MY FIRST EXTRACTION

29.9.2010
2.50pm
OHC
Vincent Khaw
Supervisor: Prof Ong Siew Tin

After birthday celebration with 8 of them in Star Village and had delightful chocolatey cake from "just heavenly", we rushed back to OHC for oral surgery demo session. A middle-aged male patient(previoulsy treated by Yun Teng) was here for extraction referred by Dr.Lim. Today's my turn to volunteer in handling this procedure.

Without much preparation and sufficient of core knowledge, I started it off by obtaining history of the patient, inject lidocaine(inferior alveolar nerve block), anaesthesize long buccal nerve, lingual nerve, and started to loosen the tooth (36) using coopland 1. Prof Ong was extremely patient in guiding me every single step. Forcep 73 was chosen and force was applied towards the buccal side.. Krarrrkkk... Everyone was shocked! Fracture was the first thing that came into their thought but fortunately that was the sound of tooth detached from the socket..In other word, Job is done! YESH!! Successful;) Lingual..buccal..lingual..buccal..OUT~~ woohoo..

Applied force to the socket to prevent deformation of the socket.. Patient was bleeding profusely and I was somewhat disgusted by that..haha..Nooo..should see more blood..After post-op instructions, patient thanked me and walked out with smile~ Here's my first considered acceptable experience of extraction. A successful start to becoming a qualified dentist =) More to pick up..