Third Week: Surgery

        As the third week began, we were transferred to the Surgery Clinic. This clinic was fully equipped with:  automatic sphygmomanometers to take the patient's pressure before their surgery or extraction, electronic thermometers, nitrous oxide tanks, a center to properly wash your hands and an area to put your clinical gowns on. Here in Baylor dental students are allowed to do more than extractions, we were able to see them do  tori removal, buccal exostosis, alveoloplasties and frenectomies.

     Their extraction techniques are pretty similar to ours, the only thing is that they work standing up the whole time, which after a while gets to be pretty tiresome. The only variations I was able to observe is that they are more lenient when it comes to high blood pressure in a patients, because they still consider 150/100 in medicated hypertense patient acceptable for surgery.

   It was interesting to watch the administration of nitrous gas to the patients and the way they regulate it. When the patient asked for that kind of anesthesia there had to be a control of their blood pressure every 30 minutes to ensure the patient's wellbeing.

Implant Lab