Dental students and scrubs... some ??

[BerkeleyMD]

my question is why dental students are always in scrubs? as med students have labs where we scrub in and when we are in the hospital we sometimes where scrubs, but is it the norm for dental students to always be in scrubs when on campus?

the reason for my question is that my med school is really close to the dental school and the dental students are always in scrubs... always. the only time they weren't was for there white coat ceremony, lol.

is there a lot of lab work in the first years of dental school that would explain my findings?

take care

---

Members don't see this ad.

 

[BuckeyeDent]

F**k off

And its "wear" idiot. Try reading a book other than gross anatomy.

Also, people wear "their" scrubs, not there.

 

[Lidopaine82]

my question is why dental students are always in scrubs? as med students have labs where we scrub in and when we are in the hospital we sometimes where scrubs, but is it the norm for dental students to always be in scrubs when on campus?

the reason for my question is that my med school is really close to the dental school and the dental students are always in scrubs... always. the only time they weren't was for there white coat ceremony, lol.

is there a lot of lab work in the first years of dental school that would explain my findings?

take care

cuz its the uniform

 

[johntara04]

my question is why dental students are always in scrubs? as med students have labs where we scrub in and when we are in the hospital we sometimes where scrubs, but is it the norm for dental students to always be in scrubs when on campus?

the reason for my question is that my med school is really close to the dental school and the dental students are always in scrubs... always. the only time they weren't was for there white coat ceremony, lol.

is there a lot of lab work in the first years of dental school that would explain my findings?

take care

We are surgeons. We perform surgeries ALL DAY LONG. Don't surgeons wear scrubs?

 

[djeffreyt]

Holy crap! why did everyone get all defensive when this MD student asked a question. There was nothing in the way he wrote it that sounds condescending...actually does sound like he or she is simply asking out of curiosity and suddenly some of us dents start attacking the grammar and spelling.

To answer the original question. Some schools require scrubs as part of the uniform (like Nova Southeastern). Other schools require that students wear scrubs whenever in clinic, which is pretty much all day during the 3rd and 4th years of dental school. Scrubs, or some form of equivalent protective clothing, are also part of the normal uniform for dentists and dental staff at most offices and clinics in the regular working world. It's really no different than most of the doctors I work with in the health center wearing their lab coats all day. On most days the doctors never see anyone with a case much worse than a migraine or the cold, but they all have to wear the lab coats due to OSHA regulations.

 

[BerkeleyMD]

Holy crap! why did everyone get all defensive when this MD student asked a question. There was nothing in the way he wrote it that sounds condescending...actually does sound like he or she is simply asking out of curiosity and suddenly some of us dents start attacking the grammar and spelling.

To answer the original question. Some schools require scrubs as part of the uniform (like Nova Southeastern). Other schools require that students wear scrubs whenever in clinic, which is pretty much all day during the 3rd and 4th years of dental school. Scrubs, or some form of equivalent protective clothing, are also part of the normal uniform for dentists and dental staff at most offices and clinics in the regular working world. It's really no different than most of the doctors I work with in the health center wearing their lab coats all day. On most days the doctors never see anyone with a case much worse than a migraine or the cold, but they all have to wear the lab coats due to OSHA regulations.

thanks for a decent response, i was really starting to wondering if what i had said was offensive..

my friends and i always wondered if it was because of labs or clinical assignments. generally we wear lab coats or removable scrubs that go over our clothes and tie at the back, that way we are not in scrubs all day.

as for the personal attacks on grammer.. that was totally uncalled for as we are all professional students and have jumped over many hurdles (high mcat, dat, gpa etc...) to get into our respective programs, so buckeye's response is more of insecurity than anything else. i won't even respond to that, lol.

 

[Lidopaine82]

Holy crap! why did everyone get all defensive when this MD student asked a question. There was nothing in the way he wrote it that sounds condescending...actually does sound like he or she is simply asking out of curiosity and suddenly some of us dents start attacking the grammar and spelling.

To answer the original question. Some schools require scrubs as part of the uniform (like Nova Southeastern). Other schools require that students wear scrubs whenever in clinic, which is pretty much all day during the 3rd and 4th years of dental school. Scrubs, or some form of equivalent protective clothing, are also part of the normal uniform for dentists and dental staff at most offices and clinics in the regular working world. It's really no different than most of the doctors I work with in the health center wearing their lab coats all day. On most days the doctors never see anyone with a case much worse than a migraine or the cold, but they all have to wear the lab coats due to OSHA regulations.

everyone? i wasnt getting defensive, but i can understand why you thought that with the lead in i had. lol

 

[rambo2006]

And every1 lived happily ever after....The end....


