3-21-2011

My Orthodontics professor told me this morning he really liked the retainer I made. Whew! I went to the lab last night to work on it. While I was polishing it up the lathe hooked one of my wire bends jamming the retainer into my thumb and then throwing the retainer against the metal back splash breaking the corner of it. So, I had to rebuild it and re-polish. Now my thumb is purple and it hurts to hold a pencil but that retainer is done!

So, that left me with the whole lab time to study. Nerdy I know but I love unexpected study time! Granted, in retrospect, I should have stayed in the lab to practice for Fixed. Ah well, tomorrow is another day. OH-and I ran over to the med school library to study and for once it was actually quiet! -That IS amazing. The hospital hill campus makes me crazy-there are no quiet areas to study. All the libraries are loud all the study nooks are filled with people on their phones or talking in groups-and yet this is where the future docs, nurses, pharmacist are supposedly studying

And today's dental school lesson brought to us by our Removable Partial Professor- "Expect Disappointment". Yeah, that sounds about right.