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Dental Trauma Course
May. 18th, 2007 03:23 pmWARNING! Dentist talk ahead!
Yesterday I went to a Dental Trauma course. It was very worth it. Free food and lots of new information about dental trauma. *g* Not that I really like the subject, I just felt rather unprepared to face it before, something that most dentists feel. But because I'm a responsible one, I actually go take on courses and look for the information to realize that before it happens. I actually got a bit interested in the subject. Not that I'm ready to do an endodontics full course *shudders*, because let's say that I still don't have the passion for it, but I'm confident that it's not SO bad. Just hard, difficult, boring, painful (for the dentist too, you know; I actually get sore fingers after the root canal treatments), a literal pain to treat, not to mention the complaints for the McKay type patients, that keep on whining even though you are not even touching the damn tooth.
That's what I hate the most. The first thing a regular dentist (at least the ones that graduated with me) do when the patient starts complaining about pain is check if there is actual pain. To do that we ask "Does it hurt now?" when we are not doing anything and just pretending to touch the location of said pain. Well when the response comes with "Yes it does" we know that we have a McKay type patient, like I'm going to call them henceforth. With them is hard to tell what's real pain and what's not. Do I give them an extra shot, or just tell them to suck it up, whining bastards? Not that I call them that (not out loud that is).
But going back to the original subject, I really liked the course. I also met a couple of guys from college, and naturally, met some old professors (being them the ones promoting the event). The one that I was really looking forward to see again didn't go because he was too busy being honored on another State of the country *sighs sadly*. Good for him of course. He's the greatest professor of the entire college, and that says something when you are referring to one of the most respected institutions of the country. He's a very lovely white-haired grandpa whose patience made me dread this subject much less and get one of my highest grades on all six years of college: a very pretty 8,0. Taking in account my grades on the written tests and with the practical rubber patients, I judge that I actually got a TEN on the clinical performances with the live patients. Something unheard of before, and source of great pride for my class, since most of us had such grade.
Another thing worth of mentioning is my ability to link everyday stuff with Stargate. During the course, actually in the very beginning, there was a number of vids of accidents (the kinds found on youtube) that resulted in dental trauma. There was a couple one that were skateboarding accidents and my fangirl brain soon melted into goo as I immediately thought about Joe Flanigan and was incapable of thinking about anything else for the remainder of the traumatic vids presentation. I just hope that something like those horrid vids never happens to his extremely pretty face.
Yesterday I went to a Dental Trauma course. It was very worth it. Free food and lots of new information about dental trauma. *g* Not that I really like the subject, I just felt rather unprepared to face it before, something that most dentists feel. But because I'm a responsible one, I actually go take on courses and look for the information to realize that before it happens. I actually got a bit interested in the subject. Not that I'm ready to do an endodontics full course *shudders*, because let's say that I still don't have the passion for it, but I'm confident that it's not SO bad. Just hard, difficult, boring, painful (for the dentist too, you know; I actually get sore fingers after the root canal treatments), a literal pain to treat, not to mention the complaints for the McKay type patients, that keep on whining even though you are not even touching the damn tooth.
That's what I hate the most. The first thing a regular dentist (at least the ones that graduated with me) do when the patient starts complaining about pain is check if there is actual pain. To do that we ask "Does it hurt now?" when we are not doing anything and just pretending to touch the location of said pain. Well when the response comes with "Yes it does" we know that we have a McKay type patient, like I'm going to call them henceforth. With them is hard to tell what's real pain and what's not. Do I give them an extra shot, or just tell them to suck it up, whining bastards? Not that I call them that (not out loud that is).
But going back to the original subject, I really liked the course. I also met a couple of guys from college, and naturally, met some old professors (being them the ones promoting the event). The one that I was really looking forward to see again didn't go because he was too busy being honored on another State of the country *sighs sadly*. Good for him of course. He's the greatest professor of the entire college, and that says something when you are referring to one of the most respected institutions of the country. He's a very lovely white-haired grandpa whose patience made me dread this subject much less and get one of my highest grades on all six years of college: a very pretty 8,0. Taking in account my grades on the written tests and with the practical rubber patients, I judge that I actually got a TEN on the clinical performances with the live patients. Something unheard of before, and source of great pride for my class, since most of us had such grade.
Another thing worth of mentioning is my ability to link everyday stuff with Stargate. During the course, actually in the very beginning, there was a number of vids of accidents (the kinds found on youtube) that resulted in dental trauma. There was a couple one that were skateboarding accidents and my fangirl brain soon melted into goo as I immediately thought about Joe Flanigan and was incapable of thinking about anything else for the remainder of the traumatic vids presentation. I just hope that something like those horrid vids never happens to his extremely pretty face.