😴

 

[Lemming]

Good, a post came up where I can post my opinion. I think dental students wear scrubs to much...like they are coming to school in their pajamas. Some schools at least require one color, which is better, but some let you wear anything you want...and in my opinion it looks tacky, especially when they all pair it with their Air Jordans and converse's. Look professional, feel professional, right?🙂

 

[OMFSdoc]

This turned out to be a pretty ridiculous thread...

BerkleyMD: Dental students have preclinical labs during first and second year almost daily which is why you may notice them in scrubs or lab coats. During their third and fourth year, they are in clinic seeing patients and doing procedures (fillings, root canals, extractions etc...) which is why they are in scrubs at that time.

BuckeyeDent: Your comments were terrible. You are giving Ohio a bad name writing like that under "Buckeye". As far as correcting grammar on this site, that is just dumb. Why would someone take the time to proofread or spellcheck these forum posts, you would have to have no life to do that.

Johntara: We are NOT all surgeons. A surgeon has to go through some general surgery training in order to be called a surgeon (ie ENT, vascular surgeon, OMFS, plastics etc...). Dentists may do some surgical procedures, but they are not surgeons. If you think otherwise, you are wrong.

 

[johntara04]

Johntara: We are NOT all surgeons. A surgeon has to go through some general surgery training in order to be called a surgeon (ie ENT, vascular surgeon, OMFS, plastics etc...). Dentists may do some surgical procedures, but they are not surgeons. If you think otherwise, you are wrong.

Sorry to offend the "surgeons". Dentists perform surgeries all day long, and surgeries are messy and full of body fluids (as our real surgeon friend here can attest to) and so a lot of dentists prefer to wear scrubs.

 

[darius99]

Johntara: We are NOT all surgeons. A surgeon has to go through some general surgery training in order to be called a surgeon (ie ENT, vascular surgeon, OMFS, plastics etc...). Dentists may do some surgical procedures, but they are not surgeons. If you think otherwise, you are wrong.[/QUOTE]

welllll... DDS = Doctor of Dental Surgery (yes i know not everyone is a DDS, but we all know DDS and DMD are equivalent) but my point is that anyone who is a dentist can do surgery if they want to, and when you are in d-school you are doing some types of surgery while you are there (even if you go on to be an orthodontist and never do surgery again)

 

[BuckeyeDent]

It's insecure to point out your lack of elementary grammar? That's a reach.

In reality, you're so embarrassed in the fact that you spell like a fourth grader that you fire back with the generic "you are insecure" response. You have no excuse so you try to mask your inadequacy by attacking me.

If its no big deal, try putting those mistakes on your powerpoint presentation when you give a speech at some hotshot M.D. conference. See how much respect that will get you.

I'm done.

 

[djeffreyt]

Just wanted to add that I didn't mean Lido when I said "everyone." Like many others...I don't recheck every word I type before I submit a post or response. Lido's response to the OP didn't seem defensive or anything at all.

Also, I don't disagree that dentists are a type of surgeon or have the ability to do surgical procedures. But I don't think the majority of dental students do surgeries all day long. I suppose a restoration or an extraction, etc. are surgeries, but most dental students only see one, or two patients in a day in clinic, and a lot of time it can just be for a cleaning or an exam or a denture try in, all of which I don't personally consider surgical procedures, but everyone can have their own opinion.

 

[BuckeyeDent]

Oooohhh, I received an infraction for b**chslapping the M.D. student. This is starting to get fun.

 

[goosestuff]

Oooohhh, I received an infraction for b**chslapping the M.D. student. This is starting to get fun.

why so aggressive?

 

[BerkeleyMD]

It's insecure to point out your lack of elementary grammar? That's a reach.

In reality, you're so embarrassed in the fact that you spell like a fourth grader that you fire back with the generic "you are insecure" response. You have no excuse so you try to mask your inadequacy by attacking me.

If its no big deal, try putting those mistakes on your powerpoint presentation when you give a speech at some hotshot M.D. conference. See how much respect that will get you.

I'm done.

