Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Our morning Restorative lecture covered making acrylic provisional crowns using the press-form splints we made in lab last week. After the lecture, two professors showed us powerpoint presentations of their practices and practice philosophies. It motivates me to see what I'll be doing 3 years from now.

We moved to lab after the powerpoint presentations and worked on making our acrylic provisionals. I quickly found out that my crown preps from last week weren't reduced enough on the lingual fossa. So, my acrylic impressions were too thin on the ligual side. I spent the next two hours working to get a good impression. I hope I get faster than that.

In the afternoon, we had biochem and anatomy lectures. Our biochem teacher changed for the next two weeks. The odd thing is that the new teacher is a human clone of our first professor. They have the same monotone voice, hand gestures, idiosynchrocies, and physical features . . . but we are assured they are not related.

I stayed after school until 5pm. I'm off to a good start on my new goal. We'll see how long I can manage it.