Alah korang dentist je pun...

Yesterday's morning during our lecture at Dental School of CUH, Kamil told me he met a guy.

Tak..bukan bukan...Kamil straight la dier ada girlfren.

The guy was on a wheel chair, and his face was urm..what should I say..terribly bruised and he was on his way to the dental hospital. I think he's the same guy I met 2 weeks ago but I didn't know he was going to have his dental treatment. What would you expect kan, a guy, on a wheel chair, face terribly bruised but ended up on the dental chair having his treatment.

Which triggered us to think, what IF, one day we are facing the same patient. Sure nervous gile..

And which brings me to the subject of my post today = Alah korang dentist je pun.. "Come on, u guys are just dentists"

Being the minorities, often I was asked why did I learned upper limb, embryology, heart, kidney, etc etc despite the fact that one day I'll end up concentrating only one part of the body ie. the oral cavity (that's what people think the ONLY thing dentist does. Main gigi je kerjanya~) Truthfully before this I don't know how to answer but I know there must be some reason why UCC put us through 5 hell of years learning most parts of the body and its systems under the course of dentistry. But today, I can finally figure out some answers..

During a dental checkup, you bring yourself, which consist of your whole body to the dental clinic. You don't get to opt to leave your rotator cuff muscles, pubic symphysis, or your heart back home simply because the oral cavity is a part of your body and the parts of your body don't just detach and reattach themselves impurposedly. Hence, when we, the dentist (fine.....the future ones) are treating you, the whole body and its systems are within our responsible. Any impairment of your health condition are of our concerns. Eventho we can't fix it, we can avoid from messing up with it.

Prior to dental treatment, we need to get your medical history. Whether you are diabetic, athmatic, has high blood pressure, your cardiovascular conditions,any allergies to anaesthetic or medicine..all things needed to be told to cause certain cases may need extra precautions. For example (From my readingla -gua baru 2nd year babe. But dont be deceived, gua tak rajin. Search pun sebab nak tulis this post muahahaha)), people with rheumatic heart disease, they are recommended have a pre-antibiotics treatment.

Moreover, to some extent, a dentist can detect symptoms of disease from the abnormalities shown in your oral cavity. Hence, there is a need for a dentist to know bits and pieces of other body parts too to find the connection and to advice patient to get a treatment.

There was this one time, a friend of mine made a statement ".....you dentist only concern about those cranial nerves..." (as a respond of my statement u snobbish doctor don't underestimate us!) I wish we were. But sadly we don't. There are a lot of other things that we deal with.In anatomy, we also learned about heart, kidney, upper limb etc etc Even in physiology, we deal with cerebral cortex, limbic system, prefrontal cortex, learning, memory, and those bloody things that until now I couldn't understand!! (emo dah nak exam physio pastu tak paham2. hikhikhik. excuse me) So yes, anyone who used to think that dentist didn't know what rotator cuff muscle is (insider emo disini, hikhik...excuse me), HOI, I SPENT A PART OF MY LIFETIME STUDYING IT OK!

Now I feel like doing an entrance essay instead of blogging T___T

Anyway I'll be back with this topic when my knowledge is enough. Sorry if my justifications or explanations are too general but I hope it's enough to give u rough idea of what's life being dentist is all about. Some may only seen the aesthetic(braces, whitening etc etc) and physical (tooth extraction) effect of the job of dentist rather than a life-saving effect. I hope I may change this perception one day (cewwwwahhhhh~)

Untuk itu Nadzirah, marilah stop berinternet dan buka buku dan baca sekarrrrrrrrranggggg jugaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...