A super lousy day

Alright,

I had a bad day.

1.Patient decided not to come for dental treatment today. She's most probably never going to come back. And i am like halfway to finishing up her master impression to start the wax block to do her denture.

2. Had to call in another patient at the very last minute. And that includes checking my denture design, mounting up my primary casts and getting them checked.

3. Got a grade 2 for all my denture assignments (4 is the best, 3 is the usual grade). I got 2. and many of them. shitty.

4. Tried to take impressions for my patient. Only for one jaw. Tok me AN HOUR and i still couldn't get it. My assessor took for me. Oh well, It sat there for a while ( most prob have some distortion by then when i poured the stone.) Had a hard time from the assessor. Wasn't scolded, but i am sure she thinks i'm the lousiest student she's ever seen.

5. When i was pouring the stone, it set prematurely. I had to wash out the stone and guess what, it has hardened. SO bo bian, need to remove carefully under running water. Impression material most probably absorbed water by then. DISTORTION

6. Placed it on the bench top and went to get the stone powder. Partner walks in and knocks it onto the floor accidentally. Impression = 100% distortion and confirm gone by now. I don't blame her actually, cos inside my heart i knew it's gonna distort no matter what, and what she did most probably makes no big difference. She's my lab partner and i still think she's the most fabulous person in the class. without her i bet i'll be worse than shit in lab and clinics.

The worse of it all, it's my master impresson aka, working impression which i'm working on. so it needs to be accurate or else the denture made using it will not fit the patient well.

And guess what, i didn't take the facebow record due to lack of time and am told to go straight to fitting stage.

So it only means something.

a. everything goes well, trial wax denture fits well, everything is fine. tooth shade, tooth mould is well. all ok. sui sui.

b. after i've set the teeth up in wax ( which involves many other tedious steps that take eons to complete), it is unstable and rocks. GG. Scrape everything, retake impression, start all over again from 0.

And it's 90% the latter. I'll just pray hard.

7. Tried to trim some metal pins on ym pindex cast. Carborundrum ( carbon like disc which is as coarse as sand paper, but harder) disc slips while i'm stepping on the drill. Zap, and it cut my nail cum a bit of my nail bed.

Ouch. But heck. continue to do lab work.

How bad can my day be man. i seriously wonder. But sometimes, in dental school, we always believe that we have our good and our bad days. Good days are when everything goes SUPER smoothly and bad days are when what ever can go wrong, goes wrong.

Worse of it all, i feel so bad towards my patient, cos it's not comfortable for her to go through so many retakes. And it's definitely not her fault that the impression distorted. It is my fault and yet she has to bear the costs.

What a lousy day. hai.

Nvm, i'll make sure tomorrow's better.