Joyce says...

I think i'ts the whole band. He was their dentst.

Stephen says...

Joyce: Do you mean a member of the Rolling Stones or someone from Rolling Stone Magazine?

Cindy: What's the alveolar nerve? Does it have another name, because you're freaking me out that I don't know what you're talking about.

NeverGonnaGrowUp says...

eww...alveolar nerve...

i remember those buggers...branch off mandibular nerve...enters mandibular foramen...through mandibular canal...exits mantal foramen to become mantal nerve...

i narrowly missed the mandibular foramen when i saw through the mandibular joint...almost severed my barbara's inferior alveolar nerve...maybe i should have severed it cuz it was on my gross exam...

oh so tired. so tired. i have limited study span now...2-6pm. if my class ends at 5 it becomes 515pm-6pm. that was the case today. yay for sucky endurance...

Joyce says...

And I just learned today that this faculty had his license revoked because he prescribed too much vicodin to Rolling Stone.

yes, THE rolling stone.

He used to prescribe patients vicodin for unlimited refills until they tighten the law. crazy.

Joyce says...

I SAW THE MOST HORRIBLE LECTURE VIDEO/PICTURE TODAY.

The thing is, I've seen a LOT of gory or disgusting pictures, (surgery pictures are piece of cake) elephantiasis, pox, warts, hairy tongues, weird oral growths, puddle of flesh from people who jumped out of the WTC (and yes, this was from a lecture slide about forensic dentistry)..... the video/picture that freeeaked me out today during oral surgery lecture was

my professor giving himself an inferior alveolar nerve block injection

It's the kind of injection you get when you have works done on your lower jaw. The kind that makes your tongue and lower lip numb.
I've given the injection several times, received it several times, but as a needle phobic, seeing someone doing that to himself just oh-my-frigging-mother-of-god freaked me out.

The worst part was when he didn't angulate it quite right when he went it, so he had to move the needle around inside a few times to hit the bone. GAAAAAHHHH!!!!

Unknown says...

those are some fucked up awsome little fingers with fucked up little violin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfc8SQRFSTs

Unknown says...

In response to Stephen... Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


Man there's some wierd virus or something going around and a few people, INCLUDING ME, have woken up really nauseous and with bad vertigo. Hurray to arffing up stomach fluids in the morning! Oh ya to make matters worse, the arffing continued into the day on Monday. You know the law of physics concerning states of matter? Ya the one you learned in elementary where Solid-->liquid-->gas? Ya I found out that applies to arffing too. So since my stomach was empty, I woke up arffing liquids. After a while, I emptied the liquids, and started arffing gas. WOW I just realized how bad that sounds. Anyways, somebody needs to hook me up with gravo or however you spell it. Truth be told, it only lasted one day. BUT I HATE THAT FEELING>

Onto another story. I think the Vancouver Canucks should sign the GM place bench to a one year contract and see how he does. Maybe it'll stop a few pucks and even score a couple on deflections.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=220792&hubname=nhl

Joanne says...

You know, I still don't get why everyone is laughing at my pheremones idea, ESPECIALLY Tim. I actually got my answer as to why our reproductive organs are so close to our excretory system from a sex book that he gave me (as a joke)!

Speaking of which, time for me to retun such a gift to him for his birthday...

Karen says...

happy birthday chris! all the best =).

Karen says...

hihi!!

first and foremost, apologies to peterli who does not read this blog. i think this is probably the first birthday in a long time that i have not posted. but i did not forget. i did remember on the day of but decided not to post it since he's one of those f***b***ers. but anyway, sorry. happy belated birthday peter (5th) and happy birthday to tim (10th), who also does not read this blog =).

hi cindy!! i miss our long msn chats... i haven't talked to you in so long! i've been busy being a grad slave/student. =) my priority is to finish ASAP. and that pretty much translates to a surprisingly unmaddening non-existent social life and most social contact at home and work are people in my institute or my classes. haha. oh stupid long applications for people to give me money!! yay grad student fellowships and funding. and that pretty much sums up my life in the past month. =)

i will keep up with the birthdays just because i think i need to keep the tradition =). and ben, the phd comics is awesome. it's actually quite popular.

keep posting guys. i like seeing the blog active still!!!