Why is your first sentence a question?? Because if you want to get technical; you aren't even asking a question. It should be phrased, "Is it insecure to point out your lack of elementary grammar?" But who is looking at grammar besides your pathetic self? Your personal attacks (telling me to F**k off) directed towards me after my first post renders you totally pathetic and feel sorry for any of your current or future patients. Who reads through posts on a thread and checks grammar?

My point is that this is a forum for "student doctor's" not future grammar teachers of America. It's funny how you are the only one reading through my posts with a fine-tooth comb (no pun intended) trying to find simple typing errors.

The fact that you are specifically trying to insult my intelligence from the first post onward suggests that you are trying to get the "MD-guy" and start a whole "flame-war" which I will have no part in. That was not the point of my original post. That's why I am calling you insecure. And I would rather you not reply to any of my future posts since you clearly cannot carry on a simple discussion.

Would you rather me call you childish and immature instead of insecure?

 

[BerkeleyMD]

Oooohhh, I received an infraction for b**chslapping the M.D. student. This is starting to get fun.

This coming from someone who is "born to be a buckeye"... omg is this considered fun out there in Ohio? L-O-S-E-R!

I just wanted to thank djeffreyt, and OMFSdoc for their comments. This has been an interesting experience on the dental side of SDN.

 

[SuperC]

Back to the point real quick....

At UF you have two options. Dress attire (tie and slacks for guys) or scrubs. There are a few troopers who dress up a few times a week, but given the options, I vote scrubs. As for the med, vet, pharm, nursing, ect they get to wear (for the most part) what ever they want and honestly it fires me up. I can't sleep or eat. I can't even study, I find myself tied up in this world of bitterness and anger. Why God? Why have you brought this upon me? Did I do something wrong? This all consuming rage drove me PAST the edge of sanity. It makes me so mad I just wanna kick a baby. To top it all off we have to wear the same color scrubs. WTF?!?! I wanted the ones with little puppies on them, you know? Freakin puppies, who doesn't like puppies.
Then when I get home, I have an hour to watch Days of Out Lives and I TiVo Operah so I can get my fix and I forget about life for a while. Kick back a few prozac and maybe a cocktail or ten, put on some lipstick and just relax.

But then.... come 7:30am it starts all over again. I can't take it, it is much too much tubbie custard. My feet smell and the day is gone.

Making complete sense always and forever, the one and only,
Super C

 

[Dutchboy]

I'm a first year at Nova where scrubs is the dress code. I thought it sounded stupid at first but it definitely serves a purpose. We have rotations in the clinic and my scrubs get fairly dirty in lab (powder from drilling fake teeth, water, etc.).

 

[djeffreyt]

Oooohhh, I received an infraction for b**chslapping the M.D. student. This is starting to get fun.

Although nothing I say will probably change your opinion about your posts, I'll still point out that the problem I see here isn't that you b**tchslapped an MD student, it's that you did it a any person. If it had been an OD or PA or even a dental student who asked the same question, you probably wouldn't have taken the same defensiveness and agressiveness to answering it.

It's like you're the jerk at the bar or at the party who starts a pointless argument and fight with some other random guy for something as minor as him wearing a football jersey for a team you don't like. You don't know the guy; the guy never did anything to you, but because he isn't an ardent supporter of the same team you support, you feel the need to start a fight over nothing.

It's childish...and that's why we responded to you the way we did.

 

[BuckeyeDent]

HAHA, you guys are a riot.

Berkeley, that was another reach. You have nothing. You wouldn't have caught those mistakes even if you were trying to use proper grammar. It's because you don't know the difference between the two usages.

I'm not coming back here since I'm going to be banned soon. So don't bother responding.

And yes, I consider Ohio better than the transvestite capital of the U.S.

Keep trying to save the world dingus.

Buckeye signing off.

 

[skibikegolf]

Wow, all that from BuckeyeDent just for asking about dental students in scrubs.... I would love to hear his opinion on what shoes to wear with scrubs, or maybe what color scrubs..... but since he is banned (thankfully) we will never be able to hear his wisdom on such important issues

 

[beannaithe]

Wow...what was up with that guy?

To the OP - At my school, we wear scrubs because it's our uniform. No one can tell us why really...they think it makes us look more professional, plus when we're working with stuff you can get scrubs really dirty and not feel bad about it. 🙂

 

[djeffreyt]

Wow...what was up with that guy?

To the OP - At my school, we wear scrubs because it's our uniform. No one can tell us why really...they think it makes us look more professional, plus when we're working with stuff you can get scrubs really dirty and not feel bad about it. 🙂

anonymity brings out the worst in people...or, in this case, the truth in people. Buckeye won't be able to be this antisocial and annoying in real life with his patients, co-workers and colleagues to their face, so he or she has to let it out somewhere.

