Monday, January 30, 2006

An Update on the Life of Eric's Favorite Dentist to Be

Last week was an exciting week in dental school. I did my first amalgam filling-in a tooth! I also did my first sealance in a tooth. Now granted the teeth aren't in a person's mouth, they are mounted in casting material in a little cup but its better than doing a filling in a plastic thing that doesn't even resemble a tooth. I also did my first prep for a compostie filling- in a tooth, which I will fill this Friday in my totally awesome biomaterials class. This week in prosthodontics we are taking impressions and making a stone cast of a set of teeth, that has teeth missing so we can make our first removable partial denture. So exciting.

Josh and I finally got the office room tidied up this weekend. We've only been living here a month... but it looks good. I can't wait until we get our couch and chair, hopefully it will be soon, but the way things go we won't get it until its been 90 days. Oh well at least (according to Eric) we don't have to pay for it until we actually recieve it. We are enjoying our dining room table though.

This weekend Josh and I will celebrate our one year anniversary. Who would have thought we could actually do it??? We want to do something fun this weekend, so if you have any suggestions... we are also looking for a nice restaurant to go to. We thought about getting a last minute deal to Vegas, but the deals just aren't as good as I thought they would be. I'm going to keep looking, so if we don't answer our phones we are probably on the plane...

Supposedly we have plans for Friday or Saturday night with Emily and Eric to look at pictures. I even bribed emily with beef stoganauf but it looks like we might get stood up anyways. Well maybe we will be the ones to stand them up if we go on a weekend trip.

This week looks to be a pretty quiet week. but next week the tests start. I think we have 6 different tests next week. Excellent. I think I'll stay in Vegas.

18 comments:

empeterson said...

we won't stand you up. we're going to a concert of a band of my friend on friday, it starts at 7:30, wanna come with? that's why i don't know if we can do dinner on friday because we figured we'd probably want to spend a few hours with you guys (as long as you want to anyway) so we thought probably on saturday. what day works best for you? we might go home for a few hours saturday afternoon anyway, so we could just come after that. but whatever is fine, we really do want to come because i'm very excited to see your apartment now that you've moved in more!

Matthew B. Novak said...

Why doesn't anyone come visit us? Before May...

Katie said...

i get to go to the dentist tomorrow! i'm so excited! i haven't been in a good year or more. so i just wanted to share my excitement with someone who i knew would appreciate it! (yeah, so i'm a dork...)

empeterson said...

i'll come visit you sometime matt...maybe next spring break. i can't this spring break since i'm going to tennessee

Gina said...

going to the dentist is great. If its only for a cleaning. Or sealance. but cavities suck. I always enjoyed going to the orthodontist too, even though they put me through all that pain.

Matthew B. Novak said...

I haven't been to the dentist in a long time. Probably close to 3 years. Eep.

Gina said...

Matt you better get going. you're going to need like 8 root canals by the time you get there... mountain dew mouth... yuck.

so it doesn't look like we are going to vegas. i thought the tickets would be cheaper. so we are still looking for a nice restaurant if anyone has suggestions.

Matthew B. Novak said...

Go to Buca di Bepo. Or Figlios. Or Di'Amico's.

Matthew B. Novak said...

And no to the dentist. I'll go once I have insurance again. And I don't think I'll need any root canals, because I haven't had problems with me teeth much at all. Definietly some cavities, but even still, not so bad. I have more problems from fillings I've gotten in the past that were done poorly than I have from new problems.

Gina said...

but bad filligs lead to more decay and cavities lead to root canals. :) go to the dental school by you. I'm sure there is one somewhere. they offer good discounted dental care.

i looked at both figlios and di amicos. or maybe ristorante luci. never been to any of them.

Matthew B. Novak said...

Not true - you went to Figlios my senior year. I've heard only great things about Di Amico, and I love their lunch restraunt Di Amico and Sons.

Gina said...

Is that the name of the restaurant that we went to for prom? I could never remember what that place was called.

empeterson said...

or go to forepaugh's, it's this really cute restaurant in st paul that eric and i have gone to a few times. it's good. so what day works best for us to come over?

Matthew B. Novak said...

Yeah, that was the prom place. I don't really remember it, but I'm sure it was pretty good.

Gina said...

Friday still works for us. We could eat around 5:30 or 6. That would give you enough time to eat and get to your concert. Maybe we will come with.

empeterson said...

ok, i think we'll come over for dinner at 5:30, and i won't forget my pictures! are we having beef stroganoff?

Eric Michael Peterson said...

something italian would not be bad either.

Anonymous said...

PLEASE don't be a bad dentist and put mercury in people's mouths! It does cause great suffering. I know from experience.