Section: Bilateral hand coordination | Student Support

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Drop-In Sessions

The SSO holds student drop-in sessions every Tuesday and Thursday from 12:30pm-1:30pm

Please either visit office 20, fourth floor of the Dental Hospital or email dental.sso@qmul.ac.uk at the time of the drop-in and a member of the SSO will call you on Teams within the drop-in hour.

Drop-ins are short initial meetings (about 10-15 minutes long) with the Student Support Officer.

The Student Support Drop-In sessions are for students who may not have booked an appointment but feel on the day that they could benefit from speaking to a member of the team.

They are run on a first come, first served basis and can fill up quickly, so please aim to arrive for the start of the session.

A few reasons you might attend drop in:

They can be a quick way to get an answer to a question or to get support
To get further information about our services
To be signposted to a different team
To make initial contact for a longer meeting.

If you cannot make any of the drop-in times, please get in touch as we can make other arrangements for you to speak to us (including phone and video call appointments) outside of these times.

Section outline

- Select activity Bilateral hand coordination
  
  If you engage with one or more of the activities below, please could you complete this anonymous form sharing your experiences? https://forms.office.com/r/ZjrAbPiDnG
  
  This is the ability to coordinate your hands.
  
  We need to do this a lot in dentistry e.g. when retracting a cheek with one hand whilst injecting with the other, or protecting the tongue with the mirror when drilling on the lingual side of a tooth.
  
  Try these card exercises to develop your bilateral hand coordination, as well as thumb and finger muscles and your reaction time.
  
  Cutting a shape out of paper also involves bilateral hand coordination.
  
  Try cutting out shapes like these.
  
  If you might like to have a go at baking, kneading bread also involves bilateral hand coordination.
  
  And stringing macaroni onto a piece of thread, sewing or knitting, all involve bilateral hand coordination.