Sunday May 27, 2012
Today was our first day of doing
anything medical and it was dentistry. Not really in our scope of practice but
down here if you’re an American you’re pretty much qualified to do anything.
There is a dentist here from Romania that was kind enough to take us along on
his little bush clinic to do consultations. It was really simple just looking
inside people’s mouths and writing down which teeth needed to be pulled. Most
of the teeth that that people in the village pointed out as being painful
weren’t even teeth anymore they were just roots that were left. The first mouth
I looked in I said “Pull Them All!” They were so black and I don’t think that
there was a whole tooth in her mouth. But in Africa they need all the teeth
they can use so we only pull the ones that are causing them pain. Even though
we didn’t get to do much we were just so excited to get out and interact with
the people.
We are also in the process of learning French
and so far we have picked up a couple of words and are learning the alphabet and
the basics but we hope to be pros when we come home for Christmas. So watch out
America, we are making progress
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