SPSCC Dental Assisting Program

A brown velvet hat that belonged to a street "dentist" or travelling tooth puller in London in the 1820s-50s. It is decorated with 88 decayed human teeth from his former patients, each drilled with a hole and attached with twine. ⁣⁣
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In the days before anaesthetic, this cap was meant to reassure potential clients that the dentist had "magician-like" skills, and could magically remove your rotten tooth without pain or infection. ⁣
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He couldn't. Despite his magical tooth hat, the procedure would hurt like bloody screaming hell as he yanked your decaying molar out of your mouth with his rusty germ-infested tools. But at least you could take a little comfort in the fact that your dentist looked GREAT.⁣⁣
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From the Cuming Collection of the Southwark Heritage Archives, London, UK. ⁣⁣

The more you know!

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Know your worth my loves! Don’t stand for anything less than what you deserve. Fight for competitive pay & DON’T SETTLE FOR LESS! ❤️ Based on this salary information, none of you out of school should be making less than $18 per hour starting wage. And should be at $20 per hour by 1-1.5 years post school.

this is just the coolest! Alginate impression of his tusks to make his custom protective tusk caps 😍

check out this sea otter root canal treatment 🦦 🦷 notice the Nomad hand held x-ray machine?

LMAO, this is a perfect meme to sum up the stage in the program our current cohort is in. Learning all about rubber dental dam placement this quarter

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This is what the hallway outside my office looked like during last weeks final exams, hard at work studying!

Halloween fun!