First, the power of making a choice. Taking the afternoon appointment meant deviating from the plan I'd made for today. But I was aware of an inertia in me that was resisting, and I was also aware of a powerful place inside me telling me to act on what I knew was important. Making that choice decisively and without second-guessing it came from that deep peaceful place inside me and it led to a felt experience of peacefulness in that choice.

Second, having the dental appointment fall within the context of an Integrity Day helped me see that it wasn't a distraction, but an important part of my life as a whole. It's an act of self-care that could have been quite easily dismissed as an annoyance. Integrity Day is typically high-value time for me, so I got to experience self-care as high value.

Two other interesting notes:

1. When they told me about the cancellation, they said, "Are you available at 2:30?" and I almost cracked up. That's one of my favorite (and dorkiest) jokes: What time do you go to the dentist? Tooth-hurty. Awesome coincidence.
2. It had been a while since I'd had a dental cleaning so there was lots of painful scraping. This gave me a chance to practice full-body awareness. When my focus was almost exclusively on my mouth, the experience was excruciating -- the pain, the scraping sounds. But when I expanded my focus to include my whole body, it wasn't that bad. Sure, there was still pain in my mouth, but my hands were fine and peaceful, my feet and legs were fine and peaceful, etc. The pain was a tiny part of my experience.

In June 2008, the FDA settled a lawsuit with some consumer groups by agreeing to warn the public about the potential health risks posed by mercury from amalgam fillings, even though no new evidence has emerged linking the amalgam fillings to health problems. While there is no question that mercury vapor is toxic, its release from amalgam fillings is very slow, and I'm not aware of any studies here or abroad showing that it presents a health risk. Most release occurs when fillings are put in, making it more hazardous for the dentists who work with amalgam regularly than for the patients whose teeth are being filled. The only documented problems that have been traced to the fillings are rare, local side effects or allergic reactions. [emphasis added]

For Dr. Weil - the above is from the Q & A area of his website - and others who are "not aware of any studies here or abroad showing that [mercury in fillings] presents a health risk," please see this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this...just for a start.

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Previously: About Those JAMA Mercury Amalgam Studies the MSM Keeps Citing

Also, with most dental work, you're not in much - if any - pain afterwards. You're more apt to feel just sort of wiped out. But this is one of the signs that the mouth has undergone significant trauma from the dental drill, syringes and other tools - and that your body is recovering.

In some cases, there might well be pain - something Dr. Verigin discusses at length in the most recent issue of Biosis. Repeated oral trauma and stress just from dental care can sometimes kick off a cascade of systemic effects. Left untreated - or inappropriately treated - this can lead to dysfunction and illness that eventually affects the whole body. We have seen it time and again from new clients who seek relief from long-standing oral and systemic health problems.

Because of this, we have always recommended taking the most conservative approach possible to dental work. As we say time and again, the best dental work is the least dental work. The best teeth are your own, and they can be beautiful without subjecting them to bleaching, veneers and other sources of dental stress and trauma.

The flipside to this approach is illustrated in this recent essay from the Mail on Sunday. Rather casually seeking a quick fix for a Hollywood smile - porcelain veneers - the author wound up with a great deal of pain and malocclusion (the teeth not coming together properly). This state of affairs is one we all too often see lead to fatigue, mood and emotional problems, and pain throughout the head, face, neck and back - problems that the author herself describes experiencing. Notably, this is all in addition to the initial trauma experienced in the teeth when they were ground down for placement of the veneers in the first place.

It's definitely a cautionary tale...

See also:
Too Much Dentistry: The Adverse Effects of Veneers, Fillings and Crowns

In a very promising preliminary study, Miller and colleagues found that the pattern of gene expression differed between caregivers of family members with cancer relative to a matched group of individuals who did not have this type of life stress....

Gregory Miller, Ph.D., corresponding author, explains...that, although "caregivers have similar cortisol levels as controls, their cells seem to be 'hearing' less of this signal. In other words, something goes awry in caregivers' white blood cells so they are not able to 'receive' the signal from cortisol that tells them to shut down inflammation."

Studies Help Show How Handling Stress Improves Health (Mayo Clinic Stress Blog)

We all know that stress can have a profound impact on our health, well-being, and the quality of our lives. We have each learned that it is not the problems that can kill us but our reaction to those problems. Two exciting developments from recent studies clearly underscore why we need to be in control of our lives and handle stress in a creative way. Please read on.

