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8-5-18 One thing that dentistry taught me: It’s okay to make mistakes & be less than perfect. I still feel bad whenever I fail to do something right.. but little by little this fragile ♡ is getting by pretty nice. Thanks for hanging around! I’m feeling motivated to get back on track.
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5-5-18
Hello Tumblr! Update: I started my summer classes two weeks ago at a new uni. As some of you may know, I left my old school and chose to study at a bigger university. After all inquiries and deliberations, I got accepted at Centro Escolar University-Makati School of Dentistry! Quite a leap for me but I’m trying not to get too anxious
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4-15-18
Goodmorning! Be as you wish to seem, there’s nothing you can’t do. Just put your mind to it, make ways to achieve your goal and life will give it to you.
What’s your agenda for today? Mine’s some light reading and planning.
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4-14-18
Finally up with a new spread (not finished yet) I’m currently reading on prosthodontics and i have 3 books on my TBR for that subject. My progress is too slow but at least i’m up to something. What are you up to these days? Break a leg!
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3-22-18
Orange for autumn
Pharmacology, you were a pain in my heart. Glad that it was over, Sad that I’ll be studying you again next semester.
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3-20-18
Hello everyone! I’m on my 3rd month of break and I’m sad that I’m not as active here on Tumblr than I wanted to. Please do check out my instagram: camillebaybay for more updates or whatever. For now here’s a simple bujo spread! I like pasting printouts first then do the labeling and planning.
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3-20-18
The day i saw my impacted wisdom tooth saying hi. I hope i can get you extracted soon, please don’t cause me pain.
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3-5-18
Love warm yellow & sharpie banana highlighters! This was last year’s August spread when my 1st semester started. I didn’t have time to take pictures and edit that time so I just posted this today. I started buying Muji pens because of aesthetics haha. They were lovely and minimal. They do the job but I’ll still go for Gtec 0.4 for note taking.
Anyways, happy Sunday everyone! I’ll be spending the whole day taking flat lays and editing photos. Goodluck on your quizzes, exams, papers and all. You got this!
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3-4-18
Craving for warm tones lately. I’m planning on purchasing more wood stuff like crates and boxes. Break a leg everyone! Let’s go? Let’s go.
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This semester started as a blur. We had four months of summer vacation since the school year adjusted from June-November to August-December (First semester). That was a long period to enjoy all that summer has to offer but believe me, it was a rush and it came by like the wind. I spent my days slouching around, watching Korean dramas, movies, American TV series and made a little bit of art.
August came. We’re all super excited for the subjects ahead because finally, we can be able to buy cool stuff like typodonts, new handpieces, burs, and micromotor. We’ve been peeking around our seniors doing their works at the simulator. Dental materials, instruments, and supplies are too expensive. By the first and second week, we already had the list of things that we need to buy. I think we spent around 20,000 to 30,000 pesos on one trip to Quiapo Manila alone. Take note, as the months progressed we need to buy more.
Aside from major dental subjects like Restorative Dentistry I, Prosthodontics I, Oral Radiology and Oral Physiology and Occlusion, we’re left with medical subjects like Pharmacology and General Pathology. Those two subjects took most of my studying time for the reason that our professors in those subjects are medical doctors, so what can you expect? We were taught like MDs and that was very grueling for us.
My class schedules were 7 am to 7 pm on Mondays to Fridays. I arrived home at around 8 pm. My one hour journey home was stressful because of the traffic and heat in the Philippines, luckily, I easily fell asleep on my commute. Yehey for power naps! When I got home, I slept first for 2 hours or so and then studied the whole night/morning. I slept again at around 4:30 am and woke up at 5:30 am and repeated the whole cycle again and again for 5 months.
Prelim came. Midterm came. Finals came. I passed all my subjects! I can’t wait to share some more of my school stories, works, notes, and planner spread in this blog.
To dentistry & everything in between,
Camille
03-01-18
Hello guys! Help me decide. To which dental school should I transfer? Enlighten me. Thank you! (Btw, I’m from the Philippines, Cavite specifically)
3-1-18
Sorry for not posting for a while, I’ve been dealing with an art/blog/instagram crisis lately. Posting some content had been terrifying and stressful, I don’t know why. I hope I’ll get better with everything because I can’t wait to write about my last semester, organizing, journaling, my subjects and all.
