SmileSaver

With clinic finally reopening this coming week, it’s time for me to get motivated and finish up some treatment planning! 😅🤫
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Here you can see me working on a radiographic interpretation for one of my comprehensive patients! Essentially, I’m looking for what is normal and what is abnormal in the X-rays in order to help me during treatment planning for this patient. ⚡️📷
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The first time I ever looked critically at an X-ray, I found it really difficult to figure out what’s going on...it just seemed like a bunch of shadows 🥵 even though I’m in 3rd year, I’m still not an expert by any means, but I’m slowly getting more comfortable🤞🏻🙂
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I hope you are all doing well! It’s been pretty uneventful recently since clinic was closed in December for exams and in January because of lockdown, but I’m happy we’re finally going back. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or comments, I love hearing from you! As always, don’t forget to smile!!! 🤩😁
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Just like that, another week has come and gone. I hope everyone had a good one🤗
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One of the tasks we had this week was to continue working on our night guard projects. Here you can see my partner using a facebow on me. Many of you are probably wondering what in the world that is and what it is doing on my face. 😂 A facebow is an apparatus that allows us to mount the upper cast on an articulator in the same 3D space as it is found on the patient. The series of metal bars in front of my face is the device that allows this transfer of information in the form of a facebow record. The whole reason we need this information is so the night guard can be made as accurately as possible in the lab, without the patient (me) even being present! Pretty cool stuff 😌⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I hope everyone has a great weekend! Please let me know if you have any comments, questions, or any other feedback! Stay sanitized and as always, don’t forget to smile!! 🤩🤩⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