Day 4 Shadowing an Oral Surgeon
Today has been good. Woke up earlier than normal - 7:20am instead of 8am - in order to make it to the office to catch the 8:00am wisdom tooth extraction. I watched the female surgeon do an implant on the first patient. And on the second, she did an extraction of #2 and #3 and I got to see a fistula in the patient’s mouth. It looks like a pimple - had a little raised area with a white tip. After that was an extraction, I think #15, with bone graft for a future implant. Patient #4 was a wisdom tooth extraction and the last patient before lunch was a biopsy. The doctor cut out a small section of the inside of the patient’s cheek. That’s the first time I’ve ever seen a biopsy and it was weird but the little hole was sutured right up and that was that.
I did get to speak with the female oral surgeon and she works at the hospital Monday through Thursday since she can do the more serious surgeries there. Sigh, how cool is that?