We do tooth wax ups (sept. - nov.) AND cone waxing (nov. - feb.). By wax ups I mean dripping wax onto a tooth peg (a dental stone tooth with part of it cut away) to build up the tooth mass, and then carving in the anatomy. So, using this technique, we do #9, #23, #27, #5 and #21, #3 and #30. We will finish this section with a practical examination next Thursday in which we have to wax on a 1st molar peg with a 1/4 cut-away.
Our carvers in our instrument roll-up are called "PKT" 1-7. Does anyone know what "PKT" stands for?!? I'd love to know.
By cone waxing I mean that multi-colored stuff everyone else has written about. We'll start cone waxing towards the end of November and take our Final Practical Exam (for cone waxing) on February 24 of next year. We end up doing cone wax-ups of #13, #14, #15, #6, #7, #8, #29, #30, #31.
Some schools, like at UOP and some school in India, do wax block carving instead of wax ups, last time I checked.
We're doing Operative preclinical at the same time. Taking those handpieces to those plastic teeth is a lot harder than it looked when we were observing the real thing as predents isn't it?.... But that's what all this practice is for....