Burning Incense Linked to Respiratory Cancers (Reuters)

In a study of more than 61,000 ethnic Chinese living in Singapore who were followed for up to 12 years, the investigators found a link between heavy incense use and various respiratory cancers.

Seeing Through Tooth Decay (Medical News Today)

The researchers at RMK engineering college have now developed an X-ray image analysis technique that reveals the pixel intensities at different X-ray wavelengths, much like the histogram analysis of images by a high-specification digital camera. Siva Kumar explains that the software reveals that the X-ray histogram and spectrum are very different depending on whether the teeth X-rayed are normal or exhibiting the early stages of decay. The researchers found that in the X-ray histogram the pixel intensities are concentrated in different ranges depending on degree of decay.

The technique could be very useful for dental clinicians, the researchers explain, and could be extended using neural networks to automatically identify the different stages of dental caries.

Sticks and Stones: A New Study on Social and Physical Pain (PhysOrg)

According to some researchers, words may pack a harder punch that we realize. Psychologists Zhansheng Chen and Kipling D. Williams of Purdue University, Julie Fitness of Macquarie University, and Nicola C. Newton of the University of New South Wales found that the pain of physical events may fade with time, while the pain of social occurrences can be re-instantiated through memory retrievals.

Eating Less, Eating Local and Eating Better Could Slash US Energy Use, CU Study Finds (Cornell Chronicle, via Organic Consumers Association)

"We could reduce the fossil energy used in the U.S. food system by about 50 percent with relatively simple changes in how we produce, process, package, transport and consume our food," said David Pimentel, professor emeritus of ecology and agriculture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell.

Dr. Gary Applebaum, M.D.

I’m pleased to announce we have a new teammate on board Mature Market Experts. Dr. Gary Applebaum, M.D., is not just one of the nation’s premier experts on geriatrics; he has also been a valued friend over the last 16 years.

I met Gary at Erickson Retirement Communities, where he was the first physician hired by Erickson to practice at Charlestown, its initial Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) in Catonsville, MD; at that time housing 400 seniors. Over the past 16 years, he was responsible for growing a one–physician practice into the Erickson Health system that currently provides comprehensive health and wellness services to 18,000 seniors residing in 16 Erickson communities in 8 states. For his efforts, Gary was named Geriatrics Clinician of the Year by the American Geriatrics Society in 1994 recognizing the unique nature of the system of care developed at Erickson.

So you can see why I’m excited about having the good doctor on board. When he blogs about the mature market, he knows what he is talking about (Gary testified at a congressional hearing for the United States House of Representatives, Select Committee on Aging’s subcommittee on long-term care).

As Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Erickson Retirement Communities, Gary developed and managed the largest group practice (Erickson Health) of geriatrics providers in America. Erickson Health is recognized for providing care that is Accessible, Appropriate and Affordable for seniors. Currently, Erickson Health is staffed by 55 physicians and 30 advance practice nurses providing over 50,000 primary care visits/year with a budget that exceeds $20 million a year.

He also developed and provided medical direction to all services of the Erickson Health system including but not limited to: skilled nursing care, assisted living, rehabilitation services (PT, OT, SLP), pharmacy services, mental health, home health, podiatry, dentistry, numerous medical specialties, emergency medical services, and health clubs. Virtually all medical needs short of tertiary acute care are available at a fully developed Erickson community.

Gary lead the installation of Centricity (GE Health Care), a primary care electronic health record system, in less than a year at 10 practices in 7 states including data entry of over 10,000 patients’ charts. To accomplish this, the team needed to train over 200 providers and staff members to use system. Erickson’s practices are now paperless including all medical documentation, as well as prescriptions and billing. I have long considered electronic medical records essential to improving the U.S. health care system forward.

Most importantly, Gary loves seniors. Currently, he continues to practice medicine at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital. He is also a partner and investor in an early stage venture capital fund, Nobska Ventures. In addition, he recently joined the team at TR Mann Consulting.

As many of you know, I have long loved Tom Peter’s rants on what’s wrong with American health care. The beauty of Gary is that he brings Tom’s anger and adds gasoline to it with a powerful dose of insider’s knowledge and real solutions to make things better.

This is going to be fun!

