The shadowing today started with something more medicine related: a little overview on how some viruses affect the body. Here in India, the dengue fever, which are transmitted through mosquito bites, are quite common. What makes it dangerous is the fact that the dengue viruses attach themselves to a host cell and enters them. The pathogens multiply inside the cells until the cells burst due to the increased number of viruses inside them. This causes the viruses to escape the cell and attach themselves to other cells (it becomes a cycle). The malaria disease infects a person the same way. Because we cannot kill our own cells, it is only when the viruses are outside the cells that they can be killed. This makes the pathogens more difficult to get rid of, and hence makes the dengue fever and malaria threatening.
When the host carrying a virus dies, so does the virus. So, when immunity increases, the virus's death rate decreases. When this happens, the virus doesn't kill the host and they don't die either, which makes them less dangerous (when immunity increases, a more fatal virus can become like a common cold).
After that, we went through the main course works students take in a dental school year-by-year.
First year:
Human anatomy
Physiology
Biochemistry
Dental materials
Second year:
Pathology
Pharmacology
Oral anatomy
Third year:
Medicine
Surgery
Oral pathology
Fourth year:
Oral surgery
Orthodontal, operative, periodontal, etc. (basics in each dental specialties)
(The first two years (1st & 2nd) mainly focuses on theory while the last two years (3rd & 4th) is more practical.)
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