Since I’m transferring schools, I have plenty of leisure time to do so. Most days, I just sit around and browse the web. But lately, I’ve been reading novels. The last one I read was Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz, my TBR this month are We are okay by Nina LaCour, Looking for Alaska by John Green (reread), Perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (reread), Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone (sorry for reading it just now, I just got stuck) Got all my books from Fullybooked. I’m so thrilled to do all my plans! Wish me luck.
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2-4-17
My latest favorite items for school:
•filed capsule pen case
•muji B5 grid notebook
•muji gel ink pens 0.38 and 0.5
•sharpie banana tank highlighter (not in photo)
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1-19-18
Made the boldest decision in my life so far. I’ve decided to transfer to another school for my 2nd year dental proper. It’ll take another year for me to graduate but I know this will work for the better.
For now, I’m having 4-5 months of vacation. Yey for me.
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8-13-17
Good afternoon. I just finished our first assignment for operative dentistry. Say hello to my first articulator! I’ll call her Mrs. Hudson
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08-13-17
Possibly my last spread because school is back on! (Hoping it’s not) My first week of class was okay, we have to buy alot of requirements for resto and prostho. Thankfully, my mom got my back!
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7-31-17
Deets. Back to school in a week!
Here are my subjects for next sem:
•Prosthodontics I (FPD)
•Restorative Dentistry I
•General Pathology
•Pharmacology
•Oral Physiology and Occlusion
•Roentgenology
This is just the beginning..
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7-31-17
Pastel blue for the last week of the month. I can’t believe this is happening! My 4 months of vacation will finally come to an end :( i hope i can still make my planner spreads despite of my hectic sched, but anyways.. have a great gloomy day!
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07-25-17
been so productive last week! self-five! can you tell i’m obsessed with black and gold theme? it’s bcos im too broke to buy new art supplies! kekeke~
i’m about to start my oral anatomy review, maybe tmr? cos today is mum’s birthday!
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7-22-17
Old spread. That’s my fave star wars character, c3po! Sheldon cooper reminds me of him though
I’m currently halfway with my anatomy and physiology review. Next week i’ll be starting with oral anatomy and histology. Yaaasss!
Have an awesome day everyone. Study hard *
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7-17-17
My current desk situation. Yes it’s messy! I’m reviewing gen ana and physiology, it may come in handy for gen path or pharma.
P.s
3 weeks to go until i start dent 2 proper. I’m getting stressed already
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7-14-17
Who likes amalgam? It’s kinda hard to manipulate at first but it’s really great! Forgot most of the details about it and i need to visit that again before resto I.
Have an awesome day!
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6-26-17
Gold themed spreads!
It is the last week of june, i’m making my plans for july and it includes reviewing and reading in advance for my next sem on dent 2. I don’t know if i will have the will to do it because july is my last month of vacation, but i will do my best to get my lazy self on that study desk
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6-23-17
OINA for life!
This is how i study OINA for head and neck muscles. I know it’s quite tedious but i’m a visual learner, memorizing it using tables is really not my thing. I just make tables for another summary, for example, a table showing the muscles that depresses the larynx, muscles innervated by ansa cervicalis and so on.
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6-23-17
Age of tooth eruption
Throwback to my practical exams in oral anatomy, where we need to identify the the tooth specimen and name it in palmer/fdi/universal system, identify its age of eruption, and the name of the specific part pointed! All of these in just a minute or less!
I posted a softcopy on my dropbox account and here’s a link if you like a copy:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2p1ce4f1h16kn15/srudyblr3.jpg?dl=0
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“We have to pull it. Nothing else is covered.” The dentist would say, looking at me like I should be glad to get even that bit of charity. Tears would fill my eyes as yet another tooth that could have been saved was yanked from my head.
When I was younger, we were riding in my grandfather’s truck when my grandmother tickled me and I broke my front tooth on the dash, leaving the root exposed. The next day, we went to the dentist, who performed a root canal and placed a temporary cap on top. A year ago, I learned that my mother didn’t have dental coverage at the time and that the dentist had provided this service (and many others in my childhood) for free. I can smile confidently because someone went out of their way for me. Although no one should be shamed for the state of their oral health, everyone should have the right to a confident smile regardless of their ability to pay.
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