 

[SuperC]

Mexico... I like Mexico. Then I wander though the forrest and ponder the taste of my toes? Have you ever washed your clothes with olive oil? Tastey goodness. Pointless postes are pointless in the sky with out point with sea shells on the sea shore woodchucks and chucking is mindless babbel.

 

[1992Corolla]

What beats wearing pajamas to school? Nothing.

I wear scrubs on cadaver day so my clothes don't smell like dead phenol.

Also about the surgeon stuff. I don't think it is the word surgeon we should look at. Surgery would be more valid. What is surgery? An operative procedure that involves instruments? That sounds right. So technically every time tissue is broken in the body (mouths count right?) be it gingiva, or tooth structure (don't forget the almighty tooth is tissue) then it is considered surgery.

Fitting a denture or taking an impression does not fit the bill. A MOD does. Therefore dentists are technically surgeons. Will this statement make some people mad? Maybe a cardio guy who doesn't think our education is grandeur enough. Maybe the podiatrist who thinks we can't handle the scalpel (he is probably right). However dentists do perform surgical procedures, so technically JohnTara is correct.

Look for a still picture on the internet (there are some in Sturdevant Restorative Dentistry) of the crap that comes out of someones mouth during a normal procedure. That stuff is flying everywhere and i would rather have my office laundry handle it than my home or family...another reason for scrubs.

Lab work gets messy. Not messy enough to destroy your clothes, but scrubs cost 10 bucks (or free from hospital) and my jeans and Hollister shirt cost me about 100 bucks. Which one should a poor dental student preserve?

Chicks. TV always shows us that hot chicks go for guys in scrubs. Add a moustache to that (GO SUPERC) and you have one hell of a magnet!!!

 

[TempleDMD]

What are scrubs? Is that something you use to clean the sink with?

 

[1992Corolla]

I love these posts! He keeps it real. That is so awesome.

 

[aphistis]

So technically every time tissue is broken in the body (mouths count right?) be it gingiva, or tooth structure (don't forget the almighty tooth is tissue) then it is considered surgery.

Especially gingiva. According to most of the faculty in a specialty I won't identify, trimming back hyperplastic gingiva is one of the most demanding and technique-sensitive surgical procedures ever developed by man. Real surgeons don't reconstruct pan-facial trauma, they crown-lengthen.

 

[johntara04]

Especially gingiva. According to most of the faculty in a specialty I won't identify, trimming back hyperplastic gingiva is one of the most demanding and technique-sensitive surgical procedures ever developed by man. Real surgeons don't reconstruct pan-facial trauma, they crown-lengthen.

lol

 

[1992Corolla]

Do they do this as a sterile procedure? LOL

 

[S Files]

HAHA, you guys are a riot.

Berkeley, that was another reach. You have nothing. You wouldn't have caught those mistakes even if you were trying to use proper grammar. It's because you don't know the difference between the two usages.

I'm not coming back here since I'm going to be banned soon. So don't bother responding.

And yes, I consider Ohio better than the transvestite capital of the U.S.

Keep trying to save the world dingus.

Buckeye signing off.

SDN rage? correcting grammar? something's wrong with this guy..you've made a lot of assumptions about the OP i don't know where you're coming from...

to answer the initial question. during basic science didactic training (1st and 2nd yr) we didn't wear scrubs very often. maybe 1 day/week sometimes during dissections, labs, preclinic. 3rd and 4th yrs we wear scrubs almost every day. we had an option of dressing up and the wearing disposable lab coats but that option wasn't taken up very often. we see patients for the majority of 3rd and 4th yr. saliva, blood, other aerosols we'd rather not get on our clothes 🙂

 

[Jaybe]

In my humble opinion, dental students like to wear scrubs because they subconsciously want to prove they are as good as the physicians in hospitals wearing scrubs.

Dental students justify it by saying all the stuff about labs and seeing patients and so forth. In reality, dental students could easily protect their normal clothes in lab or clinic by wearing a disposable barrier jacket. And by wearing real clothes they wouldn't have to look like a damn janitor all the time.

Scrubs for dental students are silly. And personally, I won't be wearing them in my clinic. I doubt I will let my assistants wear them either. Not revealing enough. (j/k)

Okay, now someone's going to get pissed. Let me have it!

