Which Schools do Wax-Ups
Started by EHA DDS
I find the lab time adequate to finish my projects, however, many of my classmates need 2 to 3 times more time out of class to finish. It depends on the person and will vary quite a bit. It is a skill that most people have never done before and can take a large amount of time to become proficient at it....on the other hand, some people pick it up very fast.
I had 2 come back to the lab to finsih my stone cast a feew weeks ago and recently to finish a diagnostic and regluar wax-up. Not fun but you get to practice without the lab stress. There are some people in my lab bench that have created beautiful wax-ups. For people like me it will just take some practice...but that's normal.
Working after hours can be annoying since it eats into your already limited free time, but having the lab mostly empty makes for a much less stressful & hectic work environment. I personally don't mind at all unless I have other demands pressing on my time outside school.
ecdoesit said:
Hahaha,
Today we did an RPD assignment of an Interm RPD with clasps on a microstone cast of a VIADE model. We started in lab at 10am (after 2 hours of lecture) and I left the lab with a completed wax up with set teeth at 10pm.
12 hours of lab, man, dental school is great but it can be a drag!
-Mike
At San Antonio we wax up all the anteriors -- #6-11; #4, #3, #30, and do a group function exercise from 11-14. It's not much fun, but better than complete dentures.
Do I understand correctly that you can work on your waxups as late as you want? At Creighton, ours are timed and have to be done in lab. But the grading here, is as random as any.
Only if it's a class project. For a practical exam, we're timed at IUSD.Omahahahaha said:
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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....
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....
Omahahahaha said:
We actually do wax "carve downs", I don't know why I said wax-ups.
Jack Worthing said:
Everybody uses PKTs--invented by the master waxer Peter K. Thomas.
ItsGavinC said:
Truly amazing. Thanks Gavin.
I'll add Mr. Thomas to my list of dental greats of old. He's number 2 on my compiled list so far, the first being G.V. Black -- "Extension for Prevention!"
