BLEED FOR TWEED

The Class of 2012 attended the Charles H. Tweed Orthodontic Study Course for the last 10 days. The following is a brief summary of our time in Tucson AZ.

The course was a labor intensive ecercise in wire bending and wax work. Each of us had a typodont with teeth mounted in wax. You would bend the wire, place it in the typodont, dip it in warm water bath and watch the teeth move through wax.

Laura and John showing off their skills. Dr. Jim Vaden was our instructor the first day. He used to be the director at the Univ of Tennessee. He wore his USC shirt the day he was our instructor. Interesting that he never wore any other schools shirt.

Dr Diguilio is our instructor from USC. He demanded perfection from us that day. Mike is clearly a little frustrated.

The Class of 2012 enjoying a our last night out to dinner as a class. We found a pretty good Mexican food place called El Charro.

Mike showed off his cooking skills one night. Too bad he was wearing white skinny jeans.

Here is a collection of all the wires we had to bend. It was about a total of 30 archwires. Doesn't sound like much but trust me it was. Our days went from 8am-7PM. Luckily we were one of the faster schools so we would finish early a few days.

The Class of 2012 with Asst course director Dr Jim Vaden and the course director of some 30 yrs Dr Klontz. Dr Tweed is in the picture on the the wall.

All of us appreciate going to the course and are glad that it is over. Our fingers are calloused from all of the wire bending, our minds are spent from all of the lectures, and our backs are sore because of the benches we sat on for many hours.

We made friends from Residencies all over the US and all over the world.