OK, how did this book ever get published?!? Someone thought, "Oh, sure. A book for kids called You're Going to Die and a picture of a precious, crying 6 year old...fantastic idea worth printing."
If you've never read this blog before, go to #1. If you read this blog a lot and are tired of hearing me complain about dental school, go to #4.
#1--Every procedure in dental school has a point value, and every dental student needs a certain amount of points each year to graduate. With all the talk about points and such, sometimes it feels like a giant game at Mr. Gatti's. Other times it's a little more like being trapped on a twisted carnival ride. I digress...today my patient no showed for the second time. Do you know how many points a no show is worth? Zero. Sometimes a sad student like myself can finagle her way into some points on no show days by helping in the emergency clinic or the oral surgery clinic, but today they had both clinics under control. If you like happy endings, go to #3. If you like realistic endings, go to #2.
#2--Know what else is worth zero points? Doing root canals on extracted teeth. Root canals have a fancy name--endodontics. (Get it? That's why it's funny to call this post "Pretendodontics," because I did endo, but it wasn't on a real patient...it was pretend.) I crack myself up. Anyway, I did exactly three root canals on three extracted teeth for exactly zero points. Technically, I got good experience out of it, practiced for when I do endo on a real patient, and completed my requirements for my molar endo selective by doing this, but it still felt like a skee ball right in the gutter since no points showed up on the board. Go to #4.
#3--Then I went home and played with my dog. Yay! Go to #4.
#4--So today was point-less. But tomorrow is a new day, and someday soon...May 27th to be exact...there will be no more points. I will be a real live dentist and every day will be...umm...pointless. Ha!
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