http://blogs.atsu.edu/mai-lyduong Just another Blogs at A.T. Still University weblog Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:50:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello everyone! So... t I should have posted last Thursday because guess what happened?! Christine and I were injection partners! Last Thursday was also the last "official" day of injections in Clinic Orientation... Christine still had to do 14 more required injections, and I had to do 13 more required injections... so ... http://blogs.atsu.edu/mai-lyduong/2010/02/25/the-ending-of-february/ Yesterday we had injections again. Ben was my partner. And we had a fun time anesthesizing each other! I started... nervous! First Ben and I set up our operatories and before I knew it, Denise was standing behind me and was giving Ben a middle superior alveolar injection (MSA) and an ... http://blogs.atsu.edu/mai-lyduong/2010/02/05/second-time-with-the-needles/ Yesterday was our very first injections lab! Dana and I were partners. I was so nervous on Wednesday night. Luckily a classmate found this really great chapter in the Head & Neck book about the PSA injection. So I read it over and over again so I could be as ... http://blogs.atsu.edu/mai-lyduong/2010/01/29/first-injections/ Today we started RPD! Removable Partial Dentures! Exciting stuff! School has been good. It's our third week of school after the winter break. I definitely feel burned out. Last week we had an exam every single day - it was brutal. However, we all made it.... We just finished the ... http://blogs.atsu.edu/mai-lyduong/2010/01/19/rpd/ Hello all!!! It's December 18th and the first semester of second year is officially over! It feels so good. This semester was definitely a busy one; however it was jam packed full of the classes every dental student who goes to dental school wants -- classes on how to be a ... http://blogs.atsu.edu/mai-lyduong/2009/12/18/first-semester-is-over/ Complete dentures was all last week. Oh my goodness. First of all, let me just say that it's a lot of fun... if you're the artistic type. However there is so much information you need to know in order to fabricate complete dentures. So my advice: Pay attention to Dr. El-Gendy- ... http://blogs.atsu.edu/mai-lyduong/2009/12/06/first-week-of-complete-dentures-over/ Hello everyone! Ah... yesterday I did my first comprehensive exam on a classmate. How nerve-wrecking!!! If you don't know what a complete comprehensive dental exam is- it includes: 1. a review of the patient's medical history about past surgeries, systemic problems, medications, allergies, and so on. 2. an extra-oral exam - this is ... http://blogs.atsu.edu/mai-lyduong/2009/11/20/and-so-thanksgiving-break-begins/ Hello Everyone, It's been a while since my last post. I'm sorry. School has definitely been busy. Hmm... Where to start? Well, Radiology was a lot of fun. Took my radiology competency exam and did well. Made a couple boo boos. But the important thing is that you are able to identify ... http://blogs.atsu.edu/mai-lyduong/2009/11/13/november-is-here/ Just got back from radiology. I was super proud of myself. I only had trouble with two places in the mouth. I'm really glad my mentor Nevin let me shadow her in the radiology lab last year. She taught me how to put sensors and instruments together as well as ... http://blogs.atsu.edu/mai-lyduong/2009/09/10/radiology-fun/ My name is Mai-Ly. I'm a 2nd year ASDOH student. I am the D2 Class President of the Class of 2012!! :) I am involved in ASDA and Student Ambassadors. I graduated from the University of Arizona and grew up in the NW Phoenix area. I sing and act on ... http://blogs.atsu.edu/mai-lyduong/2009/09/10/welcome-to-a-first-blog-day-of-mai-lys-life/