The adventure begun early morning on October 15, I had to go to lab early to finish my transformation protocol for my BY-2 cells. Luckily I had Hong to finish the last part of the protocol (thanks Hong!). My good friend Aimee and Jen picked me up to go to the Truckee airport to meet our pilot Bob and leave for Thermal Ca. The experience in riding a small airplane was very unique in which it felt like a personal and more intimate. Flying commercial was like riding a train with all these people in it, but in flying on a smaller plane it felt like we were on a car on a road trip. The ride was loud and bumpy, but with the skill of our pilot, it wasn’t as bad as I imagined. It was although scary but safe at the same time, the kind of feeling that you’re in a roller coaster but with reliable safety as well. Weather wise, it was cold to really cold to really hot, you see flying over Palm Springs was just like flying through the desert but higher (which means hotter). The scenery was just amazing, everything was small, the clouds were in our reach and we were as tall as the mountains. Upon arriving, the weather was very different from up north, hot and I loved the feeling (well especially now cause its cold here right now, even though I hate being hot). We met 2 dentists and a hygienist and another pilot when we landed and they took us to we’re we would stay for the next two nights. We ate food at this wonderful Italian restaurant and further met more amazing people! And after all the fun and socializing the work began.
We had to set up some more in the location for the dental clinic that we were going to work at for tomorrow. There I got to help out on setting up and learning about some basics in assisting a dentist such as how to load anesthetic, suctioning, etc. The next day, early in the morning the chaos started. Upon arriving, we saw a long line of people waiting to be seen by a medical doctor, optometrists, dentists, hygienists, etc. It was overwhelming to see all these people, because to think we have to see them? On 8am I had to find a dentist that needed a dental assistant, it was hard because somehow most of the dentists had dental assistants already. So I went into the ‘The smile factory truck’ and I found one, YES! From then on I was assisting him from amalgams, to extractions, to composites, to sterilizing the instruments, to sterilizing the seat, to curing, to suctioning, to running back and forth from the truck to the clinic to grab him tools. I have to tell you the running back and forth was interesting because here we were in this peaceful truck and when I went to the clinic it was utter chaos! Lol I don’t know how many patients we saw but I know it was at least more than 10 because the dental clinic saw 220 patients total!! Woot woot! I was soo happy for the experience because there were its ups and downs that came with that day. One of the worst things that happened to me was that I broke a dental drill; I felt so bad and I told south bay that I broke it; the lesson was that it was made to break anyways and it already happened. I know for sure not to do that again! To this day I felt so bad because a drill costs like a thousand dollars! Moving on, the day turned into night and the lasts of the patients were coming in and we had to move to the clinic, luckily the clinic was calmed down a bit. But then again we were placed by sterilization. As it ended I got to assist a dental student who was doing a very hard extraction, in which he ended up being the assistant and his mentor teaching him, it was soo cool cause I got to see a case that was unique, and the guy had a root canal on the tooth that was being extracted on. Since it was very brittle it was hard to extract the tooth. Now I was assisting to the part where the first part of the
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