Our last day at Mulago Hospital and Makerere Dental School came too soon. The second group, Marc, Leilah, Stephanie, and Astin, had their turn in Oral Surgery Theatre where they got to see a neurofibroma, hematoma, and ameloblastoma with part of the mandible removed.
The second group in oral surgery theatre
Starting a new trend with scrubs
An ameloblastoma and part of the mandible removed
Leilah examining an x-ray
In the dental clinic, Jenn and Bianca explained the purpose and use of a rubber dam to seven dental students and demonstrated with a typodont and patients. They went around and helped all the students during treatment. A lot of the students were doing root canals, so Jenn and Bianca helped guide them to the proper use of single tooth isolation while assisting them in the procedure. Dr. Butler also assisted in root canals and demonstrated some of the local anesthesia techniques that she discussed in her lecture the day before (see Day 6).
Bianca demonstrating how to use a rubber dam
Jenn working on a patient in the dental clinic
After lunch, we had our second Lugandan language course and focused specifically on dental terms that we would be using in Kakooge at the clinics. After the course, we said our final goodbyes to all of the wonderful Makerere faculty and staff who have been so generous and kind while we were in Kampala.
This week we have gotten close with some of the dental students and oral surgery residents and instructors, so we set a goodbye dinner date at a popular Chinese restaurant. They had stayed at the hospital in oral surgery theatre all day up to the point where they went straight from the hospital to dinner at 7:30pm. Over a few spills thanks to the lazy Susan and great conversation, the oral surgery team took us out for a night on the town! It was a night to remember and our hugs goodbye didn’t last long enough. We all wish that we weren’t separated from our Ugandan friends by an entire ocean.
Team Uganda!! ♥
Our pal, Sam, met us in the morning to show us around the craft fair aka “bargaining galore”. We can’t wait to show our family and friends the surprises we got, thanks to our bargaining training in Uganda. We came home to our house host, Maragaret, wearing an extravagant ensemble because she had just returned from a wedding.
The craft fair
Margaret and her family coming home from a family wedding
We packed up our excessive amount of bags and hit the road to Kakooge with a quick pit stop at Matuuga friary. We were greeted by the kind friars with fresh spread for lunch that included Matooka, a traditional Ugandan food, fruit, rice, beans and casava. We had an early wake up call at 10:30pm to the sound of the friary’s ginger kitten in pain. Their German Shepherd guard dog reminded us of the crazy dog from The Sandlot. They call him Meeska, when they should really call him Cujo. We thought the friars were joking around when they said they had to go buy kittens every Saturday. We lost a kitten tonight and knew exactly how it went down with Astin as a witness, who might be scarred for life.
Our Ugandan meal at the friary
Too many supplies? Never!
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