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27 Αυγούστου 2008

Νέος ευρωπαϊκός νόμος, κάνει ευκολότερη για τους Άγγλους ασθενείς να ξεπεράσουν τις δυσκολίες της εύρεσης ενός οδοντιάτρου του NHS (ΕΣΥ) και να ψάξουν για οδοντιατρική περίθαλψη εκτός συνόρων. (για περισσότερες πληροφορίες για τον οδοντιατρικό τουρισμό κάντε κλικ εδώ)

Σύμφωνα με την Androula Vassiliou, Επίτροπος Υγείας του Ευρωπαϊκού Κοινοβουλίου, οι Άγγλοι καταναλωτές θα μπορούν σύντομα να επισκεφθούν μια άλλη Ευρωπαϊκή χώρα για οδοντιατρική θεραπεία και να ζητήσουν το κόστος αυτής από το NHS.

H κ. Vassiliou είχε υποσχεθεί αυτή την πρόταση για τη διασυνοριακή υγειονομική περίθλαψη όταν έγινε Επίτροπος Υγείας για το Ευρωπαϊκό Κοινοβούλιο, νωρίτερα αυτό το χρόνο.

Επίσης πρόσθεσε: "Εκτιμάται πως μόνο 1% των ασθενών εγκαταλείπουν την χώρα για περίθαλψη εκτός συνόρων. Δεν είναι ένα ποσό αυτό που μπορεί να βάλει σε κίνδυνο τα εθνικά συστήματα υγείας."

Η οδοντιατρική εκτός συνόρων είναι συχνά φθηνότερο από ότι σε ιδιωτικό οδοντιατρείο στην Αγγλία, αλλά οι τελευταίες κινήσεις που κάνουμε θα την κάνουν ακόμα πιο φθηνή.

Δεν θα καλύπτονται βέβαια τα έξοδα της λεγόμενης αισθητικής οδοντιατρικής, όπως η λεύκανση των δοντιών. Μια πρόσφατη αναφορά του Κέντρου Πληροφοριών του ΝHS, αναφέρει πως ο αριθμός των ατόμων που θεραπεύονται από οδοντιάτρους του NHS έπεσε κατά 1.100.000 μεταξύ του 2007 - 2008.

Having a laser in one's office may convey the notion that the dental office is high tech and everything the dentist does is up to date.  That is true.  Laser is after all high tech equipment.  But the question one needs to ask is how much  laser dentistry is better than conventional dentistry.

Some people have said that  a laser machine in a dental office is nothing more than a glorified "Electro-surge," an electiric surgery blade.  Basically they both use energy generated either by laser of electricity to cut through tissues.  If you are a dentist, you could read the research articles about laser.  If you are not a dentist, then you may want to ask your dentist about what scientific researches have found out about laser in dentistry.  You may also want to know that a dental laser machine costs quite a bit of money.

1) Bring a Padfolio with you in order to take notes in during financial presentations and such. Don't forget to bring something to write with.

2) Prepare some questions to ask your interviewer about the school/the curriculum/extracurricular activities. Chances are the interviewers will not just sit there and grill you with question after question. Most of my interviews had moments where I was able to ask questions, which in turn led to lengthy discussions of various topics. It is good to ask questions, even if you already know the answer, for it shows that you are interested in the school. Also, it helps to pass the time, and makes the interview seem shorter.

3) Dress to kill. Seriously. Get a suit if you are a guy. A ladies suit if you are a girl. Do not show up in Slacks and a Sport Coat. You will stand out, but not in a good way.

4) Do not chew gum. Use breath mints if you have to, but make sure they are the kind that aren't chewable, like altoids. You might have to wait a while for your interview (it's not always first thing in the morning) so if you are chewing gum, you might just forget that you are chewing it and walk into the interview still chewing it without even realizing it. This is not showing the interviewers that you communicate well.

5) Get to know the other people there with you, for they might be your future classmates. Due to that possibility, do not piss them off either.

6) Most importantly, relax and try to seem like you are having a good time being there. All of the interviews that I went on weren't stressful at all.

Good Luck.

Finally after so long - here are the homo sapiens of the night... They say pictures are worth a thousand words, so there's no need for me to say much la ya - since I'm going to upload loadsssss (wah, punny!!), which is equivalent to LOADS of words liao. I wish Perio essay was that easy T-T...

Wahlao, took me ages to insert those freaking pics... Phew.. Pharm pubcrawl to go >.< Don't expect a post anytime soon lolololol...

