University of Minnesota School of Dentistry - Explorer Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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“Frosting isn’t all that sticks to it.”” ...stop and look. . .cut, stop, look... cut, stop, look AD INFINITUM. With hatchets he hacks and hoes, he scrapes: poosh und drag, poosh und drag ’til the Sun sets in the West. His brow sweats. The patients back aches. He looks from every angle. It’s beautiful, just beautiful; the best buccal amalgam prep ever cut (in about two hours). The neophyte beams as he asks an instructor, “Doctor, | need a prep check, please?” In an all-knowing, fatherly way the doctor strides over to the chair. He leans over with the mirror and explorer and peers into the cavity. . .deep into the cavity. ..at the red eye looking back at him. “No, son,” he utters, ‘‘you don’t need a prep check, you need an Endo check.” “If this long-haired weirdo touches me there again, I'll give him a bust inthe mouth.”’ noe POLE PETS SSOSPURSTES PED DPD BLEED PE PADD DSSS SDNAEED SED DOPED SIDS ON Pee ES LED EERE Snes Oe Le ee ee ES 60 Si a ee re en RO REDE S

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One of the greatest traumas experienced by the Junior is his first patient. Or maybe it’s the other way around. At any rate, the only way to deal with it is to jump right in and get your “feet” wet. After washing his hands ten or fifteen times and numerous rinsings of the mouth, the Junior is ready. He tells the patient he’s a senior (and other lies) to calm him. His confidence at a peak, he forges ahead. After all, shouldn’t life be led like a cavalry charge? After a starting check, anesthesia is adminstered and rubber dam placed (in only 45 minutes). Next is the prep. With hi-speed screaming at ‘‘E” above “high C’’, the Junior lunges ahead, onward and inward. Enamel rods fly and tooth chips flay as the undaunted operator pursues... ae

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Sometimes premedication is contraindicated. “Ah, hello?...ah, excuse me...ah... are you still breathing, sir?” After the trauma of the first buccal amalgam, the Junior moves on to greater tasks: Two and three surfaces of amalgam per period, plastics en masse and then. .. a GOLD FOIL. Five periods are spent on the first onlay, destroying the beautiful supplemental anatomy to make it chew; the first F F for a ridgeless, hard-to-please patient; ganging up with another Junior against a little kid; and more. . . “he made me remove so much stain, | exposed the mother!”