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

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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!”

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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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“If you take your hand away, lady, maybe | can get a closer look.”