Things to dread in D1 labs
Started by mmasurf
Dropping the box.
I hate that.
I hate that.
the VERY first time you use the mouth mirror to drill a prep. Tends to come out just a little funky.
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Wax.
Making provisionals for typodont teeth.
My first one turned actually turned out pretty well. I don't know how or why, but next couple didn't turn out so good. Starting to find my stroke though, so it all works out.
I definitely agree with "breaking contact." Every time I think I got it, I have to break it just a little bit more.
I like to just get down to a thin shell of enamel and pop it off with a hatchet. Or is that even what you're talking about?
How about the ridiculous preclinic professors and their unrealistic expectations?
Not entirely (at least what I know to be 'breaking the contact'). Basically you should be able to fit the extreme tip of an explorer between the edge (corners) of the CSM and the adjacent tooth. You can't do this if the contact hasn't been broken. Class II obvs.
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I'd hardly have been able to make it through a few semesters of operative without knowing what breaking a contact is. 😛
I was just suggesting a technique to easily get there. What I wasn't sure about it whether this dude was trying to prep the contact away or what.
Hearing "you are going to have to start over"
Oh when you said using a hatchet to break the shell I thought you misunderstood what he was talking about. I break the shell first and then worry about breaking my contacts 🙂 Probably what everyone does.
Might be another one of those technique things. Here proximal clearance is ideal at .5mm, so there's really never a question if you've got it or not.
Re-casting that gold bridge 
Geez that sucks. One time is punishment enough.
I did the reverse. I assumed we weren't allowed to use them in fixed, then found out the day of the practical that we could. I pulled out my fancy ultradent matrix protect sample and proceeded to completely annihilated my way through the band and halfway into the marginal ridge of the adjacent tooth. 👍
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See my most previous post.
That one was actually a crown prep. 20 FGC, our first practical in fixed. Thing I didn't tell you is, is that after I blew away the marginal ridge of 21 I just prepped it for a crown as well, and both were so good I got double perfects on a single tooth practical. 😀
Reminds me of this one time I did a DO so good my row instructor got pregnant.
This happened to me my first year too. The funny thing my row instructor was MALE, thats how good my prep was. The classmates around me who breathed in my ivorine dust didn't because they had their rubber dams on. Remember to always practice safe preps.
We re in removables right now and my favorite thing about this class is that we are taught via power point about a procedure and then we head over to the preclinic for a PRACTICAL on something no one has ever done before.
We re in removables right now and my favorite thing about this class is that we are taught via power point about a procedure and then we head over to the preclinic for a PRACTICAL on something no one has ever done before.
Rest prep?
Reminds me of the first day of restorative, in the first week of dental school at Pacific. The first time you've ever picked up a handpiece they ask you to prep a 8 PFM, having only shown you a sagittal and mesial/distal view of the thing, then turn it in. 😱
Yeah a cingulum one...j/k who do you think I am? It was actually just as simple as some rest preps but no one knew what they were doing. Easy to do if you know how to do it, but if you have never done it before...well, thats another story.
We were transferring our surveyed cast design to our typodont. I don't know why we learn this method. Survey a cast for undercuts - the purpose being that you are not 'eyeing' your work, and then transfer the design to the typodont (patient) by none other than the 'eye it' method. Seems like overkill to me.
The other thing I hate is faulty equipment that takes forever to fix.
We were transferring our surveyed cast design to our typodont. I don't know why we learn this method. Survey a cast for undercuts - the purpose being that you are not 'eyeing' your work, and then transfer the design to the typodont (patient) by none other than the 'eye it' method. Seems like overkill to me.
The other thing I hate is faulty equipment that takes forever to fix.
