Friday, March 23, 2012

Composite Restorations

The first half of the semester, we've been doing composite preps (AKA drilling the hole for white-colored fillings), but as of two weeks ago, we started restoring (filling the hole) and it is so much fun! I totally love it.  Way more fun and prettier than amalgam (metal fillings).

This is before:
Prep (drilled) on the two middle extracted teeth (class II).
Notice the caries on the 3rd tooth (black rotten spot)

This is after:


Composite Restorations (tooth-colored fillings) - Lingual view

Occlusal view


And here's one more tooth:
Before: Note the decalcification on the middle tooth (white lines)
During: Cut it down to imitate a fracture (class IV)

After: Then built it back up - no more white lines!
(My mesial contact is too narrow.)


Isn't dentistry so cool?
I'm so blessed to be studying and doing what I love.
God, you da best.

1 comment:

  1. Joan! It's Esther V from freshmen year of USC. ;)
    I stumbled onto your blog through gchat. It's so cool how you're sharing your two loves -- baking and dentistry! I think it's rad and nerdy in a cute way how you love doing dentistry. hehe Thanks for showing/sharing that God is sooooo good!

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