Day 4 continued

Sad panda. Tony Parker is so good though. I think he needs to spend less time practicing and more time lifting so he can not be so scrawny and block the big guys. 

Oh! And I forgot to mention that the Eugenio's crush's letter mentioned his companero, or Michael who assisted him. She only mentioned him briefly, probably because she doesn't like chinos haha. 

Anyway, forgot to mention dental stuff haha. Michael and Papa Espinoza spent the whole morning trying to fix the fourth chair/air compressor. Everyday we've always had only three chairs working for a period of time. But today we finally got the brand new compressor that we brought along with us to work! So if all goes well, we'll have four chairs working all day tomorrow, so hopefully be able to do more restorations on each patient and in general. Clinic was busy as always, with 15+ people waiting in line before we even opened. 

Today I did an RCT on #8 which was pretty cool. It was my first experience seeing real pulp, which bleeds! I also helped Sami with a composite restoration, which was exciting for him. He got a little discouraged, but who doesn't when it's their first time working with composite :)

In total we saw 36 patients today!

At dinner, Dr. Espinoza let us vote about whether we want to work half day Saturday or not. Our other option would be to go to Valley of Angels to do some sightseeing and souvenir shopping. Dr. Espinoza and Dr. Rima both voted no with a thumbs down to working Saturday--we have a cute picture of them :) But really they have both worked so hard this whole week so who can blame them for wanting to go on vacation early :) We really have been so grateful to have them both on this trip, from Dr. Rima's esthetic restoration tips to Dr. Espinoza's ballsy extraction skills and sooo much more. 

Dr. Espinoza also told us she's going to the mountains tomorrow with the priest to do extractions. She drew out of a hat to pick who would go, and she picked Yoonah twice. We told her she should buy a lottery ticket since she's been so lucky, esp being mafia all the time. Yoonah, Eugenio and Sami volunteered to go with. Can't wait to hear about their experiences tomorrow!

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