UCLA School of Dentistry - Impressions Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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and Times to just Remember t w:.s..zee,.-,--- ,efe..., Enter one hundred and six total strangers bewildered, yet eager, to us twelve hundred dollars doesn 't seem meager especially on our very first day. Classes, books, tests and such, this wasn't new. Afternoons in the labs we were even used to but, the hours of waxing were with us to stay. Thru Neuro and BioStat we did complain. To make it in Dentistry we did still aim. United we tackle a project quite large In the Spring we present Fashion Cabaret. The impressions we turned into casts properly trimmed and mounted. Then finals, and at last hurrah our first year ended just after May. Blue cards, burs, brushed and boxes Plus other strange instruments to be sorted and stored. This marks the start of our Sophomore year. PasslFail is threatened by eights, twos, sixes, and fours. Threatened also is long hair even the type of shoes we can wear. Polished amalgams, shiney and bright Dentures with wax-ups so clean and neat Glas IIs' with walls sharp and discrete and margins on fixed preps perfectly clear. Thru practicals, bent wires and pedo projects complete. Those first dentures, how we hoped they would fit. We're now paged as Dr. and that's worth a mint. Of course, oral cancer is what we all secretly fear.

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,U- I -A 1 q.,,,.,- v ,., rf. ..Y., e -, I ,? f.f 'Pit f of JJ, A Junior means partials, patients and treatment plans. It's clinic and classes and charts complete. Reminders to keep yourself and your cubicles neat. Then white cards with number their meaning obsure. Frustration is present, everyday, every dam Every consult, impression and patient consent. Finding instructors for signatures who are not there. Is it all really worth it? We're sometimes not sure. Reduced clinic time seemed only a threat As Seniors we find out how bad it can get. Green cards and new requirements to be met. Have no fear they tell us, you'll graduate yet! They 've created a term Super Senior indeed. More clinic time is really the need. When the time of requirement completion doesn't seem near, cases of Senior Paranoia are visably clear. Chief complaints we have taken, maybe a score. To sell the patient the treatment, we've learned this and more. Mock boards where we're put to the test To stay cool and deliver our best. Forget about partials, foils, bridges, and crowns. Think about jobs, equipment, insurance, and loans. Think about graduate work, family and homes. We've made it this far and we'lI finish the rest. Good luck to each member of the 1976 Class. May each receive State Board Score PASS After four years now with a D.D.S., We're each left to our own individual quest. Mary A. Ditto 1976 il!-Qt 1948 1974 ALFRED H.T. LO H' 75