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.

SENIOR GRADUATION

The Seniors had a graduation banquet held in Palm Springs. I did not take many pics. Since I was working on the video all weekend. The following is the video that. was show at the banquet. Mike and I drove all night to Tuscon right after the video. We arrived at 430AM, slept till 630AM in a smoking room, then started class at 8AM.

EXTERNAL REVIEWER

Dr Cangiolosi from Columbia University came to USC as the external reviewer for USC. He met with each of the Seniors individually and looked at 10 of their cases. He then attended the presentations of the seniors research and presented himself.

DR FRY VISIT

We went to Kansas City to visit Dr Fry and have an Invisalign Certification Course. Stefan and I went out early to play at the duck lodge. We shot guns, road 4 wheelers, and much more.

(L-R) John, George, Mike, Dr Fry, Dr Jeremy Fry, Stefan, Laura, Garrett

EDWARD H. ANGLE SOCIETY MEETING

All the members bring 2 cases for everyone to look at.

Soraya, Jenny, Garrett, Nicole, George
Dr Sameshima and Dr W. Schacter enjoying lunch.

Dr R. Schacter showed up to see his son Dr W Schacter present his cases for membership in to the Angle Society.

Spent the last 3 days in meetings. Now back to work tomorrow.

USC ORTHO

As the Class of 2010 are getting ready to graduate and leave the nest, I thought I would just post this collage I made for something else.

TADs Lab

Mike was in charge of getting some pig jaws for our TADs lab. They made him buy the whole head which he then had to dissect out the mandibles. Oh how funny is that story....

EMODELS

USC Ortho is trying out E-models.

Dr Banh

Dr Banh is one of our awesome Friday faculty. The funny thing is that he took over the Ortho practice of the Orthodontist who treated me. Dr Banh also treated my cousin. Small Ortho world...Here he is working up a treatment plan with George, Garrett, and Laura.

5 Guys...1 Girl

For the last few months we have been asking Dr Sameshima to go to 5 Guys. We finally had a long lunch break and made the trek which was definitely worth it.

USCSD GETS A NAME for 35 Million!

Trip to Mountain High

First Break

No it's not my thumb, but one of the 2nd yr residents took a little spill on the slopes and broke her thumb. I think she was kind of excited to have a broken bone.

USC ORTHO 2009

HALLOWEEN @ USC ORTHO