So today we woke up again at 6 am to head to Buitenpost at 7 am to our practise place. In the first part of the day I got the chance to work with an orthodontic assistant. She is working all alone: checking the braces, fixing them, taking them off, making and placing the retainers on the palatinal and lingual part of the teeth. Although she is working alone I could help her and she taught me a lot of thing for example how to make an alginat impression and she let me do it on a patient as well. Than she showed me how to make a plaster model from the impression and after two times she let me do it myself.
At home I have never met an assistant like her who does all these things alone instead of the dentist and I found it very interesting.
In the second part of the day after lunch I was working with a dentist who is working with adults but with children as well. She mostly did fillings and I assisted her, but we did check ups as well: we looked for cavities, gingivitis and other mutations.
We finished at 5 pm as usual so we got home around 6 pm and the others were waiting us with freshly made dinner.
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