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Ever since the FDA's turnabout on the health risks of mercury fillings, we've seen a steady stream of articles on the topic, such as this one posted this week at US News and World Report. Like so many other MSM articles, it cites a pair of studies published in 2006:

A large 2006 study found no statistically significant differences in IQ, motor function, or memory in children who had numerous mercury-containing amalgams. It did find that kids with amalgams had significantly higher mercury levels in their urine, but researchers observed no problems in kidney function that could have resulted from mercury poisoning. Another study, published in February in the Journal of the American Dental Association, supports the 2006 findings. Its Portuguese authors found no significant differences in brain function between a group of children whose cavities had been treated with amalgams and a group treated with composite resin material.

Note that the information about the second study is wrong. The study referenced was also published in JAMA, not JADA, and its authors included six US- and five Portugal-based researchers.

In any event, both studies have been cited time and time again, as if they were the final word on mercury safety. They are not.

Dr. Verigin commented on these studies in the May 2006 issue of Biosis:

In both current mercury studies, the researchers annually plotted their subjects' urinary mercury levels. For the first two years, as expected, the results showed a steady increase in the mercury levels of the amalgam group children. Then the results turned strange. These elevated mercury levels actually dropped until they were almost the same as those of the mercury-free children.

How could this be?

Writing in Clinical Preventive Dentistry, Chew, Soh, Lee and Yeoh noted that each average sized 1 gram amalgam filling contains 500,000 micrograms of mercury - about 53% of the total volume, on average. Through research, they concluded that with such a filling emitting a toxic 5 micrograms of mercury per day - emissions generated by chewing and grinding - it would take 100,000 days for all the mercury to be vaporized. As they say, "Do the math!" (Answer: about 274 years!) And how long is the average lifespan of an amalgam filling according to insurance standards? About 10 years.

So why the drop in mercury levels? The kidneys are the primary route of excretion here. I surmise that they are taking a major hit, becoming less effective at removal. I would expect more mercury to be stored. After all, the urinary mercury levels were measured without the intake of chelating agents, thus making the data unreliable. Moreover, recent research shows that over 90% of excreted mercury goes through the fecal rather than urinary route.

Most likely, the children's basic regulative systems became less flexible, more rigid. The autoregulatory pathways - liver, kidneys, skin, mucous membranes - all take part in the excretion of any toxin, including mercury. However, the detoxification process depends on variables such as genetics, gender and nutritional status. Thus, some people are less able to excrete mercury than others, even if they live in the same city, region or country, as in the current studies. Each will have a different diet with vastly different antioxidant and mineral intakes, as well as many of the chelators of mercury found in high quality protein.

A better measure of the effects of mercury would involve the immune system - something that was not mentioned in either study. The literature is packed with research on this. Mercury and other heavy metals with negative magnetic charges are powerful immune system suppressors. Under such conditions, the friendly microbes in our tissues undergo drastic changes. The major scavenging cells and immune response recognition cells, such as macrophages, have a lessened ability to render antigens harmless.

But instead of looking at this, the researchers focused on IQ.

They also focused on otherwise healthy children, even as the Centers for Disease Control report that 1 in 6 American children have some form of neurological disorder such as autism. Children so affected do not effectively excrete mercury. To exclude them - the individuals most susceptible to mercury toxicity - from the study is yet another major failing.

That said, it is my conviction that neither study as designed should have been performed at all. If living beings needed to be tested, then the experiments should have been done on some other form of primate, not human children. To subject unsuspecting children and their parents to such experimentation is the very definition of cruelty.

I question the ethics of these studies. I wonder if these researchers even remember the humanitarian motto of our profession: Doctor, do no harm unto your patient.

You can read the rest of Dr. Verigin's commentary here.

We also recommend you check out the Toxic Mercury Amalgam site, which contains a wealth of solid information on the problems mercury fillings can cause, as well as safe and reasonable measures you can take to have them removed and replaced with nontoxic, biocompatable materials. The free report "How to Avoid the Dangers of Having Your 'Silver' Mercury Amalgam Fillings Removed" (PDF) is a must-read for anyone considering the procedure.

You may also be interested in checking out a blog we recently discovered: The Adrenal Fatigue Nightmare. It's written by a 24 year old woman who was diagnosed with adrenal fatigue and is now chronicling the process of having her mercury fillings removed. We wish her the best and look forward to reading of her progress...

When you are intellection of having some identify of aesthetical medicine done, the prototypal travel is to encounter a eligible dentist, on that is a member of the AACD (American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry) this module support to secure that he is substantially versed in every areas of aesthetical dentistry.

