No Way To Make A Living » materials of work http://nowaytomakealiving.net is a sociological space about work, generating discussion and exchange on what work, paid or unpaid, is like in today’s world Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:38:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Learning to Clean Teeth http://nowaytomakealiving.net/post/527 http://nowaytomakealiving.net/post/527#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:09:19 +0000 Lynne Pettinger http://nowaytomakealiving.net/?p=527 I toured the dental lab at the University of Essex’s Southend campus, and this set of ‘practice teeth’ caught my eye.

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Before students are allowed to touch a patient, they get a set of false teeth caked in fake plaque to hone their scraping technique on. I thought that the hard part would be dealing with the teeth at their dirtiest, but it turns out that scraping is more of a challenge as the teeth get cleaner. This means that the students start with few skills but an easy task. Who makes these dirty fake teeth?

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