Chronicle 11 : Women Dilemma Navigating Dress Codes and Gender Norms in Dental School: A Woman Dentist’s Perspective in 2025 The first time I started dental school, I was happy about the fact that there were many women in the class. I was glad that I was getting into a profession that was more women […]
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Chronicle 10 : The White Coat White Coat Dreams and Paranoid Dentists: A Journey from Nostalgia to Infection Control I still remember one of those soap advertisements that aired just before I started dental school. A charming actor, dressed as a doctor, rode through the dusty city on his bike—white coat draped heroically on […]
ZAPP THEM From Chaos to Clarity: My Journey into Radiographic Safety in Dentistry First Impressions of the Dental Clinic Walking through the clinics on the first week, I was amazed at the organized chaos unfolding on the floor. It was early in the hour, and patients were just arriving and registering. The student doctors […]
Break the Back? “Suction please,” I requested my assistant. “Air please,” I said again, anxious to finish the cavity preparation I was working on. Another patient was waiting, and I had a time crunch. Still, doing shoddy dental work was totally unacceptable. I needed a clear field of vision to remove all the caries. […]
Go comprehensive? Starting Clinical Rotations at NYU It was the day we started shadowing the seniors in the clinics at NYU. The place was buzzing with students and patients, almost like a busy marketplace! That might be an odd comparison, but that’s exactly how it felt—alive with activity. The professors were huddled in one corner, […]