Aug 26, 2011

The lab

Hey,
My name is Lydia and I'm studying Dentistry at Barcelona. My objective is simple; transmit my passion. Since I was a little girl I loved this branch of the Medicine. These pictures are from mmy previous year. 

Each student has his own minilab, mine is this one. The university gives to us a tray with the material for the practices.  


Next step is to prepare the dummy. It's like a puzzle where you have to introduce the fake dentures in the dummy. 


This is me. In this practice we have to show how we do the absolute isolation. It looks useless but is very important to protect all the teeth from any dangers.   





The last picture is the result of the absolute isolation. It can appear uncomfortable for the patient but is not as bad as it looks. On one hand this system permits to separate the saliva and the teeth to treat. Why is that so important? The saliva is a powerful liquid that contains a lot of bacteria. So with this system the bacteria can't go inside the tooth by the hole. On the other hand the isolation prevents the passage of the instruments into the throat. When we are working with somebody's mouth we use small instruments that can be easily elusive with gloves. 
There is also another reason, the protection of the infectious patient, dentist and assistant. Through the saliva the bacteria can be transmitted from patient to the dentist or the assistant and vice versa. If you do the good technique it dries all and retracts the soft tissues. 

You never realize how dangerous can be if we don't take care of this technique. 




5 comments:

  1. Lydiaa! :) M'encanta el template que has fet servir, sobretot el fons de fusta... :D (I ja veuràs que jo al final aprendré Ontodologia a base de llegir-te... ;) El meu pare fliparà!)

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  2. Gracieees Laura!! De mica en mica aniré posant coses més interesants. Si veus algun error digamu que aixi tb aprenc ;) un peto

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  3. Me gusta mucho el contraste del estilo del blog.Me siento orgulloso.Ramón

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  4. Woww!! l'acabo de descobrir, no m'havies informat de l'existencia d'aquest blog! Congratulations ly, m'agrada molt!
    Att. Your partner in CUO!

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  5. Ja ho sé! Es nou :) Volia fer-lo mes public quan comenci la UNI xk ara no tink prou material. Thanks CUO's partner!

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