I accidently set my patient on fire

[Superhuntress]

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So we were learning to make impressions on real people today and I accidently set my patient on fire. I was using the alcohol torch to modify the sides of the tray because they were contacting the buccal portion of the posteriors. I blew the flame out, but apparently the flame wasn't completely out because when the patient leaned over to rinse his mouth his bib caught fire as did his shirt and the paper on the counter!

 

[Meatwad]

He OK?

 

[DrJeff]

This in the big scheme of things is an event that you'll be LAUGHING about for decades to come when you get together with your classmates.

Most every school has 1 student every couple of years that will set someone/something ablaze in clinic. As long as it's just some singed paper/thread and no permanent damage, not a big deal.

 

[Observer]

So we were learning to make impressions on real people today and I accidently set my patient on fire. I was using the alcohol torch to modify the sides of the tray because they were contacting the buccal portion of the posteriors. I blew the flame out, but apparently the flame wasn't completely out because when the patient leaned over to rinse his mouth his bib caught fire as did his shirt and the paper on the counter!

What did the patient say to you afterwards?

 

[Bifid Uvula]

Holly Crap! I'm glad your patient is ok, but that is about the funniest thing I've heard in weeks!

Good thing you aren't one of my friends, because I'd never let you live this one down.

Cheers!

 

[deeyala]

Plenty more fish to fry in the sea! 😀

In my last year at school, one of the students actually set one compartment of the Prosthodontic clinic on fire.

As to alcohol torches, we had one student make his EXPLODE in the clinic.

Ofcourse that was the last time they let us have alcohol torches in , they now use natural gas torches

I think every dental class has at least one student that could be convicted of arson.

You will laugh it off in a couple of years

 

[Superhuntress]

He was totally fine. Luckily a classmate in the next operatory ripped his bib off and threw it on the ground still flaming as I smooshed the flame out on his shirt. The best news other than him being ok was that our very strict (ex-military) course director was upstairs in SimLab grading our projects so he has no idea, plus I got a great impression! And at least in 3 and 1/2 years I'll have a good story to contribute to most memorable moments of dental school even if my classmates are all laughing at me.

 

[Regmata]

Lol...that is great

 

[1992Corolla]

the guy who sits across from me spilled have his monomer on his table (half the bottle)...he then asked the rhetorical question: "I wonder if this is flammable?"

He then lit it on fire after we egged him on. It was like a mini a-bomb went off. Literally a mushroom cloud of black smoke and flame 4 feet high. Funny thing is, no one saw except for the four of us down at the end of our row...

we still ask him every now and then: "Do you think this is flammable?"

😀

 

[I'mFillingFine]

Thanks for the good laughs, everyone. I needed it! It's important to find humor throughout dental school...it's the only thing that'll keep us sane. (Like maybe it's just me, but 85 people bent over metal heads on sticks is pretty damn funny.) Glad your pt is okay 😀

The best I've done is have denture teeth go flying as I was reducing their ridge lap. And then dropping 5 more teeth on the ground as I reached to pick up the first one. Pretty lame. I'm sure I'll think of something more.

 

[JMJRDH1]

This has to be one of the funniest threads ever!!

 

[rocknightmare]

i had set my hair on fire doing the same thing about 2 months ago now.. i was modifying the occlusal rim when i decided to bend over the bench that had a small flame on.. and all of sudden i feel this warm feel on my hair, then relaizing i lit it on fire... i quickly patted it out.. and the whole clinic stunk of my own burning hair.. my patient was like what the he** was that!, but he was good sport about it. thankfully the course director who is in the next row cubicles didn't see--- he asked his students if somebody had something on fire but he couldn't find anything😉

 

[tinker bell]

I have seen a lot of stuff in dental school, but setting patient on fire is sure hilarious. That's one sure way for every body to remember you.
People at my school, one guy took PVS impression of his ear and half way through he said it's hot. Sure that freaking thing is hot. You are smart enough to know that.
A girl took impression of her face, and some eye lashes came out with it too. That was one of the memory scene in dental school nobody will ever forget. If you want people to remember you, do something crazy.

 

[Meatwad]

Note to self: never go to local dental school in order to save a few bucks on my dental care, unless I don't value my life.

 

[DrJeff]

I have seen a lot of stuff in dental school, but setting patient on fire is sure hilarious. That's one sure way for every body to remember you.
People at my school, one guy took PVS impression of his ear and half way through he said it's hot. Sure that freaking thing is hot. You are smart enough to know that.
A girl took impression of her face, and some eye lashes came out with it too. That was one of the memory scene in dental school nobody will ever forget. If you want people to remember you, do something crazy.

That doesn't even get into the entire topic of impressions of certain other body parts😳 I'd bet that in every dental school out there, in just about every class year that there are some "interesting" stone paper weights sitting around in peoples rooms that were made during a late night lab session.

 

[Superhuntress]

How funny would it be for someone to turn their creative cast in as a joke for grading? I can see it now: 77 clinically acceptable casts sitting in a row on the bench top awaiting grading, and one cast of a humorous body part (sanded and buffed no less) sitting next to them as if it belonged there. I think that we could totally do it here because we don't use our names for grading purposes, just a secret number. So if you knew your friend's number you could switch out their cast for the body part cast to mess with the faculty. I think here they would either award us an "excellent" or a "standard not met" before requesting the real cast depending on what kind of mood they were in. Although, to do this you would need faculty with a bit more of a sense of humor than we have in our clinical class.

 

[DrJeff]

How funny would it be for someone to turn their creative cast in as a joke for grading? I can see it now: 77 clinically acceptable casts sitting in a row on the bench top awaiting grading, and one cast of a humorous body part (sanded and buffed no less) sitting next to them as if it belonged there. I think that we could totally do it here because we don't use our names for grading purposes, just a secret number. So if you knew your friend's number you could switch out their cast for the body part cast to mess with the faculty. I think here they would either award us an "excellent" or a "standard not met" before requesting the real cast depending on what kind of mood they were in. Although, to do this you would need faculty with a bit more of a sense of humor than we have in our clinical class.

I bet that would be no problem, with the correct faculty of course. As one of my classmates demonstrated at a Halloween party while we were in d-school, those green flexible alginate mixing bowls can make great substitutes on the 'ol coconut shell bra costume! Although she had to get some of the larger 6" deep bowls as opposed to the 4" standard ones😉

 

[dmd20000]

is it true that Yaheee extracted the wrong tooth?

 

[tinker bell]

He sure did, and patient didn't even mind.

 

[HuyetKiem]

Note to self: never go to local dental school in order to save a few bucks on my dental care, unless I don't value my life.

or don't come to dental school for your dental care during the summer months 😉😉