Learning about Teeth
and removing Vidheha's teeth
Sydney Dental and Dr. Shakti Sharma were very welcoming. Dr. Sharma is a wonderful dentist who takes care of Vidheha’s teeth very well. Vidheha too is a wonderful patient. After Dr. Sharma took out her central incisors she asked, “Did it hurt?”
Vidheha put on a brave face and said, “No.” She has had three teeth extracted by Dr. Sharma and never shed a single tear. Today she is to have fluoride gel to strengthen her old baby teeth and to protect her new permanent teeth.
Kindly, Sydney Dental and Dr. Sharma offered to take classes for all of us at Spiny Babbler! She had previously invited me, Anita di, Vidheha, Bhagwati ma’am and Pallav sir to their gathering a few weeks ago.
and removing Vidheha's teeth
Sydney Dental and Dr. Shakti Sharma were very welcoming. Dr. Sharma is a wonderful dentist who takes care of Vidheha’s teeth very well. Vidheha too is a wonderful patient. After Dr. Sharma took out her central incisors she asked, “Did it hurt?”
Vidheha put on a brave face and said, “No.” She has had three teeth extracted by Dr. Sharma and never shed a single tear. Today she is to have fluoride gel to strengthen her old baby teeth and to protect her new permanent teeth.
Kindly, Sydney Dental and Dr. Sharma offered to take classes for all of us at Spiny Babbler! She had previously invited me, Anita di, Vidheha, Bhagwati ma’am and Pallav sir to their gathering a few weeks ago.
She is a very good teacher as well as dentist. She and her team
welcomed us and did several demonstrations. This class was also backed
up by Terry ma’am’s Skype class on mammals a week ago and how we have
two sets of teeth!
1) How to brush baby teeth (20 of them!) and how to brush permanent teeth (32 of them!) and how to floss. She had a special demonstration set of teeth to show us on which there were good teeth, decayed teeth as well as root structure we could see inside of and the blood vessels as well!
2) The structure of the teeth: enamel and dentin which make up the crown area; dental pulp, cementum and the blood vessels and nerves which make up the tooth root area. She had a real tooth to show us and we looked at each other’s teeth as well as Anita didi’s teeth
3) She also taught us about baby teeth that have central incisors, lateral incisors, canines, and 2 sets of molars. She then taught us about permanent teeth that have central incisors, lateral incisors, canines, 2 sets of premolars, and 3 sets of molars.
Snigdha and Shuvam were very interactive and gave great answers to her questions and we had a few laughs as well.
The it was time for Vidheha’s demo. She got on the reclining dentist’s chair, Dr. Sharma showed us the suction pipe, she said Vidheha would have fluoride put in for 3 minutes and she could not eat or drink for 1 hour! She put cotton and a yellow container in her mouth and showed us the gel as well as the paint.
It looked scary but Vidheha said it did not hurt. The process was fascinating and we saw many things. Then it was time to talk and then look at the X-ray machine and the image on the computer of the x-ray. After that we reviewed what we had learned. We had remembered quite a bit!
It was time for group photos then and it was time to say thank you and goodbye. Thank you so much for the wonderful morning Sydney Dental and Dr. Shakti Sharma.
1) How to brush baby teeth (20 of them!) and how to brush permanent teeth (32 of them!) and how to floss. She had a special demonstration set of teeth to show us on which there were good teeth, decayed teeth as well as root structure we could see inside of and the blood vessels as well!
2) The structure of the teeth: enamel and dentin which make up the crown area; dental pulp, cementum and the blood vessels and nerves which make up the tooth root area. She had a real tooth to show us and we looked at each other’s teeth as well as Anita didi’s teeth
3) She also taught us about baby teeth that have central incisors, lateral incisors, canines, and 2 sets of molars. She then taught us about permanent teeth that have central incisors, lateral incisors, canines, 2 sets of premolars, and 3 sets of molars.
Snigdha and Shuvam were very interactive and gave great answers to her questions and we had a few laughs as well.
The it was time for Vidheha’s demo. She got on the reclining dentist’s chair, Dr. Sharma showed us the suction pipe, she said Vidheha would have fluoride put in for 3 minutes and she could not eat or drink for 1 hour! She put cotton and a yellow container in her mouth and showed us the gel as well as the paint.
It looked scary but Vidheha said it did not hurt. The process was fascinating and we saw many things. Then it was time to talk and then look at the X-ray machine and the image on the computer of the x-ray. After that we reviewed what we had learned. We had remembered quite a bit!
It was time for group photos then and it was time to say thank you and goodbye. Thank you so much for the wonderful morning Sydney Dental and Dr. Shakti Sharma.
