Give Kids a Smile

Today was the annual Give Kids a Smile event at the dental school. We had over 180 kid in the clinic today that were in need of dental care. All of them were prescreened and have e-rays take by the local dental van. The kid that I assisted with treatment on was a cure little first grade girl named Jaime. She got sealants on her upper permanent molars, a stainless steel crown on a primary molar and she had one primary molar extracted that was too far decayed to save. She was great patient and only squirmed and cried a little when her tooth was coming out. Some of the other kids were squirming, fidgeting and crying when work was being done on them. Overall a great event which I look forward to participating in as a student provider next year.

Presidents Weekend

I was able to get Friday off and headed down to Ashland for the weekend in hopes of getting some skiing in. It turned out that my Aunt Mary was going to be in town visiting my mother and I wanted to take her up to Mt Ashland. Unfortunately the weather did not cooperate with us and high winds kept us off the mountain. There was plenty of new snow for the first time this year, so I was a little bummed out. We also were going to see the opening of a play at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, but we thought our tickets were for Sunday not Saturday and we missed our show. I did get a chance to do a little work on my pickup. I changed the fuel filter and replaced the radiator cap as well as gave it a wash down. Overall an uneventful weekend but relaxing to not do any school work. Back to the grind this evening with a little lab work.