Stephen says...

OK, counterpoint: Our sexual structures are located in a place that offers them the most protection from the environment. If your sexual structures were on your hands, how often would you pass them over the bowl to eat hot pot? Not only would you contaminate the food with your nether regions (think of the skyrocket in STI's), but you would take the chance of burning them to a crisp every time you ate.

It wouldn't be very evolutionarily advantageous to have your reproductive organs in a place where they can be rendered useless very easily. While plants have their sexual structures at their extremities, they also produce more than one structure. So if they lose one, not a big deal. We, on the other hand, only get one set (thankfully, how could you ever get a pair of pants to fit otherwise?) so we have to protect them.

I agree with it being kind of gross to have them near excretory organs, but I don't think that moving those is such a good idea either. Think of the ramifications of excreteing waste out of your hands, not only would you constantly contaminate yourself and other people just by touch, but snowball fights would get very disgusting.

Joyce says...

Thanks Steve and Cindy!
Well, passing the FIRST PART of the board only means I'm 1/2 a dentist and get to keep my patients and treat them under supervision (and waaaaayyy too much paper work) by school policy. There're still the second part of the national board and tons one licensing exams waiting for me in my 4th year.
It's pretty funny how the school system keeps track of the things we have done on patients (so far i've done 8 fillings, 1 root canal, etc) for our requirements. They also keep track of the money we make. It gives extra sense of accomplishment. hahaha.

To stimulate blog activity, here's another cross posting from facebook:

Studying anatomy and physiology makes me realize structures exist in certain ways for their reasons which make perfect Darwinian senses.

Then why our sexual organs are so darn close to excretory structures?
If we're meant to populate and procreate, why aren't they more accessible like arms.
If any sense of taboo/shame of our sexual organs stems from such close proximity (they are all down there, man), then this just doesn't make sense because you can say that the intimate locations of the two systems would render the sexual organs less accessible.
Plus, if you really think about it, humping so close where you poop or pee is just gross.

Stephen says...

Cindy (and others): It wouldn't be my and Ben's blog if you guys actually POSTED SOMETHING! It's not my fault we're the only ones who have written something in a month...

Anyways, school's going well, but I'm not in Med 3. I'm in Med 2. So, no rotation or call yet (thank god, all the Med 3's are ready to die about now). So, instead of losing sleep over ridiculous hospital hours, I'm losing sleep over ridiculous studying hours (probably the same as yourself).

Ummm... That's about it. Now I'll answer for Ben: "AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Stephen says...

CONGRATULATIONS JOYCE!!!

You can officially pull teeth for money! (as opposed to doing it for revenge)

NeverGonnaGrowUp says...

joyce - you deserve a special individual post all by yourself

CONGRATULATIONS ON PASSING YOUR BOARD'S!!!!!

NeverGonnaGrowUp says...

hello hello hello!

looks like this blog is becoming ben and stephen's blog. haha. but not to worry i dont know if facebook is really winning since i have gone on there myself in uh...a few weeks, if not months...


steve nap - how is third yr going? how do u enjoy being on call? what rotation r u doing?

ben - how is grad school going? what classes r u TAing? and how's ur little sis?

ive been doing ok. been down w/ a cold for quite some time now...exam this coming friday. it'll be my third, so tests r becoming quite common place. ppl seem to be more stressed about this one tho, probably cuz of the lack of good lecturers in this theme, which makes me stressed out even tho i normally would be stressed out about exams anyways (now is not the time to lie to myself). got a car recently, so been trying to catch up on some driving experiences cuz right now im a terrible driver.

neways, hope to hear from more of u guys soon. what happened to karen????????