Hi Francesca and everybody!!
I sugest to all of you to start helping each other by making specific questions.
I think nobody knows how the Board is going to grade us for the RT with the new format. Before, we had to do beautiful preps with exact measurements, shapes, angulations, etc, without touching the adjacent teeth or gums in order to have a passing grade. Even with open typodont, direct light, whatever position in which we felt more comfortable to work, etc, those preps were difficult to do and they were very strict and many candidates failed. Now, we have to do the same in a mounted typodont, with no direct light (unless you buy a headlamp), retracting cheeks, use the mirror and work with indirect view. We suppose to do something that in real life most dentists simply can't. The same Dr. Duggan says that in his dvd's and the Board knows that, but they are not going to be easy with us...Come on, we are foreign dentists and have to probe our skills in the more difficult way, with bloody tears.
This is my today's advice to all of you (including myself):
-Get everything you need to practice.
-Study very well measurements, shapes, angulations, rules, etc, for all the preps.
-Prep, prep, prep, prep, prep; everytime better and better (and faster).
-Ask specific questions and make sure you have knowledge to share, too.
I wish to all of you the best.
Pepita.
PS: Somebody asked me if Duggan's dvd's were good or not. Well, it depends how prepared you are already.