When interviewing doable choices for a dentist, communicate to wager his portfolio of before and after photos of preceding patients, this module provide you an intent of the calibre of the impact that is existence performed. Always communicate for references from these patients, communicate them how they see most the impact that has been finished for them. Finally encounter discover most some activity that has been complete since the dentist has been practicing dentistry. It is essential that activity is kept up to fellow with the advances that are existence prefabricated in this field.

The most ordinary modify of this identify of medicine is the ingest of braces. Braces are mostly locate on juvenile children first at around geezerhood 12, by a eligible orthodontist. The Atlantic of odontology deals with the straightening and realigning of teeth. This communication not exclusive beautifies the smile, but by realigning the representative odontology crapper also eliminated forthcoming problems of the jaw.
The identify of aesthetical medicine that is more ordinary with adults includes set whitening, the positioning of veneers and bonding. These procedures are solely for aesthetical reasons and hit no upbeat benefits related with them; however, the emotive benefits from these types of machine crapper be huge.

Teeth lightening is ontogeny in popularity cod in conception to the availability of at bag systems. These systems attain it doable to intend a whiter, brighter grinning without the outlay and difficulty of temporary a dentist office. There is also the choice of in duty bleaching, this is finished low the oversight of the dentist and mostly takes most an distance per apiece application.

It is owlish to enquire with your dentist as to which lightening creation is correct for your teeth, as not every set verify to bleaching in the aforementioned manner. Your dentist module support you end which identify is correct for your set as substantially as for your budget.

Bonding is finished to either bushel a chipped or unsmooth tooth, to counterbalance an unclothed stem or for strictly aesthetical reasons. In some of these cases, the agency or set to be aerated are clean and then hit an printmaking resolution applied. This resolution module support the polymer flower to stick with the tooth. There are individual assorted colours of polymer acquirable to correct the colouration of the teeth. The polymer is then formed so that the newborn set hit the desirable attendance to them; the polymer module then accustom and eventually be lustrous to a happen so that they correct the rest of the set in the mouth.

Veneering set is decent progressively favourite as a artefact to counterbalance up fillings, chipped teeth, discoloured set or gaps in the teeth. A coat is a anorectic porcelain bomb that fits direct over the agency in discourse and is secured in place. The veneers crapper also provide the attendance of straightforward set with discover the instance that is participating with braces; however, they are the more pricey of the digit options.

Linda histrion writes on a difference of subjects including kinsfolk matters, individualized enrichment, cosmetic dentistry, and breast augmentation/reduction surgery.

Root canal treatment involves cleaning away the bacteria and toxins - imagine flushing out termites from an 'infected' tree.  Then a filling material is placed into the hollow root chamber to prevent further bacteria getting back in.  Just as a dead tree doesn't fall out of the ground, a 'dead tooth' doesn't fall out either.

Here is a picture of an infected front tooth - the dark area around the root is the extent of the infection.  The white areas are all filling - basically this tooth has been filled to death from larger and larger fillings.

The next 2 pictures show the root treatment the day it was completed and then 12 months later when the bone has healed.

Most teeth need a crown to protect the seal and rebuild the tooth due to the damage from the original decay, large filling, or trauma.

Myth: pain - more people fall asleep during root treatment for me than any other procedure.  If the tooth is properly numb then it is a time consuming but uneventful procedure.  Some people may feel pain if the tooth is acutely inflammed and infected - and this may mean a temporary sedative dressing for a few weeks and treating when the infection has settled.  With patience and a gentle technique it is not a difficult procedure.

Myth - I had root treatment and the tooth was pulled out anyway. - some treatments do fail.  A large number fail from not sealing over with a crown - the filling compromise leaked or cracked.  Some teeth should be done by a specialist - an endodontist, if the roots appear really twisted or hard to clean thoroughly.

The most important thing to know is that root treatments become the only option a dentist has to save your tooth if you wait until you are getting pain before you come to the dentist.  Your choices in dentistry are:

1 - small cavity found during check-up means a small filling needed

2- leave the hole a while a large filling and risks that the tooth will need a crown or root canal treatment 5 or 10 years down the track

3- leave the hole till it starts getting sensitive means a large filling that may or may not work and probable root treatment between 1 week and a few years in the future

4 -leave until a throbbing toothache means root treatment now to save the tooth, and it may not go numb and could hurt more and need a dressing

5 - leave till the tooth rots further and pain goes - only alternative is extraction and risks of serious infection.  Although rare people still do get hospitalised and even die from dental infection.

