Random Rambles: Dental Assisting!

So I am finally in my third term at school! I am loving it! Its so nice to actually study something that I just love so much! We have so far this term been taking Advanced Dental Materials, Advanced Clinic, and Office Emergencies. All of them are pretty easy so far - ( I got the highest midterm score in Emergencies), the hardest for me would have to be clinic, its not so much hard to understand --- its just been tough for me to get used to using my right hand as an assistant because I am left handed. I have also noticed that I get a bit nervous when I am working on my classmates - I am scared that I might hurt them, but that fear is always normal as a begginer dental assistant. In clinic we have been doing Dental Dam pass offs and oh my goodness - that is probably the most nerve racking thing for me! To keep the dam in place you have to use a little metal clamp thats very pointy around the patients molars and from personal experience IT HURTS!!! But I finally got them passed off and quickly so im pretty impressed with my self! Now, im going to rant.. There is this girl in our class that oh my gosh I CANNOT STAND!!! First of all does not even want to be a dental assistant and apparently shes known this for a couple terms now but decided to mention this now that shes like 10 thousand dollars into the program? yeah wierd... anyways shes just one of those people who dont really pay attention to anything so when the instructor goes over something shes asking questions later when she has to do it herself. Its just so frustrating and it takes time away from the people that WERE paying attention. She constantly cheats and tries to get us to give her answerers to homework she just was to lazy to do her self. Its pretty ridiculous and obnoxious and im so sick of it ..ANYWAYS so my point of all of this was in clinic she asked if she could do one of her pass offs on my teeth, so me being the great person I am .. haha..I said thats fine. USUALLY it should only take a student about 10 minutes or less to place dental dam, HERS TOOK A HALF AN HOUR!!! I was in pain the whole time, I had my lip nicked with the scissors, teeth hit constantly with things, and my gums were cut and bleeding, so when I would spit it would just be blood and spit, I just could not even believe it! A patient should not even bleed when the dam or clamps are placed, I will just end it with this - I feel horrible for whatever office has to have her as an intern!

ANYWAYSSS Here are some dental assisting pictures :-)