How hard is NYU lab work and practicals?

[shaaka]

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I am not so good at practicals work...How hard it will be in NYU? Will they remove me from university if i do mistakes or if i cannot manage practicals. Anybody has knowledge about NYU....


I don't want to be a looser 😡 , and don't want to loose money...


Thanks
Shaaka

 

[Meggs]

I am not so good at practicals work...How hard it will be in NYU? Will they remove me from university if i do mistakes or if i cannot manage practicals. Anybody has knowledge about NYU....


I don't want to be a looser 😡 , and don't want to loose money...


Thanks
Shaaka

Shaaka,

"One prep a day keeps remedials away"; at least that's the first thing they tell us at Pacific. 🙂

Most students go trough the same thing at some point in all the schools. Don't worry about it. If by the time you start school you realize you're out of shape with your hand skills, buy a whole bunch of teeth, and practice preps like it's nobody's bussiness. Stay after shool in the evenings, come on saturdays, practice during lunch, come at 7pm before school starts, just do something to make sure you practice enough.

Most of us only do the preps were told to do by instructors, but the truth is that is to OUR benefit to practice as much as possible. Practice at least 2 or 3 preps a week for practice purposes only, not becuase they're an excerise you need to turn in and that will be graded. Pick a couple of instructors you feel comfortable with and tell them that you want to show them this prep you did this am for practice only. I bet you they'll be more than glad to help you out, pointing out the goods and the bads without having to be graded.

Avoid doign benchtop work even if you think you will get away with it; becuase you can't do benchtop on the practicals, on the boards and let alone on patients, so what's the point?

I don't know how NYU is about taking care of their students. Pacific is usually pretty good about it, because they care about their board passing rates and they don't want to let it go down, so they'll push you to the limits, beleive me! Tell make you do extra homework, remedials on Saturdays, etc.

What do you prefer, practice due to your own initiative or have to go to remedial and not been able to graduate on time? I recommend the first option, you save money, you save time and most of all, you save your selfestime.

Take care, Good luck

 

[moneeza]

A extremely useful reply..would u also offer some guidance into prosthetic work - how to get away with extremely poor skills at waxing and set-ups? (non-existent would be a better word)

Thanks...

Shaaka,

"One prep a day keeps remedials away"; at least that's the first thing they tell us at Pacific. 🙂

Most students go trough the same thing at some point in all the schools. Don't worry about it. If by the time you start school you realize you're out of shape with your hand skills, buy a whole bunch of teeth, and practice preps like it's nobody's bussiness. Stay after shool in the evenings, come on saturdays, practice during lunch, come at 7pm before school starts, just do something to make sure you practice enough.

Most of us only do the preps were told to do by instructors, but the truth is that is to OUR benefit to practice as much as possible. Practice at least 2 or 3 preps a week for practice purposes only, not becuase they're an excerise you need to turn in and that will be graded. Pick a couple of instructors you feel comfortable with and tell them that you want to show them this prep you did this am for practice only. I bet you they'll be more than glad to help you out, pointing out the goods and the bads without having to be graded.

Avoid doign benchtop work even if you think you will get away with it; becuase you can't do benchtop on the practicals, on the boards and let alone on patients, so what's the point?

I don't know how NYU is about taking care of their students. Pacific is usually pretty good about it, because they care about their board passing rates and they don't want to let it go down, so they'll push you to the limits, beleive me! Tell make you do extra homework, remedials on Saturdays, etc.

What do you prefer, practice due to your own initiative or have to go to remedial and not been able to graduate on time? I recommend the first option, you save money, you save time and most of all, you save your selfestime.

Take care, Good luck

 

[Meggs]

A extremely useful reply..would u also offer some guidance into prosthetic work - how to get away with extremely poor skills at waxing and set-ups? (non-existent would be a better word)

Easy, you CAN'T get way with it. 🙂

Dear, my skills weren't simply rusty, they weren't simply zero, they were negative amounts!. I swear if you could have measured them it would have been like a -100% grade in lab skills. My first removable I had to set it up 3 times and then the pt didn't like the esthetics, so I had to set them AGAIN!!!! 😱

That's the very same reason I encourage everyone to at least volunteer in a dental tech lab before school starts. You have no idea how useful that can be. Specially when you have 2 removable wax try ins the day after a long weekend or during exams week, and all you want to do is get the hell done to get out of there.

