Lucky Tuesday

Be careful what you wish for coz it might come true

A cliche? Maybe

Like a picture, a good cliche is worth 1000 words sometimes

I got up early feeling energised this morning...i guess i had a good start for DEC yesterday so i kinda looked forward to my second day of DEC

My first patient was a pregnant woman who complained of pain on her wisdom tooth. There was a big cavity on the tooth and she could hardly open her mouth due to the tormenting pain. As a routine, i did the history and examination, presented to tutor and then sent the patient down to x-ray department. I was already warned by the tutor that the tooth was not salvageable and the x-ray was needed to see the root morphology.

Yay! Extraction for today!!!

Dun ask me why i love extraction so much.

But, to my dismay the patient had to be referred to Oral Surgery coz it was a wisdom tooth extraction which might involve minor oral surgery.

Sightly upset and disappointed, i turned to Helen, telling her that i wanted to do an extraction. At least something different from the first day.
One minute i was whining, the next minute Dr Leung handed me a patient's note and said,'' Since you've just sent your patient away, here's another one for you. It's also an extraction!"

*cough cough* I hope she didn't hear what i jz told Helen.

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This afternoon my group had cons session. Karn was the dentist so it was practically a chill-out for me. Apart from running up and down the stairs several times ( 4th floor to 1st floor and back up), i just spaced out most of the time. That's what a dental nurse does..ooops!

During the treatment, Karn and I talked about RCT(Root Canal Therapy). Both of us had a patient who needs a Re-RCT which is basically a re-treatment. To be honest, I'm quite reluctant to do the re-treatment as it's more complicated and the risk of failure is higher than the primary treatment. So, i told him it would be nice to get a simple rct case and yet, meet the requirement for endodontics.

It was only 5 min or less after i made that remark, Dr. Swati appeared all of a sudden and asked if anyone needs/wants an RCT patient.
Right away, Karn looked at me. Gobsmacked and speechless, i nodded my head faintly.

"When you've got a minute come and speak to me.We'll discuss with the patient what to do next."She walked off with a contented smile, like a math geek just found a solution to a complex problem.

I later on found out that the patient needs an RCT on the upper left 5 which is a SIMPLE RCT as i wished!!

Did my horoscope say that today is my day?!?!

sigh...I should have wished for more ...perhaps a free lifetime starbucks coffee voucher, a walk-in wardrobe or a lottery ticket worth 1 million!!!

Wasted!