why everyone should study dentistry

  • Today I got this kickass electric toothbrush (worth 170e) for free.
  • Last week I got to see a tongue that was split in half in an accident being stitched together.
  • I also saw an implant surgery and several teeth being ripped out.
  • Once I graduate, 50% of finnish people will be afraid of me.
  • Finnish Dental Society flew us all the way to Helsinki just for fun. They paid our flights, food and hotels. For no particular reason. And they’ll do it again next year.
  • Today I got to practice giving vaccinations. I got to shot my friends twice and it was awesome.
  • My paychecks will be massive!
  • Also, in finland our studies include one dissection and two autopsies. So I’ve touched a dead person. Three times. Beat that.

5handscuriosities:

The finest example of Vecabe’s work I have ever seen. A near complete French workshop kit displaying a wide range of the impeccable craftsmanship of bridges, crowns, prosthetic and porcelain teeth c.1920.

biomedicalephemera: Frontal section through the head of newborn - region of molars The big empty space is where the brain would be, if it were left in the head, just to get a general orientation. The blue circle-shaped regions shown down near the tongue cross-section are odontoblasts (tooth germs). The deciduous (baby) teeth all begin their development early in gestation. By 20 weeks into pregnancy, the initial calcification has established the tooth germs throughout the mouth. Though the crowns of the teeth (harder tissues - dentin and enamel) are not deposited until roughly 5-6 months old in the case of the first molars, you can clearly see the development of the inner tissues of the teeth going on in this cross-section. Atlas and Textbook of Dentistry Including Diseases of the Mouth. Gustav Preiswerk, 1906.

biomedicalephemera:

Frontal section through the head of newborn - region of molars

The big empty space is where the brain would be, if it were left in the head, just to get a general orientation. The blue circle-shaped regions shown down near the tongue cross-section are odontoblasts (tooth germs). The deciduous (baby) teeth all begin their development early in gestation. By 20 weeks into pregnancy, the initial calcification has established the tooth germs throughout the mouth.
Though the crowns of the teeth (harder tissues - dentin and enamel) are not deposited until roughly 5-6 months old in the case of the first molars, you can clearly see the development of the inner tissues of the teeth going on in this cross-section.

Atlas and Textbook of Dentistry Including Diseases of the Mouth. Gustav Preiswerk, 1906.