Somewhat off topic, but a good fit: Nephew lives in resort area in northern Minnesota. They're having a huge influx of Twin City folk escaping to their vaca homes. The local grocery stores weren't geared to deal with a population doubling, and top it off, the closest hospital is a good 45...
Waiting in line at the grocery store this morning. They are only letting in 24 people at a time. Actually went smoothly, wait was about 10minutes To get in. Overall, everything was well stocked, with a few empty shelves. like No bagged potatoes, but plenty of loose ones. Our part of North...
1. My eye for color sucks, don't see value well at all. If I had my way everyone would have gold crowns.
2. worked with an assistant with an amazing eye for color, she took all the single anterior shades, with me standing next to her taking notes. Our failure rate was about 2%, and about half...
on the two middle pictures, impression and poured model I'm guessing, it looks like class V abrasions that the doc didn't drop the margin below. Is that a typical "margin' issue? That situation can be very difficult to read read in the impression.
On the cases without enough reduction, how...
worse repair: upper denture arrived in the office in about 10 pieces from someone traveling through on vacation. Don't remember how it was broken. It was like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle and took many trips through the pressure pot to make it whole again. My Doc advised when they got...
Ok, it has been 2 years, but the last couple years my doc used them, and in a simple in house lab, another words no mill, I hated them. The abutments are (or then) were a block of metal that had to be prepped or milled. The 3.0 or was it a 3.2?-what ever-were especially horrid, as it has...
Thanks all.
It'll be interesting. He wants to teach jewelry at a charter high school that is located in a still functional wood working mill. The Blu Ox Millworks has an impressive history, and if he can add lost wax casting to the school curriculum, wow
Have found someone who is interested in my burnout ovens, casting machine & torch, but he doesn't have natural gas at his building. He wants to do jewelery, so I'm casting gold and silver.
The only alternates I can think of is propane or acetylene, but my old memory says they burn too dirty...
Well, going solo working from home and maternity stuff, I think too much will depend on temperament of future little person, and if partner is at home with you. A colicky baby will turn your hair grey and put you in a state of sleep deprivation you can't imagine. Or you could luck out and...
I know of two (from my old office) Ney programable 2 stage burnout ovens that could probably be had for cheap. They're admittedly old, but they were going strong when I retired in Sept. 2015. - now unused. I believe there is an extra door firewall and thermocouple too. They are located in...
During non-holiday season, in our county, there are a limited number of trucks and in the morning when they load them for the day, if they run out of room, then it's loaded the following day.
Our drivers, be they USPS, FedEx or UPS are all great guys thou
I graduated from a 2 year accredited Dental Tech school way long ago (1975) that also required an AA degree. I went back to visit about 4 years ago, and it was down to a 1 school yr program no AA degree, and is now no longer offered. From then to now, I believe 2/3 of the schools are shut...
So true Flipper, and in all fairness I will ad it that I retired at a salary below $100,000, and I was very happy with our arrangement. But in today's world I wouldn't have signed on for what I retired at..
Another side to this story is he had planned on retiring @ 2 years before I did, and had...
I was in-house (35 yrs)CDT, doing fixed and implants- put my foot down to doing removables, about 2 months after I left the boss called to saw basically he didn't realize how lucky he had been. Yes the commercial lab that took over his cases was good, but wasn't able to really go the extra...
As Doris A said, fun going thru these;
so here I am 1984 with my family and son Chris
next 2011, at his graduation from SF State with a masters in TESOL, then he promptly moved to Japan
finally, post retirement with my youngest sis and family, Chris and his wife Yuki, visiting from Japan at...