Capstone project 4th visit

On wednesday April 3, 2013 I spent a total of 9 hours with my mentor. I got to experience seeing a biopsy for the first time it was pretty intresting. The reason why the biopsy was being done was because the patient was dicovered to have an area around the jaw to be less dense on the bone then its surrounding. A small insicion was made to get a bit of sample tissue and blood just to make sure its not cancerous or anything. After the samples were collected they were sent to UCSF for further evaluation.  I also continued to learn how to talk to patients and how to set up rooms for surgeries. You must be very careful while cleaning the surgery rooms. You must wear gloves at all times. And one of the top rule is avoid cross contamination. They take cross contamination very seriously. This also includes while steralizing the surgical tools. This is while you should never touch the dirty tools with the clean ones. You have to be changing gloves every minuite. It gave me the chance to learn how to properly handle these situations safely without any complications. I am not sure when the next time i will be meeting with my mentor but i hope to get more experience on steralization.

Capstone mentor hours visit 3

On Tuesday April 2, 2013 i spent a total of 9 hours with my mentor. I got the chance to see a few implants be placed. Implant procedure is little bit more complex and more teering of the tissue and bone then a wisdom tooth removal. The Oral Surgeon uses more anesthesia for this procedure. The surgeon must use a screw to measure the size of the implants. The screw is drilled into where the tooth should be. Then after the doctor is done putting in the screw they clean up the area the best they can. After the procedure is done the patient comes back in a few months to get his implants or other patients get their implants the same day. I also got to learn the about the tools they use to do these procedures. And i also got to see how to treat the patient when they first arrive and how to put them at ease. Some patients come in really nervous so they ask a lot of questions and you have to simply explain it to them step by step. I was taught how to clean the rooms and set them up for the next surgery. I felt like it was a really productive day. In my next visit which will be on wendesday April 3 i hope to see a biopsy be done and also learn moreon how to steralize surgical tools and how to prepare rooms before surgery. 

capstone mentor hours

On Monday April 1, 2013 I spent a total of 9 hours with my mentor. I got to experience seeing wisdom teeths being pulled out. There was some patients that were only having one wisdom tooth pulled out, while others had to have three to four wisdom teeth pulled out. Patients must go under I.V before going under the procedure. Its amazing how the I.V goes into effect in less then a minuite. I got to see step by step how a wisdom tooth is pulled out. Sometimes some patients tooths must be pulled out by parts and for others the tooth is removed in one whole piece. Enable for the Oral Surgeon to remove the tooth he must dettache the gums from the tooth. This will avoid any damage to the gums while the tooth is being pulled out. After the tooth is removed the surgeon must place stitches to close back the gums again this is only required when its not a wisdom tooth. After a wisdom tooth is removed a hole is left in the area where the tooth was removed. For young people the hole will be covered by bone over the time but, unfortunetly for older people bone no longer grows to cover that area. A wisdom removal procedure do not last for hours it can take up to 35 to 40 minutes. i must have seen atleast 10 wisdom removal procedure be done. In my next visit wich will be in April 2nd i plan to see implants be placed.