Post 8: A Subject you've enjoyed studying this semester

 My favorite course this semester is "Simulations for Professional Practice II". The contents of this class are both theoretical and practical. As for the practical part, we learn tactics to perform clinical procedures through a dental model that simulates the mouth and teeth of a real patient. In the theoretical part we learn about biomaterials, operation of rotary equipment (turbine, micromotor, among others), occlusion, clinical procedures, (for example, the steps to take an impression) anatomy, among other contents. These same contents are the ones we should know in order to be able to practice on the dental model every time we go to a preclinical laboratory. In general, in the laboratories we work on dental restorations (but with false teeth), we do biological preparations with the turbine and diamond stones, impressions with special materials such as alginate, among other things. 

 It really is a very varied course. 

I like this class because it is a real-life approach. This way, I get a feel for what it's like to treat a real patient. (Although it's hard enough on a dental model HAHAHAHAHA). But I have confidence in myself, and I know that with practice I will get better techniques to treat my future patients.