 

[scalpel2008]

what about the fact that they are comfortable and it doesn't matter of you get stone, wax, monomer, or all the other crap on them.

 

[dheav005]

or the fact that, despite having a barrier jacket on, i can still get all kinds of stuff on my scrubs. and i mean all kinds of stuff. i got soft reline goo on my pants behind my knee the other day...how does that even happen!? and since the 1s and 2s have to wear professional attire to school, nothing says upperclassman like a sweet pair of scrubs.

 

[johntara04]

In my humble opinion, dental students like to wear scrubs because they subconsciously want to prove they are as good as the physicians in hospitals wearing scrubs.

Dental students justify it by saying all the stuff about labs and seeing patients and so forth. In reality, dental students could easily protect their normal clothes in lab or clinic by wearing a disposable barrier jacket. And by wearing real clothes they wouldn't have to look like a damn janitor all the time.

Scrubs for dental students are silly. And personally, I won't be wearing them in my clinic. I doubt I will let my assistants wear them either. Not revealing enough. (j/k)

Okay, now someone's going to get pissed. Let me have it!

Don't you mean physicians wear scrubs to do this? Checking colds all day justifies scrubs a lot less than doing surgeries all day. 😉

 

[1992Corolla]

Everyone has opinions and it would be silly to go up in arms over your opinion on scrubs. I just think I would rather not ruin my 50 dollar jeans by spilling stone and wax all over them but would rather get my 12 dollar scrubs dirty. Plus the stench of dead person formaldehyde...

I also secretly imagine my self doing a conscious craniotomy at the university hospital when I wear scrubs🙄

 

[scalpel2008]

I doubt I will let my assistants wear them either. Not revealing enough. (j/k)

white scrubs...air water syringes...i'm going straight to hell...

 

[S Files]

In my humble opinion, dental students like to wear scrubs because they subconsciously want to prove they are as good as the physicians in hospitals wearing scrubs.

Dental students justify it by saying all the stuff about labs and seeing patients and so forth. In reality, dental students could easily protect their normal clothes in lab or clinic by wearing a disposable barrier jacket. And by wearing real clothes they wouldn't have to look like a damn janitor all the time.

Scrubs for dental students are silly. And personally, I won't be wearing them in my clinic. I doubt I will let my assistants wear them either. Not revealing enough. (j/k)

Okay, now someone's going to get pissed. Let me have it!

we watched a video in school entitled "what if saliva were red" you should watch it too.

 

[rambo2006]

I got my favorite shoes dirty today when I was making an impression. It sucked really bad. I felt it and then looked down....there it was a blob of stone on my New Balance 1041 (right shoe..if u really care).

Good thing buckeye iznt heer, cuz I refuze 2 B cuting all this text & pasting it in MS word 2 do spell cheq.😱 😱 😱

 

[OMFSCardsFan]

we watched a video in school entitled "what if saliva were red" you should watch it too.

That was a great flick...

 

[Sprgrover]

we watched a video in school entitled "what if saliva were red" you should watch it too.

They made us watch that thing here at Penn during the first couple of weeks. Personally, I thought it would work better if the message was delivered through the fine art of sock puppetry.

 

[WestCoast]

A surgeon has to go through some general surgery training in order to be called a surgeon (ie ENT, vascular surgeon, OMFS, plastics etc...)

this is actually not true. look at optho. many of them do one yr of medicine for pgy1 as opposed to general surgery. and they still call themselves "surgeons"

 

[Dr. Dai Phan]

Especially gingiva. According to most of the faculty in a specialty I won't identify, trimming back hyperplastic gingiva is one of the most demanding and technique-sensitive surgical procedures ever developed by man. Real surgeons don't reconstruct pan-facial trauma, they crown-lengthen.

I do surgeries all day long. Trimming dentures is truly plastic surgery. DP

 

[armorshell]

I do surgeries all day long. Trimming dentures is truly plastic surgery. DP

LOL

 

[dddsmack]

white scrubs...air water syringes...i'm going straight to hell...

I'll be right behind ya!

 

[aphistis]

I do surgeries all day long. Trimming dentures is truly plastic surgery. DP

Zing!

 

[johntara04]

I do surgeries all day long. Trimming dentures is truly plastic surgery. DP

Snap!

 

[SuperC]

I wear mine becuze it makse me feal smaert. Does youd feal dis ways azwell? I wante duh smeart medikal kidz to thougte I be smaeat to.