Pre-clinical work on extracted teeth?

[harjay]

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For you dental students, is the majority of your work done on real, extracted teeth that you have to provide/purchase yourself? or do you use fake teeth bought with your supplies?

I am especially looking at the California schools, but any input from other schools would be great too. If I need to start collecting extracted teeth from local dentists/ Oral Surgeons, now would be a good time 🙂

 

[tinman831]

I'm going to go ahead and move this thread to the Dental forum where you'll probably get more responses. It's never too early to start collecting teeth. 🙂

 

[Ebull]

In our first semester at Temple we worked on all ivorine teeth. I think we start drilling the real ones next semester.👍

 

[BuckeyMcGee]

For first year first semester you will likely use stubs of ivorine teeth you buy for dental anatomy wax ups (we had them in our kit we bought). Second semester we used ivorine teeth that came in our kits but of course they didn't supply enough so we had to keep buying more (expensive too). This past summer and all fall we began using extracted teeth that we mounted in a typodont to use in the mouth for endo. Make sure you get a lot b/c good ones are rare. I just dropped off containers at as many dentists/oral surgeons/periodontists/endodontists I could find and they didn't mind.

 

[Regmata]

Not the first year

 

[INFNITE]

at Columbia, most of the preclinical work (dental anatomy, operative etc) will be done on ivorine teeth. for operative, we worked on a few extracted teeth to get a feel for what real teeth is like, and what DEJ looks like etc. If you know how to prep an ivorine tooth though, real teeth is actually easier IMO (it doesn't burn and more difficult to make accidental damage). Endo, we work on real extracted teeth. As far as supplying teeth is concerned, we have to purchase ivorine teeth from Henry Schein store (around 1.75 each. adds up quickly!) and for extracted, it really depends on how the class does it. For our class, we had people who volunteered to collect teeth during the summer between 1st and 2nd year, and these collected teeth were then supplied to the entire class. I do know some schools require students to collect teeth before dental school, but not the case for columbia