It is an old but true saying - "A stich in time saves nine"

I found a few links that answers queries most parents have about maintaining good oral hygiene for newborns. Thought I would share it with you guys. Here they are:

http://www.aapd.org/foundation/hints.asp

http://www.uihealthcare.com/topics/dental/dent4376.html

http://www.aapd.org/publications/brochures/specialcare.asp

http://www.ada.org/public/topics/decay_childhood_faq.asp

http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/pubs/jada/patient/patient_56.pdf

http://www.ada.org/public/media/releases/0701_release01.asp

I ran a search for "standard of care definition." Let's see what our highest ranking page has to say about the standard of care.....

Standard of care:

1. A diagnostic and treatment process that a clinician should follow for a certain type of patient, illness, or clinical circumstance. Adjuvant chemotherapy for lung cancer is "a new standard of care, but not necessarily the only standard of care." (New England Journal of Medicine, 2004)

2. In legal terms, the level at which the average, prudent provider in a given community would practice. It is how similarly qualified practitioners would have managed the patient's care under the same or similar circumstances. The medical malpractice plaintiff must establish the appropriate standard of care and demonstrate that the standard of care has been breached.

The standard of care is not a concrete concept with a singular interpretation, yet many people continue to employ it as though it were. It is a poor abstraction of the logic of average practitioners that can only actually be applied inside a courtroom. Outside the courthouse, it is nothing more than a legal bogeyman, and has absolutely no place dictating care.

Clinical decisions should rely on a knowledge of the literature, your materials, and a history of clinical experiences. Anyone who enacts real clinical judgment sees the standard of care for what it really is, a pathetic euphemism for a cookbook style approach to health care that is accepted by average doctors who lack the desire to achieve excellence in their field.

So, this morning, Blair was able to squeeze me in to get my teeth cleaned at the school. I have to admit that I was a little bit nervous, but for no good reason. Blair was awesome, and I'm now convinced that they ARE teaching him something!

For so long, this life that Blair had been living what with "school" and "clinic" had been a little bit surreal. I mean, how was I supposed to know that he was really in there practicing dentistry when I'd drop him off at the front door? Well, it turns out that it's for real, Blair is going to be a dentist, and is already quite good, if I do say so myself. Just check out my pearly whites that he cleaned so nicely! (ignore the baby fat...hopefully we'll have that taken care of here soon...)

It was also really nice to be able to put some faces with the names of people that he's talked about over and over again. Like Brenda.

Cami hung out with Brenda, the scheduler, while Blair worked on me. She wanted to see the dentist, too, but we told her she had to wait until her first tooth came in. She did get to sit in the chair for a second, though, just for fun :).

So, it turns out that I have quite the cavity. I guess we'll be making another trip to the dentist in the near future. At least Blair gets to use me as a competency. Yay for caries! (is that how that's spelled??)

Front and back images of Johnson & Johnson REACH brand dental floss purchased in West Tokyo.

Product not rated (but worked well).

dulu, gw kirain masalah gw cuma dari dent doang, ternyata.. hahah,, engga!

well...buat masalah gw yg laen2 itu, ga penting,, males mikirinNya, penting sih, tapi kan belajar lebih penting (iya ga??!!) heheh

sejak minggu lalu, gw banyak pikiran, abisnya thesis sialan gw belom selese2.. terus, gw uda bikin chapter 4, analysis, taunya guru gw bilang itu salah semua.. gw kaget, tapi gw uda pernah bilang ke dia, gw tau itu salah,, makanya gw minta tolong dia perbaiki,trus guru gw bilang "you're totally clueless of what you're doing"

ok.. gw tau ini akibat ga pernah makan pagi n tidur kemaleman, jadinya gw tambah bego.. but i knw God will help me =) (percaya Tuhan!!) hehe.. gw bakal berusaha berubah deh

abis itu.. gw ada masalah yg bikin gw kecewaaaaa banget, bukan soal pelajaran ato cowo..haha, tapi gw ga mo mikirin itu,, gara2 itu, gw tidur kemaleman deh dari malem minggu ampe senen malem..

trus tadi di dent gw uda nyiapin report yang banyaknya minta ampun, taunya guru gw telat, ga jadi report deh

abis kelas gw ada pasien ampe jam 12 siang, trus gw makan siang.. pas jam 1 gw balik ke dent,, mo ada pasien, jam 3 juga bakalan ada.. tapi.. gw bener2 ngantuk.. dan pasien gw ga dateng2..

