Re: Dental lab jobs? Germany-->USA ?

From: Dr. Steve (drsteve_at_no-spam.com)
Date: 12/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:12:55 GMT

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 02:30:30 -0500, "Roy Brown"
<roybrown@sympatico.caNADA> wrote:

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>"Vaughn" <vaughnsimonHATESSPAM@att.fake.net> wrote in message
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>| "Roy Brown" <roybrown@sympatico.caNADA> wrote in message
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>| > The disadvantage of this is that one bench tech does not really understand
>how
>| > their work fits into the grand scheme of a prosthesis.
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>| My wife went through a two-year lab technology program and had already
>| passed the written portion of the certification exam when she was hired at a
>| lab. Nice Huh?
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>| ....Actually not. In that school she was assigned fewer cases in the last
>| school year than she was expected to do in a single day at the lab. I am a
>| great believer in education, but that school did little to prepare her for the
>| reality of a lab job. 50-50 real lab/classroom program would have been much
>| better.
>|
>| Vaughn
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>Did your wife study all 5 areas of tech or just one?
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>Not that it makes any difference, but I was doing full production as a bench
>tech before I went to school. While at school I slowed down quite a bit while I
>learned how to incorporate proper theory and techniques into my work. I also
>learnt that if you finished much sooner than the rest, you would be sent back to
>redo your work. I soon learned to slow down and my work became more "acceptable"
>to the instructors.

We had dinner last night with one of my DS classmates and his wife.
During the evening, the discussion of various clinical and "LAB" DS
instructors came up. My friend reminded me of a "LAB" instructor who
was famous for looking at your work, putting it on the floor and
squashing your wax-up with his shoe. My friend was relating how
traumatic this was to him. I commented that I could have cared less.
I would just do another one even faster and offer it to him for
squashing. I was fine with doing this all day. At the end of the
day, the instructor learned to leave me alone. He could wt get me
upset. Plus, he began to realize I could do the wax-up faster than he
could. This instructor left me alone for the remainder of the class.
The trick was not to react the way he wanted me to, and to utilize the
event to improve my skills.
..
Stephen Mancuso, D.D.S.
Troy, Michigan, USA

Writing on a tablet PC,so forgive me if the PC misreads my poor handwriting.

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