Recently in OMFS Category
I've managed to knock a couple of requirements off the list. Including all of my OMFS rotations, an endo, and a complete denture. It has been difficult being trapped in OMFS, though, because I haven't been able to see many patients this week. I managed to have the guts to schedule one during my lunch [she never showed], and I saw one of my patients as an emergency. Needless to say, I am looking forward to being done with this rotation and getting back to hammering out more of these requirements.
ps - I'm trying out this trackback thing.
Spending a week in Oral Surgery... made me want to pull my teeth out. Maybe it was just the slow week. Maybe it was that I'm not that interested in pulling teeth [I prefer to save them]. Who knows?
There was a few positives, though: Learning how to suture, and practicing anesthesia technique.
Speaking of anesthesia... I now know that the effects of topical anesthetic prior to injection are simply mental. I intentionaly placed the topical two teeth infront of my injection site [only after I tried to proceed without]. After giving the injection I recieved great compliments on my technique "didn't feel a thing, doc". I wanted to tell the patient that it had nothing to do with the placement of the topical, but I felt like that would be similar to telling a 6 year old that Santa doesn't exist.
