Clinic Tips

[salem7]

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As I prepare to begin clinics in a few weeks I was wondering if any of the old pros have tips/ recommendations that would be useful for newcomers in the clinics.

For example:
1. Which safety glasses do you use that offer protection and don't fog up; is there anything you put on your glasses to prevent fog?
2. How do you prevent sweating on a patient when you're doing a stressful procedure? I've seen dentists ask an assistant to wipe their forehead, but we don't have assistants.
3. How do you handle it when a professor tries to make you look like a rel dumb@ss in front of one of your patients?

 

[HuyetKiem]

As I prepare to begin clinics in a few weeks I was wondering if any of the old pros have tips/ recommendations that would be useful for newcomers in the clinics.

For example:
1. Which safety glasses do you use that offer protection and don't fog up; is there anything you put on your glasses to prevent fog?
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You've worn your face mask backward (inside out). 🙂 🙂 🙂

 

[odontastic]

To reduce fogging of your eyewear, try spraying and cleaning them with Mizzy's silicone emulsion spray to reduce surface tension and adapting the upper part of your face mask closer to your face by bending the metal strip. I find that it also helps to balloon out your mask to increase the area for your breath to escape. I've seen some people tape the top part of the mask to their face.

Being able to accept criticism and always improving your clinical skills, knowledge, and judgment so that you can learn to become your own hardest critic are important. I think that most professors try to provide feedback in a sensitive and discreet manner in the presence of patients. However, if it happens, you can try to work with different faculty and let this person know that you would prefer to be taken aside, away from the operatory, to discuss anything that might harm your doctor-patient relationship and prevent your from providing the best care possible.

 

[toofache32]

I think that most professors try to provide feedback in a sensitive and discreet manner in the presence of patients. However, if it happens, you can try to work with different faculty and let this person know that you would prefer to be taken aside, away from the operatory, to discuss anything that might harm your doctor-patient relationship and prevent your from providing the best care possible.

What?!?! Where the hell do you go to dental school? Where I went, we got a boot in the a$$ every day....if we b!tched they gave us the other boot, too. I want to know what school employs the rational faculty you describe, because that's where I'll send my alumni money while my alma mater will just get a copy of those receipts.

 

[aphistis]

To reduce fogging of your eyewear, try spraying and cleaning them with Mizzy's silicone emulsion spray to reduce surface tension and adapting the upper part of your face mask closer to your face by bending the metal strip. I find that it also helps to balloon out your mask to increase the area for your breath to escape. I've seen some people tape the top part of the mask to their face.

Being able to accept criticism and always improving your clinical skills, knowledge, and judgment so that you can learn to become your own hardest critic are important. I think that most professors try to provide feedback in a sensitive and discreet manner in the presence of patients. However, if it happens, you can try to work with different faculty and let this person know that you would prefer to be taken aside, away from the operatory, to discuss anything that might harm your doctor-patient relationship and prevent your from providing the best care possible.

Uh-huh. Let us know how you feel when you actually, y'know, start clinic.

 

[drhobie7]

What?!?! Where the hell do you go to dental school? Where I went, we got a boot in the a$$ every day....if we b!tched they gave us the other boot, too. I want to know what school employs the rational faculty you describe, because that's where I'll send my alumni money while my alma mater will just get a copy of those receipts.

Hehehe. He's a Bruin. Actually, Odontastic's descritpion is characteristic of my clinic experiences at UCLA. The clinic instructors have been super cool, especially the residents. It makes me want to come back and do a half day once a week to continue the trend of having chill people in clinic. You guys should consider teaching half a day when you're done with training. Students would probably be stoked to have you. Well, maybe not Toofache. I think I see him shining his boots over there in the corner. 😀

 

[dentheartthrob]

1. Which safety glasses do you use that offer protection and don't fog up; is there anything you put on your glasses to prevent fog?

I wear prescription glasses, so the clinical instructors are pretty lenient it with me, but i do make use of a magnifying head gear that i bought through ebay, that comes with a face shield and a light bulb which really helps me. Too bad i didnt think of using it while I was a sophmore.

 

[drhobie7]

I just wear my loupes. They fog occasionally, but I pull my mask up near the bridge of my nose and put my loupes about midnose. This seems to prevent exhaled air from coming up to my loupes and they don't fog up.

Anyone got tips for keeping your mirror clear???

 

[HuyetKiem]

Anyone got tips for keeping your mirror clear???

Spray with water from your high speed 🙂 🙂 Work perfectly for me.

 

[12YearOldKid]

Anyone got tips for keeping your mirror clear???

Rub it along the inside of the patient's cheek.

 

[odontastic]

Anyone got tips for keeping your mirror clear???

I've tried a solution just for this purpose that you dip your mirror into that didn't seam to work any better than rubbing the reflective surface on the inside of the pt. cheek. It can help to wipe off the debris or film with a 2x2 with rubbing alcohol that the air/water syringe is unable to spray off. I don't like using the pt. bib for that.

 

[umkcdds]

Anyone got tips for keeping your mirror clear???

get a little cup of scope, or listerine to dip it in every so often. i use those those little, clear medicine measuring cups. the school has tons of them.

 

[DcS]

3. How do you handle it when a professor tries to make you look like a rel dumb@ss in front of one of your patients?

 

[Pelotari]

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For example:
1. Which safety glasses do you use that offer protection and don't fog up; is there anything you put on your glasses to prevent fog?

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Back in my racquetball days, I used a product to prevent fogging that was outstanding. The name was "Cat Crap". Really, that was the name. You could find this at any sports store. It came in a small, round, red plastic container about 1.5 inches in diameter by 0.5 inches deep). You would spread a very small amount of this pale blue-ish gel over the goggles with your finger and then wipe with a soft cloth. It worked wonders in the court.