a nice product, but it was never consistant.

Waxing was one of the most depressing parts of my dental education thus far, for me.

Worry not my friend, you'll never have to wax another day in your life once you graduate. Frankly, I am getting sick and tired of it too

 

[DDSSlave]

I really stink at waxing and was never able to find a way to get much better than when I started. Every now and then I'd have a good day turn out a nice product, but it was never consistant.

Waxing was one of the most depressing parts of my dental education thus far, for me.

I agree. The gold work (casting, trimming, adjusting, polishing) would rank a close second for me.

 

[unlvdmd]

How are supplemental grooves determined when waxing? Is it pretty much arbitrary assuming they don't affect occlusion.

You sure know a lot for not even being in school yet. 😴

Let me guess, Pre-oral surgery? 😉

 

[toofache32]

I sucked at waxing, so it took me twice as long to get the same results as everyone else. I got better with time. My 3rd and 4th years, I was the class "lab-*****" who did most of the castings for my class. Another guy did most of the removable so we had a racket going. And made a bucket of money doing it. It was frustrating because I finally got good and quick, but all that anatomy didn't matter much in the clinics. Just margins and occlusion.

 

[12YearOldKid]

Very nice.
Now I'd like to see two pictures of that same thing: one in amalgam and one in composite. 😀


Just kidding. Awesome work.

 

[aphistis]

How are supplemental grooves determined when waxing? Is it pretty much arbitrary assuming they don't affect occlusion.

Theoretically, they *do* affect occlusion, primarily by giving cusp tips a path of escape during excursive movements...but speaking for myself, I've never been anywhere NEAR a good enough waxer to worry about that sort of minutia. If it touches in occlusion, it doesn't in excusion, and has marginal & proximal contact, I'm a happy camper.

 

[DDSSlave]

Nice inlay by the way. Do all of your schools out there have an inlay/onlay requirement? Just Curious. My school requires a total of 4 inlays or onlays resin or gold. Plus we have an inlay/onlay preclinic class. How about the rest of you?

 

[SLIMDEETS]

Nice inlay by the way. Do all of your schools out there have an inlay/onlay requirement? Just Curious. My school requires a total of 4 inlays or onlays resin or gold. Plus we have an inlay/onlay preclinic class. How about the rest of you?

22 Gold crowns, 12 inlay/onlay minimum. Multiple dentures, Fixed and removable, yadda yadda yadda. Premolar contact form exagerated but not bad overall. Take care.........................Canadian DAT carving portion 28.

 

[ItsGavinC]

Nice inlay by the way. Do all of your schools out there have an inlay/onlay requirement?

We are required to do 14 crowns (most of those will be porcelain or porcelain fused to metal) our 3rd year, but have no inlay/onlay requirements.

 

[booshwa]

The sad part is, if I were to turn work in like that, I can almost guarantee that it would just barely be considered acceptable.

Are other school that difficult in terms of grading in that anything you do will be graded so harshly. Obviously it is important to make everything within acceptable, but I sometimes think our faculty just don't give certain grades just because they don't want to...

 

[SLIMDEETS]

The sad part is, if I were to turn work in like that, I can almost guarantee that it would just barely be considered acceptable.

Are other school that difficult in terms of grading in that anything you do will be graded so harshly. Obviously it is important to make everything within acceptable, but I sometimes think our faculty just don't give certain grades just because they don't want to...

Some are pissed off they can't cut it in the real world. Some are new and trying to prove themselves by being hard asses. Others, the best, truly enjoy teaching and want you to do well. All in all were all just people with different opinions. Opinions are like dinguses, everyone has one. If you can't produce acceptable work in the controlled environment of the pre-clinic, you sure as hell can't do it on real patients. All that saliva and biting.