Waxing Practical Tomorrow (#8)

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Tomorrow is our first waxing practical. We have 4 hours to do #8. I've been practicing and i'm pretty happy with my progress. I just completed #8 in 2 hours 10 minutes and was happy enough with it to turn it in. I did notice some minor flaws in it in terms of facial anatomy but i'm afraid to get too greedy, go for the A and screw it up in the last few minutes. Anyway i'm aiming for 85 or above.

Do you guys remember your first practicals?

This one is 15% of our grade.
 
I found that I would allow myself about 2/3 of the allotted time. For me, this was the point at which my work had reached low "A" quality. After that I would get up and go wander the halls for a few minutes , check my e-mail, etc...

If after returning I found something heinously wrong with my work I would fix it. Minor things would not get touched. It's just too easy to look at that project and think "if I tweaked that just a little..." and destroy 2 hours worth of work. 😀
 
Yeah, I remember being a nervous wreck doing #8 for our first practical, but I ended up being surprised at how efficient I was and at the fact that I got a good grade. It sounds like you've been preparing a lot and I'm sure you'll do great.

DrTacoElf said:
Tomorrow is our first waxing practical. We have 4 hours to do #8. I've been practicing and i'm pretty happy with my progress. I just completed #8 in 2 hours 10 minutes and was happy enough with it to turn it in. I did notice some minor flaws in it in terms of facial anatomy but i'm afraid to get too greedy, go for the A and screw it up in the last few minutes. Anyway i'm aiming for 85 or above.

Do you guys remember your first practicals?

This one is 15% of our grade.
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4 hours for #8....WOW!!!! We got 2.5 hours and most people were done in 1.5 hours. One person did fail for waxing #9 and it was perfect. Actually the professors were so impressed with this person's #9 in the end they ended up getting a 70.
 
then i am screwed.. my pratical is next wednesday and i haven't been able to finish a grade "A" one yet.
 
12YearOldKid said:
I found that I would allow myself about 2/3 of the allotted time. For me, this was the point at which my work had reached low "A" quality. After that I would get up and go wander the halls for a few minutes , check my e-mail, etc...

If after returning I found something heinously wrong with my work I would fix it. Minor things would not get touched. It's just too easy to look at that project and think "if I tweaked that just a little..." and destroy 2 hours worth of work. 😀
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yeah i learned about tweaking the first time i attempted #8 :scared:
 
DrTacoElf said:
Tomorrow is our first waxing practical. We have 4 hours to do #8. I've been practicing and i'm pretty happy with my progress. I just completed #8 in 2 hours 10 minutes and was happy enough with it to turn it in. I did notice some minor flaws in it in terms of facial anatomy but i'm afraid to get too greedy, go for the A and screw it up in the last few minutes. Anyway i'm aiming for 85 or above.

Do you guys remember your first practicals?

This one is 15% of our grade.
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WOW 4hrs!

Here at UTHSCSA we get 2hrs.
 
Same as UNLV. Or close to it. We had 4 hours to take a written and wax up!
 
I think we use to get 2 hours at NYU for waxups, regardless if they were incisors or molars...
 
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At CASE we get a little less then three hours. I really enjoy waxing. It is a nice break from all of the didactic stuff.
 
DrTacoElf said:
Yeah we get 4 hours for all our waxing projects regardless of which tooth (molar, premolar, canine, incisor). Our next practical is going to be over tooth #5
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Taco, are you waxing out an entire tooth or waxing specific aspects of the tooth that are missing from the preformed model?
 
wow you guys have it good! We had our first dental anatomy practice practical today. We did the mesial half of #9 in about an hour. However, next week is our first graded practical and we do all of #9 and we get 35 minutes to wax, self evaluate, and evaluate a partner's. Then we get evaluated, compare our evaluations to a professor's and then get another 35 minutes to wax it up again (except this second time is worth 4X as many points as the first). Looking ahead to the more complicated teeth such as #30 and #3 it looks as if we get 45 minutes. I don't really think it will be that bad, most of the time you have a pretty good looking tooth after the first 20 minutes or so and the rest of the time you spend dinking around with minor details and causing other minor flaws. Don't complain about only 1.5 hours, be grateful 😀
 
Man from a crown preped die and you still get 4 hours. We didn't even get 4 hours to make the whole tooth from wax and I mean WHOLE tooth from apical tip to the occlusal surface...you read right we waxed the freaking roots!
 
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Dental08?09 said:
Man from a crown preped die and you still get 4 hours. We didn't even get 4 hours to make the whole tooth from wax and I mean WHOLE tooth from apical tip to the occlusal surface...you read right we waxed the freaking roots!
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That's ridiculous :laugh:
 
DrTacoElf said:
Always entire teeth from a crown prepped die.
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I see, down here we're doing wax "restorations" of specific areas of a preformed tooth that have missing aspects, like the cingulum or marginal ridges. I hear we do full tooth restorations using amalgam next fall.
 
DrTacoElf said:
Tomorrow is our first waxing practical. We have 4 hours to do #8. I've been practicing and i'm pretty happy with my progress. I just completed #8 in 2 hours 10 minutes and was happy enough with it to turn it in. I did notice some minor flaws in it in terms of facial anatomy but i'm afraid to get too greedy, go for the A and screw it up in the last few minutes. Anyway i'm aiming for 85 or above.

Do you guys remember your first practicals?

This one is 15% of our grade.
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I don't mean this arrogantly in the least and I am trying not to laugh because I've been there before. But in four hours I think by this point I could wax half an arch into perfect occlusion. Its amazing how good you will be at waxing by next year at this point. Don't stress about this practical. I know easy to say not so easy to do. But in retrospect I stressed about so many thing first year that I now realize were petty and unimportant in the grand scheme. If you don't have waxing down by now it will come with time. The first time I tried to wax I overheated my wax and caught it on fire and the dumped it all over my bench top. 🙄
 
mg777 said:
I see, down here we're doing wax "restorations" of specific areas of a preformed tooth that have missing aspects, like the cingulum or marginal ridges. I hear we do full tooth restorations using amalgam next fall.
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this makes more sense to me than doing a whole tooth btw. at vcu we do the whole tooth, and i don't see at any time in my career having to restore a root..
 
rocknightmare said:
this makes more sense to me than doing a whole tooth btw. at vcu we do the whole tooth, and i don't see at any time in my career having to restore a root..
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Its so we know the anatomy...for endo I guess 🙄
 
you guys are lucky, central incisors dont have much lingual anatomy compared to PM or M, we've already done #6 and #29 for practicals, and we still have #3 and #31 practicals coming up in about a month's time, we get 3 1/2 hours here at Temple, it takes less than 2 hours to wax the tooth to semi-optimal function, but it takes me the same amount of time to fine tune the tooth to "A" quality, its easy once you get the hang of manipulating the wax
 
Escarsega said:
WOW 4hrs!

Here at UTHSCSA we get 2hrs.
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hey escarsega, just curious, how many classes of dent anat & occl do you guys have per wk? do you get free typodont tooth replacements for practice?
 
my dental morphology class hasnt had an A in 10 years...........wish me luck
 
Halitosis said:
hey escarsega, just curious, how many classes of dent anat & occl do you guys have per wk? do you get free typodont tooth replacements for practice?
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We get two lecs. and two labs per week (most weeks anyway). No free typodont teeth here, but we can buy 'em at the bookstore for ~couple $'s.
SE
 
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