Crown Prepping
We’re learning how to prep teeth for full gold, porcelain fused to metal, and all porcelain crowns. That is, we’re taking 60,000 RPM pneumatic dental drills fitted with diamond-studded burs and… cutting plastic teeth (funny, eh?) fitted in something called a typodont which is mounted in a very nice simulated patient (complete with cheeks, semi-realistic range of motion, etc.). Thing is, it is tricky work. The next time your dentist picks up a mirror and drill in order to place a filling in your back upper molars… be thankful they first practiced on a set of plastic teeth.
Correction: Umm, that’s 400,000 rpm. Still a lot to learn when you’re off by orders of magnitude.
Comments
Mykala
Seems a waste that all this gold and diamonds be used on teeth…
Alexander Micek
Well, they are called crowns — we can’t let them feel left out amongst larger crowns.
Dan McKeown
More of a waste than getting “grills?”
Mykala
Hmmm… perhaps not. Point taken.
Alexander Micek
Is anything more of a waste than grills are?
John +1
Maybe Neuticals: http://www.neuticles.com/ Testicular implants for dogs, although this has nothing to do with teeth.
Alexander Micek
John is winning with Neuticles. I do think the billion dollar ringtone industry is up there, too.
Dan McKeown
Wait, are we just listing worthless things now? Because if we are I can keep going all day long. Remember, I work in the holiday department at Target, that is what I deal with on a daily basis.
Alexander Micek
Haha! Well, yes, we are listing things that are wastes of money, but (ideally) we’ll be ranking the waste and then sharing the top most wasteful thing(s). This activity may actually, in and of itself, be a waste.
Hmmm.