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complete dentition in perfect morphology as they performed a dental ballet showing all their graceful facets! Wow! It became crystal clear to
us that the role of the ancil- lary personnel/technicians in this teaching hospital was paramount and that their skills were of the highest quality. We concluded that, with their iPads and visual aid tech- niques, the students’ ability to learn the disciplines of anatomy and histology must be greatly enhanced. As if that was not good enough, we were then taken to the old hospital quarters once patrolled by professor Gibson, known affectionately as ‘The Gib’, and offered another ‘dem’. The dem consisted of the completion of a class I filling in a plastic molar within the jaws of the firm favourite – the phantom head of Garnethill! Composite filling material was most professionally incre- mentally placed in the waiting molar and shown to us by yet another indulgence to today’s students – the closed circuit camera link. We were grateful
to Dr Andrew Crothers for this last demonstration but, unfor- tunately, we only had time left for a few words from our spon- sors, Ivoclar Vivadent, who had sponsored the materials and the finger buffet which followed in the modern canteen (no sign of Sadie!). Thanks to all staff in the Glasgow Dental Hospital and School for an absorbing and thoughtful morning.
Day two – evening The evening roll call revealed that 29 colleagues, including partners, had assembled in the premises of the famous Glasgow Art Club in Bath Street. Following a cocktail/ canapé reception, we were treated to an evening of very fine dining – thanks again to the organisational and enterprising skills of Maestro Richard, who ordained that speeches would be limited to one or two sentences. Despite this edict, one male member present was so moved by the occasion that he felt compelled to lead us in two emotional choruses of: “We’re all together again, we’re here we’re here!” By the end of the night, the consensus was
Pictured at the University cloisters are (from left) Mairi McNeil-Lande, Mary Hardie, John Hardie, Richard Day and Diana Day
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