The White Coat

As of Friday, June 19th, Adam now has the coveted “dr’s white coat”.  In honor of the coat and maybe a little for the students, they have a White Coat ceremony for the 2nd year Dental students.  It is basically the same ceremony they held for the freshmen but it involved a detailed ethics speech, the class pledge and then of course the white coat.  All very interesting, but mostly a traditional ceremony that brought the students and many of their parents and or grandparents together to celebrate a coat that is never worn throughout the length of dental school.  It basically represents the beginning of students seeing real patients as of this fall, instead of the students dealing with the mannequin head.  Scary, if you ask me! Adam’s class is currently studying the use and creation of the ever curious denture!  They are required to make impressions of their fellow students “bites” and turn them into what they call a “cast” of the teeth.  I asked Adam if we could keep some for ourselves…never can have too many sets of teeth around the house, right? Anyways, the ceremony was nice and the refreshments that followed were lovely (chocolate covered strawberries were the best) and spending time with my in-laws was great!

It was interesting to me how attractive my husband looks as a Dr. in his white coat.  We’ll keep it in the back of the closet until he wants something from me, then he’ll have to ask me while wearing the coat!