tiba2 pas gw lg ngantuk2 nya.. si Jin keluar dari clinic langsung neriakin gw, katanya "wenny, please clean your working area", karna gw lagi ngantuk, gw emosi banget gw bilang "what?? (dengan suara agak keras) i cleaned it alredy" tapi dia tuh maksa2 terus, akhirnya gw masuk ke clinic, dan ternyata gw cuma disuruh ngebersihin darah (keciil banget) di waste receptacle d dental chair,, (well, emang harus dibersiin sih, tapi gw lg ngantuukkk!!! ahh) abis itu, pas gw bersihin, masa dia bilang itu kurang bersih, gw gataw ya dia ngerjain gw ato apa, tapi gw kesseeeeelll banget, kenapa sih tuh orang ga bisa diem sekali aja kl ktm gw?!

akhirnya gw diem aja, gw ambil barang2 gw yg laen, gw buang gloves, mask ama bib ke tempat sampah terus gw cuci barang2 gw n gw keluar dr clinic,

tiba2.. si J manggil gw lagi, katanya "wenny, please check your things, did u see an acrylic bur?" (acrylic bur itu kecil banget dan harganya 1 biji 900 peso, gw punya pernah hilang dan sekarang gataw dmana) terus gw bilang "hello?!" tapi gw check juga (barang2 gw uda di sterilizer) dan acrylic bur itu gak ada.

ternyata.. acrylic bur nya punya grace dan grace kasi pinjem ke reuel tapi jin ngambil itu dari reuel karna mo dikasi ke chris, trs J tinggalin acrylic bur (AB) nya di sink tempat barang2 gw yg belom dicuci tadi..

karna gw uda kesel banget, gw diem aja, trus si J malah ngelewatin gw trus bilang "very scary" gimana gw ga emosiii??!!!

pokonya..pada akhirnya si J nyari2 acrylic bur itu ampe uda tertekan banget,, dan akhirnya dia menemukanya di tong sampah.. bersama dengan barang2 gw...hahahah.. well gw seneng uda bisa ngerjain dia, tapi gw buang nya ga sengaja loh (suerrrr!!!! hehehe) abisnya kecil banget, ga keliatan.. terus dia bilang "why are u doing this to me??" gw bilang "i'm sorry, i didn't mean to"

abis itu, jam 2-an gitu gw tidur2an d dental chair rum.5, taunya.. ketiduran, ampe jam 3.30.. yawda bangun2 gw ke library dent, ngobrol sama doc.carpio (guru favorite gw!!) katanya gw ga jadi exam, tapi assignmentnya buanyak! terus.. gw nanya ke dia "why do we have to do thesis???" then she said "becos u want to graduate" then i said "why do we have to defend r thesis?" she answered "becos you want to graduate" OMG!!! gw gataw mo bilang apa.. apicoectomy datanglaaaahhh!!! anterior bridge, datanglaaaahhh!!!

berhubung flashdisk gw patah, gw dikasi flashdisk ama doc.mabunga (thank God) berkat gw uda banyak banget di dent,, i got everything i need at the right time, Tuhan itu emang baik banget,, jadi gw ga bakalan takut lagi.. gw tau kok gw pasti tamat, tapi gataw kapan =)

abis itu, tadi barusan , gw d e-mail hasil chapter 4 sama suaminya grace (padahal hari ini tuh gw uda putus asa, ampe tidur2, males2, dan gw rencana ga jadi defense bulan ini),,, aduuh.. baik banget tuh orang.. gw stress jadinya.. makasih Tuhan =)

gw sayang sama temen2 gw ama guru2 gw di dentistry!

God is always making a way for me. Thank You Lord =)

Today is the day that the Placing Results of the Student Selection Exam were out and guess what, it started with a joke but seems like I will become a dentist. I made it into Erciyes University Dentistry Faculty.

It's common knowledge that studying dentistry is way the most pocket-burning one. I'll see about that by first-hand experiences.

As far as I heard from an older bro who studies dentistry, you always keep asking yourself during your the very first months of the first year "why dentistry? why not a damn normal engineering but dentistry?", but after that you start being fellow-fellow with patients, eat your toast in cafeteria with them, they tell you about their family problems, you give them advices, blah blah ..

