I finally have some time to sit down and write about the two Dental School related events that took place in January.
Robbie's White Coat Ceremony was on January 17th. For those of you not familiar with the White Coat Ceremony, it is the ceremony used to mark the transition from studying pre-clinical to clinical dentistry. It was awesome being able to celebrate with both of our families. Robbie's parents, his sister and brother-in-law, and their two boys came up as well as my parents and one of my sisters. The ceremony involved a few Dentists speaking about the importance of ethics in providing care for their patients as well as a reading of a type of Hippocratic oath for Dental professionals.
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| Here's Robbie's entire class. Please note the one wearing a kilt on the far right. He has awesome classmates! |
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| Waiting for his coat. I'm so proud of myself for figuring out how to tie that tie! |
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| With my parents |
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| With Robbie's parents and sister |
The other fun event that took place in January was the Rocky Mountain Dental Convention. It's free for students and the school paid for me to take some classes as an employee. The best part was walking around the exhibition hall and getting free samples of things like toothpaste, spry gum, chapstick, hand sanitizer, pens, etc.
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| Robbie decided to try on a little jaw brace. |
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| This is me holding a giant model of an endo file. They use tiny versions of these to perform root canal therapy. I think the exhibitor guy thought I was a little strange for wanting a picture. |
At the end of the day, they had an "after party" and the first 750 people got two free drink tickets. Several people didn't want their free drinks and so they gave their tickets to us!
Robbie has decided to join the Dental Fraternity, Alpha Omega and apparently they have 2-3 social activities a month so I will hopefully have lots of fun stuff to write about in the near future!