Some people say taking sculpture class at a arts college can help, but I'll do that if I find no dental lab that wants me at least sweaping the floor. 🙂

If you don't realize how much you suck until school starts (like me 🙂, then simply practice, practice, practice over and over and over and over. Try different techniques, learn from those classmates of yours that are good at it, ask for help, etc.

Everyone has different techniques on how to wax up. Those proffesors that went to prostho school are extremely good at tips, tricks and pointers on how to do stuff, 'cause at their postgrad programs they had to do it like a zillion times. I always ask them for advice in everything, they are simply the most useful in that.

We have a couple of faculty that used to be lab techs before becoming drs, and those guys are simply nascar fast moving teeth in baseplate wax.

Also I assume all dental schools have a lab department, well those guys working in that department are lab techs, always go and ask them for help, specially because they know the fastest way to get it done.

Don't panic, no matter how bad you think you are, chances are there will be people worst than you (like the freshmen) so don't worry. 🙂 Good luck

 

[Khurram]

Hey guys, dont worry,
i'm sure there are a lot of students that go to idp's whos' clinical skills are weak and when i get in i'm gonna be one of them!...i can especially feel for moneeza, who is from pakistan and i'm sure just like in LMDC there are ways to get around ure quota's by not doing a lot of practical work so i can understand how ure skills might be weak. I"m in the same situation, I mean i dont think i can even do a decent mod anymore let alone a wax up, the only thingi'm sure i' can do right is an extraction🙂 and why is that? cuz i actually did 150 of them in the clinics at college.
Also at NYU at least u are starting at 2nd year instead of 3rd year so you'll be taught all the basics all over again, and u will regardless still have more clinical expereince than the 2nd year that you will be joining... i asked this question to Ms. Amy Knowles when i was being interviewed at NYU.
And because i took my part 1 right after i graduated I didn't even do a housejob (which in pakistan at least, is where you actually develop some clinical skills!). so i'm probably far worse off then you😉
Dont worry bout that aspect of it, just get in first, then there will be a lot more time and a lot more things to worry about later!

 

[Chompers]

some are gifted with the ability, and some have to practice continuously to catch up. ive seen some doctors that still havent perfected their abilities. i dont understand how some of u graduated without sufficient practice. the only ones in my class that wouldnt have the abilities are the girls that would whine to the doctors and the time would soon run out, so the doctors would sit down and complete their work. if you were good, the difference at the beginning would be speed and efficiency. if not, start practicing from the start. some/most people are there because of grades, not ability. not all dentists are created equal.

 

[moneeza]

Sheesh man u r bitter..well how some of us graduated without good skills? good question..but the fact is that in our college no one actually sat down and taught us anything..the idiots thought we were born with the ability..I remember one day siiting all day in the prosthetics lab trying to do a set up and then quitting when I realized there was no way I could do it without supervision..so I just went next door to the technicians lab for help..we are not spoonfed it is just that it is our system..

before u start doubting our ability ask for our scores and peformance in various exams..and in our class actually the boys did not do any work at all..the girls were generally better..

some are gifted with the ability, and some have to practice continuously to catch up. ive seen some doctors that still havent perfected their abilities. i dont understand how some of u graduated without sufficient practice. the only ones in my class that wouldnt have the abilities are the girls that would whine to the doctors and the time would soon run out, so the doctors would sit down and complete their work. if you were good, the difference at the beginning would be speed and efficiency. if not, start practicing from the start. some/most people are there because of grades, not ability. not all dentists are created equal.

 

[angietom]

some are gifted with the ability, and some have to practice continuously to catch up. ive seen some doctors that still havent perfected their abilities. i dont understand how some of u graduated without sufficient practice. the only ones in my class that wouldnt have the abilities are the girls that would whine to the doctors and the time would soon run out, so the doctors would sit down and complete their work. if you were good, the difference at the beginning would be speed and efficiency. if not, start practicing from the start. some/most people are there because of grades, not ability. not all dentists are created equal.

hey
chompers man r u rude!..what u said does not apply for everybody..there are girls who are excellent in their handwork..but there are also some who need to get better with practice and trust me cuz i've seen they really do try their best n only when they feel its no use do they get someone to do it..but guys even thou they can do it they prefer getting the technicians to do it cuz of their inherited lazyness ok...this is what i have seen..n personally i dont think u shud judge anyone on your assumptions of things..