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My Dentures Bit Me

Posted on February 21, 2009February 21, 2009 by Jolene

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Second term of my fourth year has started and so far it’s been 8 to 5 EVERY SINGLE DAY! On one hand, I’m really glad that they’re upping our clinical sessions but at the same time, I kind of miss this thing I used to do called sleeping.

I’m almost like a real working adult. There’s a strange bubbling sense of pride. It’s like I’m WITH IT, you know? Except there’s no money to motivate me. Can’t wait to work for real.

I remember having this talk with Karthik the other day while in the MRT. Working people are always telling us, “Enjoy uni! It’s the best time of your life!” We’ll agree to that on some levels but I think money trumps everything. When you’re studying, you just don’t know when’s your next regular disposable income. When you’re in uni, holding your hands out for moolah from the parents becomes increasingly difficult as you age.

Whatever free time I have during school hours, I would be stuck in the dental technology lab doing attempting to do this set of dentures for my patient. I’m going crazy with the hours I have to put up in the lab (I went in at 9 today and only left at 5. And I only managed to SET the teeth. I didn’t even get to finish the damn dentures.) and I got into a few accidents throughout my sessions there. :\


The bunsen bunner there serves the purpose of heating the wax knife for you to cut, shape and adjust the dentures. At one point, I was chatting with one of the dental tech lecturers and absent mindedly picking up a wax knife to smoothen my dentures, only to scream “FUCK!!!!!!” and dropped the wax knife..like, well, a hot wax knife. I was holding on to the end that I was heating up only seconds ago. And by heating, I meant smoke was coming out from that end. My fingers still kind of hurt now. 🙁

The other mishap was when I was ALSO chatting to the dental tech lecturer and then SNAP! The dentures clamped shut on my third finger, causing one side of the nail to break and poke into my nail bed. Don’t mess with dentures man. They bite.

🙁

You know how sometimes a high ranking lecturer comes in for a chat and you want to be polite and all?

Yeap. Not that fun when you have wax dripping down your fingers… and still trying to maintain the conversation without so much as squinting.


When I was last in the dental tech lab, things were still very primitive then. Most of our equipments were found in Tesco (stove, paint scraper, table dustpan). Here’s one of the very modern additions to the dental tech lab. A high powered air thingie that blows real hard at dusty surfaces. Really good when we’re trimming our acrylic stuff. The air is so strong that when I use it (to harden my molten wax actually), four chairs away, Wuan Phing said, “eh, cold lah Jolene!”

The pressure is really strong. Can be used for other things too. 😉

By the way, the pics were taken with my LG IceCream KF350. Not bad eh?

4 thoughts on “My Dentures Bit Me”

  1. keili says:
    February 21, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    hi jolene!
    i m learning to make dentures here in imu too!
    the lab sessions are really crazy! haha, really tiring.
    anyway, all the best in everything!

    Jo: hahaha yeah! you’re in the 2nd year already right? time really flies..:) lol, but I’m sure it’s rewarding! 🙂 Hope we’ll be colleagues one day! take care!

    –

  2. sohpoh says:
    February 21, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    I only just started making dentures this year. it takes agessss to finish! I’m havin 8 to 5 everyday too, sucks eh? making sleeping in(s) on weekends so damn good though. OMG I finally found ONE person who also prefer work over uni. Maybe cause we care bout money too much HAHAHA..

    jo: heyy!! hahaha yeah wei, it totally makes weekends all the more wonderful. lol if we didn’t really care about money, we wouldn’t be in this course in the first place kan. 😛 OKAY AND FOR THE LOVE OF TEETH TOO! 😛 you’re doing on real patients already?

    –

  3. sohpoh says:
    February 24, 2009 at 10:10 pm

    lol yea we started last year but it was pretty chill.. this year is like full on, everday of the week , different disciplines. T-T I’m starting to feel very damn tired and it’s only the second day sob sob. Hope yours is going way better than mine is

  4. Patrick says:
    March 9, 2009 at 5:18 am

    Wow…my 4 years playing with dentures also non once did it bit me! I think this is like the first time i heard that! hilarious~ 😛

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