The lessons start by a hard Latin in them and without even realizing what's going on, you go into the preclinic laboratory to make teeth from soap. Your eyes do get used to soap time after time although you'll have to walk around with red eyes like you just cried, but some time later you'll also walk around like you're the best sculptor in the country. "Teeth?! Come on! I can make a bicycle out of soap!" .. like this.

Second year, people will stay a meter away from you since you'll smell like you have bathed in an acryl cauldron and you'll also have to make your homeworks windows wide-open in the middle of a cold winter putting cloth on cloth on you, because the other people in the house won't be so happy with the smell (they'll be studying clean engineerings, ofcourse they'd be annoyed) .. You'll write lyrics comprising from "I hate it, I hate it, dentistry? Why is it? Why is it? I hate it, la la la la laaa, I hate this .." while you'll be making your homework for tomorrow in the middle of the night at 3 a.m. And it will depend on the mood your professor would be in, that either he'll accept your work or simply say a "do it again" .. You'll start singing that song again.

Third year would be like the second one. You'll just develop this song of yours into a better one with a better rythim.

You'll spend your time running around trying to find a patient to use not to fail the exam at your fourth year. By the phone you'll beg them to come when you're about to have an important exam and your patient is having tea with her middle-aged friends at an at-home day.

Fifth year is the last one. After graduation you stay at home in front of tv watching it like an idiot since you're in an empitiness, not knowing what to do but it won't take so long and you'll find a job somehow inshaallah.

The end of the story.

Wait for me Kayseri.

May Allah (c.c.) help us achieve the best.

k.t. from Turkiye, Istanbul, arigatou minna-san!

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Now we have a report that nine-year-old Lin Miaoke, who sang Ode to the Motherland at the Olympic opening ceremony, actually didn't sing it:

The recording to which Lin mouthed along on Friday was by the even younger Yang Peiyi. It seems that Yang's uneven teeth, while unremarkable in a seven-year-old, were considered potentially damaging to China's international image.

Ok, finally pull my ass together to do a proper post. So the story was that I had my half BDS last Saturday. More bout that later. It is my blog afterall, so it cannot be me if there ain't any complain bout my studies lolol. I had my first complex pros session that day and did I tell you it was sibeh damn hard? Omg. I thought I did a very good job on the labial surface. Considering it's my first one la. But when it comes to palatal. OMFG. So freaking ugly! I ruined the entire prep T-T. From the front it still looks good. But once the mirror comes along....zzz. This is what we call 'yuen tai yat zi fa, kan tai *** *** ** **' you fill in the blanks la. I cannot bring myself to speak such vulgarities hahaha. It's too extreme for my standard. Plus I hate scolding other people's mother. They're like innocent ok, why drag them into the context. Even though it's a dead extracted tooth we're talking about here...

Anyway. Then I finally started my clinical radiography sessions. It was kind of boring. OPG. PAs. OPG. OPG. Another PA. OPG. Zzzz. Until this girl comes along. For ortho consultation. So we get to do the 'ALL' of radiographs I think? PAs, BWs, OPG, Lat ceph and hand wrist. So cool! Anyway, one last session to go on Friday. Here's to hoping it all goes well....

So back to the Half BDS. It was to mark the fact that BDS Class of 2010 has reached halfway mark of the course. Two and a half years down. Woo hooooooo~~~~ Another two and a half more to go. Sighs. But at least we got by it. So yea. The night was very fun! Was worth the money definitely. It was held in Ayers House, right next to Wendy's apartment lol. Easy for her neh.

So now to the pictures.... There's like thousands of them haha, so please be patient. Will need to do them slowly, especially when I am pinching other people's internet haha. Here we go for the arbitary and edible things.

Choc profiterols

The food was soooooo yummy. Btw,I didn't eat all that la. I shared with Yinan so that we can tried all the food in the menu. It didn't really matter in the end, cos they're all good ^^. Then there's free flow of drinks. Can't get better than that lol. I tried to drink the money back hahaha. But nola, I do care about my liver thank you very much. Plus don't want to get alcohol intoxication like some girl that night. Or even puke 3 times like how yet another girl did. Or sleep in the bar like cough cough* asdf *cough cough. It's not worth it la. Supposed to enjoy it, not ruin it. Plus people who get drunk always ruin it for others. And I so don't wanna be one of those people, very selfish lor. No offence to you asdf.

Anyway. So that's it for today. Stay tune for more pictures. Of homo sapiens next time =) Promise!