Folks,
I want to share some funny stories from when I went to dental school. Feel free to add to them.
Story #1
When I was in school, we usually scheduled our patients for 3 or 4 hour appointments, so a no-show or a late cancellation was a real waste. I happen to have the school record for the best excuse for a no-show. Seems this was the last of 8 apointments for my denture patient when I was going to insert the denture and finally it would walk out the door and I would get credit for the case. The bill had to be payed at the buisness office, final insertion and adjustments done, then I get my credit. Maisey, lovely very overwieght gal didn't show. Reason: " I cut my toe nails to short last night and I couldn't walk down the hill." Beat that one.
Story #2
We had open cubicles in Diagnosis that were used for first appointmnets and consultations, with just partitions in between. Tommy White was examining his new patient and introducing her to the fine quality of care and superior facilities. By overhearing the conversation, we knew she had reservations about being treated by students. Now, in this clinic, on the units we had electric heaters that were sometimes used to soften wax and stuff in other clinics. Someone had stuffed a piece of pink baseplate wax down into it and when Pete Friedman shows up in the next cubicle, he switches the main unit on and in about 5 minutes there is billowing white smoke roaring out of the cubicle. Pete gets a cup of water and throws it into the electric heater and all the lights go out over the bay of eight operatories. Tommy White's patient sits straight up in the chair, grabs her purse off the floor and her xrays off the view box and runs down the aisle never to be seen again. Honest to Pete.
Story #3
This is Pete Friedman again. Retorative clinic. His dental assistant was taking a practical exam. This very important exam will be graded by an observer as well as input from the student dentist. Right now he's working on an amalgam and the dental assistant has to hand him instruments and materials he needs, four hand style, without him asking for them. Out of the blue comes this Kamakazi fly and lands dead on the patient's tongue, stuck, upsidedown by the wings. This very nervous dental assisting student who can't make any mistakes is miffed. What is the proper instrument for removing a dead stuck fly from a person's tongue? Resourseful, she picks up an amalgam carrier, sticks into Pete's hands. Pete scoops the bug up with the large end and hands it back. Pete just says "That was correct."
More later.
endotom
I want to share some funny stories from when I went to dental school. Feel free to add to them.
Story #1
When I was in school, we usually scheduled our patients for 3 or 4 hour appointments, so a no-show or a late cancellation was a real waste. I happen to have the school record for the best excuse for a no-show. Seems this was the last of 8 apointments for my denture patient when I was going to insert the denture and finally it would walk out the door and I would get credit for the case. The bill had to be payed at the buisness office, final insertion and adjustments done, then I get my credit. Maisey, lovely very overwieght gal didn't show. Reason: " I cut my toe nails to short last night and I couldn't walk down the hill." Beat that one.
Story #2
We had open cubicles in Diagnosis that were used for first appointmnets and consultations, with just partitions in between. Tommy White was examining his new patient and introducing her to the fine quality of care and superior facilities. By overhearing the conversation, we knew she had reservations about being treated by students. Now, in this clinic, on the units we had electric heaters that were sometimes used to soften wax and stuff in other clinics. Someone had stuffed a piece of pink baseplate wax down into it and when Pete Friedman shows up in the next cubicle, he switches the main unit on and in about 5 minutes there is billowing white smoke roaring out of the cubicle. Pete gets a cup of water and throws it into the electric heater and all the lights go out over the bay of eight operatories. Tommy White's patient sits straight up in the chair, grabs her purse off the floor and her xrays off the view box and runs down the aisle never to be seen again. Honest to Pete.
Story #3
This is Pete Friedman again. Retorative clinic. His dental assistant was taking a practical exam. This very important exam will be graded by an observer as well as input from the student dentist. Right now he's working on an amalgam and the dental assistant has to hand him instruments and materials he needs, four hand style, without him asking for them. Out of the blue comes this Kamakazi fly and lands dead on the patient's tongue, stuck, upsidedown by the wings. This very nervous dental assisting student who can't make any mistakes is miffed. What is the proper instrument for removing a dead stuck fly from a person's tongue? Resourseful, she picks up an amalgam carrier, sticks into Pete's hands. Pete scoops the bug up with the large end and hands it back. Pete just says "That was correct."
More later.
endotom