Cathy Hsu Comes Through

Thanks to Cathy and the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year students at the University of Washington Dental school.  She collected close to 50 "typodont" (plastic simulation teeth) and at least as many extracted teeth from Yangchen Dolma to practice fillings.  We have been practicing using a dental drill and placing class I (chewing surface), and class II (interproximal/between) amalgam fillings.  The hope was that Yangchen become proficient at just the simple chewing surface fillings.  This is the most common site of decay in adult molars, and a great long term benefit.  She advanced so quickly that we decided to learn interproximal fillings as well.  She is doing everything technically perfect.  She just needs increased exposure to using a mouth mirror (everything is opposite), and live patients.  The latter has been a difficult task.  There is a noticeable decrease in the number of children with decayed adult molars due the everyones' (Singapore Dental Society, Vivian Levy, and Yangchen) efforts.  However, we are confident that there is enough candy here to seed at least a few cavities.