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5 apps every BDS student should have!


1. Dental Drugs and Anaesthesia


It's in the name itself.
- Various drugs used in Dentistry with all its details at one place.
- Drugs are given under their respective sub-headings (e.g. viral infections, pediatric dentistry, saliva problems) which are further divided on opening into other classes (e.g. amox, clinda, cipro) which gives further details of the drug like indications, contraindications, dose in adult and child, precautions, side effects, etc. 


TIP 1: 'LA dose Calculator'
You read that right!
Just enter the weight of the person in its Local Anaesthesia Dose Calculator feature and it calculates how much dose has to be administered for that person as per his/her body weight.

TIP 2: Oral Surgery professors love these questions so it comes very handy during your OS postings. 

2. Diseases and Disorders


- This app is a medical app having all the diseases and conditions which a human body generally undergoes.

- A BDS student doesn't need study so many diseases. So you can search the disease that you're interested in and it provides a well formed "notes-like information" on that disease.

- Definitions, Causes, Treatment Plans - everything at one place.

- It allows to add your own notes with these.

TIP: Very handy in revising notes just before exam.

Just make sure you don't do that thing where you study just these notes and don't clear up your concept. NO!

Do study standard books.


3. Notability

Students, teachers, artists, and professionals use Notability daily to enrich their lives.

Notability is an app which is compatible only with iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod Touch.

• It allows you to create very neat and well-formed notes with all availability of color palettes and vibrant colors. These are digital notes in your own handwriting and not something which you just type-in.

• A planner which comes very handy.

• You can import and edit your downloaded dental books very easily. Be it highlighting points, underlining, zoom in/out, write on the e-book, copying a paragraph and paste it to your notes - everything is accessible here.

• It has a very student-friendly interface and helps you stay organized and productive.


4. BONEBOX-LITE

- It gives a 3D representation of a dentition and every individual tooth.

- You can zoom in or out, or click on a single tooth and watch every aspect of it by just swiping.

- A 'boon' for the first year students specially. Very helpful in carving sessions as it gives perfect morphology of all the fossas, margins, number of roots, etc from every aspect of tooth.

- Also helpful in preclinical carving sessions for MDS students.

TIP: How about brushing up your skills by taking the quiz in the app!


5. Dent.in LIGHT

Have you ever rushed with your freshly developed IOPA in search of an illuminating light to click a better picture or just to have a uniform light all over your xray?

Well, no more. This app opens the screen of your phone as an illuminating white light screen for you to have a good interpretation of your xray no matter where you are.

 

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