You know you want some of this purple tongue

Yes today instead of just 2 drops of disclosing agent, I accidentally squirted like half the bottle (slight exaggeration) into my mouth and oh boy! Talk about a purple tongue!!! A deep, royal purple that still (4 hours later) is still purple! Hailey and I were partners!! wahoo! She was way good. We polished and flossed and then practiced our scaling. Everyone seems so confident with their posterior scaling and I'm still struggling. Anterior is a piece of cake for me but the posterior angles are just impossible for me to get. I can understand them when we talk about them but when it comes to actually putting it into practice, I can't get it. Hmm...hopefully one day. When that day comes I'll probably treat everyone to ice cream or something! So if you are reading this...remind me that I promised you ice cream when I got posterior scaling. ha ha Or we could just go get ice cream now...cuz I just love that stuff!

Great Day!

Today was great!!! We had plenty of time to work on the things we needed to practice. I worked with Denver who was amazing! what a great partner! We used the Montana Jack and the McCalls today. I am still having major difficulties with the posterior scaling. I just can't figure out how to get my angles and adaptations. Denver was awesome to keep letting me poke her. ha ha I'm definitely learning but its a lot slower than I hoped. I do feel really comfortable with the anteriors tho. I think part of my problem may be my poor indirect vision skills. But hey...I still have a year and a half to get it down! ha ha (Hopefully none of my future patients are reading this right now) ;)

Old Hygienist Had a Probe...3-2-3-2-4

We practiced the Barnhart today. Staci was way good with it but I definitely have issues. ha ha I cannot figure out those darn angles. We basically laughed throughout the entire clinic. it was so funny. Before class we had an earthquake drill...but I wasn't here when it started...I was at the institute (my other home these days). When I got back to the Health Building the alarm was going off and I waited outside for like 10 minutes. So I was all...k I'm out here all by myself and no one is coming out...so I went inside to see if anyone was in there. I barely stepped foot in there and this lady was like 5 ft away from me and screaming "GET OUT OF THE BUILDING!" ha ha I was all ok sorry...I'm leaving. And then she screamed again "GET OUT OF THE BUILDING NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" ha ha Holy cow...I mean I could understand if it was a real earthquake...but c'mon...I mean please. Settle down lady. ha ha Gotta love it!
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Gotta love those time crunches

Morning clinics are always interesting. It is shorter than afternoons plus the morning is the guinea pigs as far as how the schedule will work. Today we practiced the intraoral camera and then we had to go and start from HHX and work through the entire OD and scale minus the probe but make sure you get the blue sheet done and make sure you get an OD check before you scale but if we're running behind then just start scaling. Confused?! yep I was too. Well needless to say we had a ton to do before the end of the day. And then we needed to pass off our dental screening PE. ha ha I did fall asleep in Abby's chair today and twitched so hard she thought she poked me. Apparently Abby was so good I just kept right on snoozing. ha ha 3 hours of sleep last night was obviously not enough ;)

Scaling

Today we got to scale. Way fun cuz that is what hygienists do! A few of us got kinda confused on Monday and didn't sterilize our Nebraska scalers so I had to scale with a SH6/7 which was ok. I didn't mind it too much. Tandem was a great patient with only one teeny tiny click of calculus (which I most likely imagined was there). I felt a lot better with indirect vision as well. Its starting to be more natural.

Yay for Clinic

Today was great. We talked about our instruments and how they are named and stuff. I am so excited to start using them all. I lost my 1/2 Gracey for a while which was sadness. I dropped it in my pod and could not find it for the life of me! Well guess where it was...on the roller part of the drawer inbetween the drawer and the wall thing. Hard to explain. ha ha But luckily I didn't have to buy a new one. I passed off the probing PE which was a sigh of relief. I actually like probing. I feel pretty good about it.

It's Starting to Click (and I'm not talking about calculus yet)

Today in clinic we were BUSY! We did everything from HHX to OHI...but it was so fun!! I got to work with Sarah today. She is so stinkin cute!!! We had fun telling each other our made up oral hygiene habits. We made up some pretty bad ones so we could practice teaching OHI.
It was really good to do all of that all in one day because it really started to click how everything flowed together. I'm so excited to get to start working with patients at the end of this semester and the start of Spring.
I'm still questioning my exploring skills and my indirect vision is ridiculous. He he. I have taken my typodont home a bunch to practice and I've practiced on myself with my instruments...but nothing seems to be helping. I'm sure it will all come with practice tho.
OH...I almost forgot to mention. Hailey smacked me really hard today on the bum...she was getting me back from last week which I suppose I deserve. Ha ha...but I think Hailey just wanted to touch my butt. ;) (JK Hails) ha ha I love that girl...she's my BUd.

All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun

The only reason I gave this post this title is cuz thats the song thats playing right now. ha ha today we did the disclosing drops to show plaque. I was actually pretty good. Some stuff on the lingual lower anteriors because of that retainer I have but everything else looked pretty good. It was fun. We also practiced exploring and teaching OHI. I enjoyed it. Its kinda back to what I'm used to. I did lots of OHI when I worked in the office.