Cooking with Gas

This Tuesday in lab we spent most of the afternoon making crowns out of gold. Interestingly, the product at the end of the lab looks strikingly similar to a monopoly piece. Observe.CrownMonopoly piece

The best part of the day for me was using the awesome torch. The only picture I have is this one: The torch is actually much cooler than the picture shows. The torch could be turned up to shoot for about a foot! By the way, I tried to search google for a picture of the torch, and when I was typing in "dental torch" the most commonly searched terms box said "dental torture" as a probable item. That's not nice, you dentist haters!

We were repeatedly warned to be careful before our lab. Our teachers warned us that the faculty were the most at risk because students often got so excited once the big torch was lit that they forgot where they were pointing it and burned the nearby faculty member who was in charge of helping. Either this is an interesting coincidence or the students before us really hated the faculty.

Unfortunately for my friend, Hanna, this warning came too late. A few minutes before lab she had been working with a smaller flame on a project for another class when she made a small mistake with the fire and it cost her...

...the tips of all her eyelashes on her right eye. She is now rocking the "charred lash" trend that we've been seeing so much on the runways this season. She is not happy about it.

You might have thought that dentistry was only for dorks. Now you know--it's dangerous. Men going through their mid-life crises are signing up in droves. We get gadgets like James Bond. We burn each other (and ourselves). We carry torches. We are dentist--hear us roar.